Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous discussion has emphasized that black workers were recruited for particular types of jobs in specific sectors of the British economy . |
| 2 | The Committee to Protect Journalists ( CPJ ) has reported that more journalists were killed carrying out their professional duties in 1991 than in any other year since the formation of the committee ten years ago . |
| 3 | Purseglove has argued that Indian crops were known in China 4000 BP and African ones in India and vice versa a thousand years later . |
| 4 | The right hon. Gentleman has said that those forms were filled in arbitrarily and that they have no substance . |
| 5 | An investigation into drug dealing at the illegal hippy festival held last bank holiday weekend has revealed that dangerous drugs were openly on sale . |
| 6 | Sir Patrick said detailed analysis has shown that 18 settlements were made in cases where alleged assault inside RUC holding centres was a factor . |
| 7 | He thought , not for the first time , that a system which required ministers to run their departments , fulfil their parliamentary responsibilities , and spend the weekend listening to the grievances of their constituents , might have been designed to ensure that major decisions were made by men and women tired to the point of exhaustion . |
| 8 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |
| 9 | The spokeswoman said : ‘ The Russian embassy in Baghdad has confirmed that both men were sentenced on June 6 to eight years imprisonment for illegal entry . |
| 10 | McKendrick has suggested that such earnings were able to add a significant number of extra families to the " middling ranks " earning above the £50 a year bottom line suggested by Dr Eversley . |
| 11 | We know very little of what went on in these places , from either archaeological or historical evidence , but R. H. Britnell has suggested that most markets were ‘ closely related to the growth of local trade between food producers , craftsmen and tradesmen ’ . |
| 12 | Sitting there in the Cathedral Close in the weak spring sunlight , trying to grasp the enormity of the events we had lived through , we gradually came to accept that these things were now in the past , and the war was really over . |
| 13 | At home , money meant food or perhaps , if one had saved a lot , more land , but here the shops were full of the most amazing commodities and getting money at the end of the week seemed to suggest that these things were within one 's reach . |
| 14 | Already towards the end of January , when it was made known that German troops were encircled in Stalingrad , the unease registered in numerous reports merged into critical comment expressing fundamental doubts about the necessity of the war with Russia and now also about the truth of Hitler 's explanations for the war . |
| 15 | We 'd hoped that such irritations were behind us , but then they started taking toothpaste and soap away from us after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 16 | THE HISTORY of belief in the supernormal over the past hundred years is studded with the names of famous illusionists who have sought to prove that much-vaunted miracles were nothing more than conjuring tricks . |
| 17 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 18 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 19 | As we began to talk I began to realize that these people were just like me . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Dr Dunstaple was gradually coming to realize that other things were missing . |
| 21 | If he had been a little more aware , he would have realised that licensed dealers were largely excluded from the square mile , both physically and psychologically . |
| 22 | I personally needed to know that these ideas were not wrong . |
| 23 | The CFTC might well have felt that desperate moves were necessary to remind those in authority that it still exists . |
| 24 | We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! |
| 25 | They would certainly have thought that such events were unlikely to happen for millennia to come — if at all . |
| 26 | We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images . |
| 27 | For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred . |
| 28 | Mr Justice Brooke ruled that Northumberland health authority should have specified that three staff were necessary . |
| 29 | As for Louise , strolling beneath the shade of her white silk parasol , she had remained so cool and chaste that she had scarcely deigned to notice that young men were admiring her . |
| 30 | We decided to begin our search in the deep midwaters on the basis of the results mentioned above , even though , at first sight , biological considerations might have suggested that inshore waters were more promising . |