Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a discussion of Asian security on Soviet television a Pravda writer denied that Soviet initiatives for ‘ pan-Asian security ’ were intended by Moscow ‘ to draw the countries of the region into some kind of Asian-Pacific pact , to make allies of them in its conflict with Washington ’ . |
| 2 | Review of the case notes showed that coeliac disease had not been considered in any of these patients and the diagnoses that had been made were not supported by satisfactory evidence . |
| 3 | Lomponda wa Botende , a former Chief of Staff , expressed his astonishment at the report , and the Defence Ministry denied that any coup attempt had been made . |
| 4 | In the 1920s Edwin Hubble observed that distant galaxies look redder than nearby ones . |
| 5 | As it was , no one thought the universe was changing with time until 1929 , when Edwin Hubble discovered that distant galaxies are moving away from us . |
| 6 | British Rail Maintenance explained that 140 men and women had volunteered for redundancy . |
| 7 | Bernard Baruch asserted that American aid should have been channelled through American businessmen to their European counterparts , so low was his opinion of the economic policies of governments . |
| 8 | In his heart Gaveston knew that young Edward quite liked the clerk ; admired the man 's fidelity and unwillingness to criticise him to his terrible father . |
| 9 | He knew that it would be going to the Ministry of Defence , but the paperwork submitted to the Department of Trade and Industry would state that the purchaser was the Ministry of Agriculture ; Department of Trade and Industry rules said that manufactured goods could be exported to Iraq only if they had no military usage . |
| 10 | Within three days of Lawrence 's succession Hawke announced that federal elections , due by the end of May 1990 , would be held on March 24 . |
| 11 | The revenue authorities maintained that these persons were ‘ male servants ’ in respect of whom licence duties were payable under the Revenue Act 1869 ( 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14 ) . |
| 12 | While not wishing to ‘ suggest that Blackburn ale is too potent for Accrington heads ’ , the football correspondent thought that this kind of thing happened too frequently . |
| 13 | Scientists , publishers , students and government officials meeting last week at a colloquium organised by the research ministry agreed that poor quality produces a downward spiral of falling circulation and a further loss of contributions from respected scientists . |
| 14 | • VAG UK managing director Richard Ide predicted that this month will be seen as the point where car sales in Britain turned and began to pick up . |
| 15 | On May 13 the acting Attorney General Hamad al-Othman said that 45 collaboration cases were ready to go to trial . |
| 16 | Liberal Club supporters protested that these moves would call into question the mandate of elected Civic Forum parliamentary deputies , and would thereby provoke a constitutional crisis . |
| 17 | In a major study of institutionalised delinquents ( delinquents in some form of custody ) in the USA in the 1950s , Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck found that delinquent boys were twice as likely to have a mesomorphic build , a chunky , muscular physique , compared with non-delinquent boys . |
| 18 | The Kilbrandon Committee recommended that individual decisions should be made regarding the best measures for dealing with each child , and that these should be made separately from decisions about guilt or innocence . |
| 19 | The programme planners assumed that most women 's brains came out with the baby . |
| 20 | The Building Research Establishment suggested that more emphasis should be placed on frequent inspection by architects and builders . |
| 21 | Announcing the figures , Environment Minister David Trippier claimed that heavy rains were in part to blame for overloading coastal sewage treatment systems , while the preceding drought meant that a higher density of sewage bacteria had been carried in rivers . |
| 22 | Some aid workers claimed that gang-like violence had been exacerbated by the security-minded approach of the police which stressed control of the refugees at the expense of community organization . |
| 23 | The research team found that conventional parentcraft classes were often unsuitable . |
| 24 | For the DPP Miss Goddard said that mere delay is not capable of being an abuse of the process unless the delay is so great that what is sought by the Crown is no longer the vindication of justice but amounts to oppression or harassment of a defendant . |
| 25 | In 1775 Percival Pott recognized that scrotal cancers rarely occurred except in chimney-sweeps , an observation which has become famous as one of the earliest records of an industrial cancer . |
| 26 | A national constitutional conference opened in Kinshasa on July 31 but was immediately suspended for one week after opposition delegates complained that rural areas were inadequately represented . |
| 27 | Opposition sources claimed that seven people including two children were shot on Nov. 20 . |
| 28 | Rinelde Steeghs said that that move ’ would so infuriate Serbia and the Yugoslav army as to spell an end to the EC peace conference chaired by Lord Carrington . ’ |
| 29 | Industry sources reported that many member states were exceeding their production quotas under the existing agreements , and that total output was actually around 23,700,000 bpd . |
| 30 | On Nov. 4 an opposition newspaper reported that three students had been killed in Oujda and that the police had arrested a number of Algerian nationals in connection with the killings . |