Example sentences of "they [vb past] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of all this they realised that to complete the measurements on the range of electrodes and to see how they depend on the other experimental conditions would take nearly three years . |
| 2 | They argued that to avoid this it should be placed under trade union control . |
| 3 | They recommended that grants for land improvement and drainage should be withdrawn from Section 43 areas and that all capital grant schemes in the LFA should be modified to encourage a wide range of conservation measures . |
| 4 | They found that moving traps were indeed consuming energy — cells used up 29 per cent of their ATP in the three seconds of closure , Venus fly-traps clamp down on their prey as a result of irreversible cell expansion , which is itself caused by the activation of wall loosening enzymes by a lowered p H in the cell wall . |
| 5 | They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 6 | They found that conditioned responding transferred readily from one context to another . |
| 7 | They found that field social workers were on the whole critical of the residential experience . |
| 8 | A study by Peters ( 1988 ) showed a similar result comparing subjects ’ memories for a nurse giving them an inoculation with that for a researcher subsequently encountered , they found that face recognition was impaired for the nurse , another result suggesting memory impairment for an arousing event . |
| 9 | They found that mixing each cubic metre of soil with 3 kg of Agrosoke reduced by 65 per cent the amount of water needed to grow sunflower plants . |
| 10 | His teenage resolution was shared by many young refugees , though when it came to offering their services they found that joining up was not as simple as the recruiting posters had led them to believe . |
| 11 | In a survey of dreams reported by university students , they found that dream images which were highly vivid also tended to be " surprising " , and at the centre of the visual field . |
| 12 | In the opposite case where the market value was greater by 15 per cent or more than the theoretical value of the P/E ratio they found that shares underperformed the market . |
| 13 | They reported that recalled birth weight was accurate to within 100 g in three quarters of cases and a similar proportion of reported gestational ages were accurate to within one week when compared with hospital records . |
| 14 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 15 | But , for all that effort and the manner in which they attacked from the kick-off , I believe they deserved that try . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , they did not forget the main object of their expedition and kept a careful record of all the plants found , though they commented that had the journey been made a month or two sooner , they would have found a greater number of rarities . |
| 17 | They claimed that drinking the tea gave them an intense , trip-like experience . |
| 18 | Firstly , they showed that improving the vitamin A intake of at least some populations of young African children can substantially reduce their mortality . |
| 19 | They showed that disputes between the males were some what commoner than had previously been reported . |
| 20 | Some seemed quite certain of a mystery train — one they heard that came and vanished but was never recognised . |
| 21 | No Elsie I did not really believe that but my heart was pounding I can tell you when they pulled that net in . |
| 22 | But they appreciated that getting wet was all part of the thrills and spills . |
| 23 | But they stressed that bringing civil servants to Canary Wharf would not necessarily save the project and added that the Government wanted Canary Wharf or any future owner to pay the £400m needed for an extension of London Underground 's Jubilee Line to Docklands . |
| 24 | They feared that to alienate the Grand Prince , who had a wide measure of control over appointments to the hierarchy , would leave them vulnerable to the intellectual vigour of the ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 25 | I think they felt that having survived so far , they were now leading charmed lives and nothing could get them . |
| 26 | They felt that playing around was ‘ worse in the third and fourth forms , not so bad in the fifth year ’ , and that unruly pupils were ‘ not in the O level group ’ . |
| 27 | Multidisciplinary assessments are one of the principles of care programming , but staff indicated that they felt that increasing the number of meetings and the range of participants could be a disadvantage . |
| 28 | They knew that had been when |
| 29 | They knew that cut backs in education would force closures . |
| 30 | Afterwards , he becomes loquacious about the Stoics , ‘ men who took what came , because they knew that grumbling made no difference . ’ |