Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious of these was that mergers occurred in waves and affected all industries . |
| 2 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 3 | Extending this aim meant that signs had to be invented when no obvious word — sign equivalent existed . |
| 4 | But it turns out that snails parasitized by certain kinds of fluke ( flatworm ) have extra-thick shells . |
| 5 | Then she put the apple pie into the range oven and slammed the door so hard that coals fell into the grate . |
| 6 | It has already been noted that contemporaries complained of the prevalence of this crime . |
| 7 | It is small wonder that Keynesians stood in perplexed amazement when they tried to relate the new classical theory of unemployment to the unemployment rates which were being experienced in the late 1970s . |
| 8 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 9 | If they did lose sight of the coast , they would watch out for birds and clouds because they knew that birds flew near land and that clouds formed over land . |
| 10 | On Saturdays , after dinner , concerts of classical music were so popular that artists sat on the floor or perched on tables to listen . |
| 11 | This stipulated that products had to be fit for their purpose and meet standards of appearance and finish being free from minor defects as well as safe and durable . |
| 12 | They found that futures tended to be overpriced , that the average size of the mispricing tended to fall over time , and that the absolute size of the mispricing declined as maturity approached and increased as the dividend yield increased . |
| 13 | Mrs Castle 's contribution to this cornucopia of political wisdom and strategic insight was that policies had to be put in their philosophical context to win consent . |
| 14 | In the earlier regime it was accepted that rules had to be general to some extent , and open to change to allow for adaptation to changing circumstances . |
| 15 | Even so the sum of money Minton had donated was so large that drinkers had to be brought in from the street . |
| 16 | Longman did particularly well in the U K , although coeternal markets were difficult and er , sales in the schools markets in er , North America was hard going for Addison Wesley , with U S physical problems restricting the , amou money that schools had to er , had to use . |
| 17 | And what it enables you to do is er to either type in the electoral register or er read it in from the corporation 's disks , er maybe after translation , which is what one of the jobs that EARS did for us , er and you can then tag it with erm er serv erm canvas er returns and telephone numbers and things like that . |
| 18 | There was evidence that opportunities existed for linking the use of the microcomputer with information skills in work done on the SIR project , the availability of software such as QUEST and the potential of links with PRESTEL . |
| 19 | We used to say that DEMS stood for ‘ Dirty Evil Minded Sailors ’ . |
| 20 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 21 | Within two days of the discovery that funds had in fact been diverted , Poindexter was obliged to resign ; North was fired ; and the open-mouthed press descended like locusts . |
| 22 | On the contrary , I found it fairly positive to announce that complaints were down to one ( now doubled ) ; that in recession 1,266 entries were judged ; that entries came from all over the world ; that the system had changed in direct response to comments made by members . |
| 23 | Taken together , these results suggest that proteins synthesized from pre-existing mRNA are required for the maintenance of LTP during the first few hours ( corresponding to LTP2 in the classification shown in Box 1 ) . |
| 24 | Aspects of the expression of the GGF gene presented here suggest that proteins encoded by this gene have important functions in these events . |
| 25 | These new compounds were often specific for a particular kind of leukaemia , and sometimes they were so effective that remissions appeared to be permanent . |
| 26 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |
| 27 | Not , she thought as she dressed unhurriedly on Wednesday , that Piers seemed in the least bothered by any tension . |
| 28 | Researchers in Canada , however , studied college students over five years and found that lefties tended to be born to older mothers . |
| 29 | It is now generally accepted that words prefixed by pett or pit ( similar to the Welsh and Cornish peth for ‘ thing ’ or ‘ piece ’ ) are of Pictish origin , as in places such as Pitlochry ( ‘ stony share ’ ) and Pittenweem ( ‘ share of the cave ’ ) . |
| 30 | The positive correlation between B and the ratings of fixed objects thus means that subjects tended to mistakenly categorise films containing many fixed objects as distractors . |