Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in my heart I knew that another man could . |
| 2 | With practice I learned that those flames instantly settled down to a proper blue flame . |
| 3 | The Partnership accepted the task as a priority for the school and helped develop and deliver a programme which ensured that all students received thorough preparation , had an appropriate placement , and participated in a thorough de-briefing , thus providing a QUALITY work experience . |
| 4 | I am on the radical wing of the ‘ leave-them-alone ’ camp and spurn the US Army research which proved that 80 percent of carefully burst blisters reattach to the skin over time . |
| 5 | a redesigned department which ensured that all staff were in contact with each other — not hidden in offices or separate sections of the department . |
| 6 | Rivalry persisted through the 1860s and '70s and in 1881 Gaze produced a pamphlet which claimed that certain companies were apt to ‘ monopolise powers which are the property of all Tourist Agents , and in the development of which we ourselves have borne so important a part ’ . |
| 7 | Classified by Japanese officials as " reactor grade " not " weapons grade " , the shipments had nevertheless triggered concern among critics of nuclear proliferation who warned that some countries had fabricated crude nuclear devices from plutonium of the kind Japan was shipping . |
| 8 | However , these defects were largely solved by Litzenberger and Ramaswamy who concluded that risk-adjusted returns are higher for those securities offering higher dividend yields . |
| 9 | Many others , however , agreed with the sole practitioner who felt that unlimited liability ought to be accepted as part of the ‘ burden and responsibility of being a member of a profession ’ . |
| 10 | Despite this high figure they concluded that oesophageal manometry was beneficial in patients with chest pain , dysphagia , and those in whom achalasia is suspected . |
| 11 | In my own study it seemed that young women are becoming more critical of ‘ traditional ’ gender roles , but young men are not . |
| 12 | In many respects it seemed that feminist aims regarding women 's rights in the public sphere had been achieved . |
| 13 | He waited until their faces reached a satisfactory degree of indignation then , over the next half hour , his low north-country voice spun out a story which revealed that political interests in the United States had channelled money through MacQuillan 's companies to enable him to acquire the Post ( or any other major British newspaper which came on the market and could be turned into a propaganda tool ) . |
| 14 | Under an act of George I weavers could take their complaints to magistrates , but Temple himself admitted that such recourse would mark a man and reduce his prospects of obtaining work . |
| 15 | The high church Anglican theologian Eric Mascall , writing in response to a report of a Lambeth subcommittee which commented that medieval understandings were based on false biological views , expressed himself thus : |
| 16 | Just a month later however , this great work was threatened by an advertisement in the Mercury which stated that another plan of Manchester & Salford was to be on the market and carried out by J. Oldham . |
| 17 | The decision , forecast by The Scotsman last month , followed intense lobbying from property , development and lending groups which feared that huge areas of land would be blighted . |
| 18 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 19 | The trend towards a more nationalistic variety of communism , independent of Moscow and resting on the approach of mass mobilisation advocated by Mao , inspired those Korean communists who felt that this approach could prove valuable for their own party in the future . |
| 20 | From this question we discovered that young men are more likely to regard being like their friends in behaviour and appearance and physical attributes as important , whereas young women are more likely to value qualities in the personality of their friends , like honesty , cheerfulness and so on . |
| 21 | In all directions it seemed that scientific investigation was triumphing over ignorance , and scientific analysis replacing rule of thumb . |
| 22 | As Owen 's lawyer , I can promise you that I 'm going to sue the socks off the drunken driver who caused that terrible accident , ’ he vowed firmly . |
| 23 | She was absolutely terrified of creating her own image in case she found that some expanse of water found its way into the picture . |
| 24 | A notable convert to their point of view was Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times who argued that American withdrawal from the South would not produce a takeover by the North . |
| 25 | The chairman who ventured that mild criticism was well-placed to do so . |
| 26 | But at trial she said that this admission had been falsely made in order to protect her son . |
| 27 | Lord Gardiner himself thought that political views ought not to affect judicial appointments at all , and he pursued this policy during his period of office as Lord Chancellor ( 1964 ) . |
| 28 | Though Booth 's study did produce categories of poverty which showed that many people who were in employment were still below the poverty line , and Rowntree 's work was memorable , not only for the detailed way in which he examined the financial needs of households , but also for his concepts of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ poverty and the ‘ poverty cycle ’ . |
| 29 | However a Bratislava solicitor found an article which maintained that all items behind wallpapers are fixtures included in the sale , and not furnishings . |
| 30 | Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 was discredited by the jury acquittal of the editor of the " Sunday Telegraph " for publishing a confidential army report about the Biafran war which indicated that ministerial statements in Parliament were false . |