Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opponents argued that teaching other languages , especially those spoken at home , would impede the ability of children to speak and write English . |
| 2 | Hence Durkheim insisted that to understand one set of social phenomena we must see them in the round — in their wider , social context . |
| 3 | ( It is , by the way , exactly the implicit reference to an extraction set that distinguishes English superlatives from forms considered broadly equivalent in some other languages , for instance those designated by the same term " superlative " in Latin . ) |
| 4 | The authors concluded that increased antral gastrin is important in the pathogenesis of an increased maximal acid output in smokers with a duodenal ulcer . |
| 5 | DARWIN believed that elaborate ornamental traits expressed in both sexes might be favoured by mutual sexual selection driven by both female and male mate choice . |
| 6 | One senior consultant stated that taking this hour to reflect on his role as a teacher and trainer was a unique experience in his career . |
| 7 | Many years ago Fathalla proposed that repeated minor trauma to ovarian epithelium caused by ‘ incessant ovulation ’ increased the risk of cancer . |
| 8 | The group estimated that bringing coaxial links into the average British home would cost between £200 and £300 . |
| 9 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 10 | It was what Morley 's reportage implied that aroused such ire , especially the bit about bad choices , and crack perhaps not being the worst of them . |
| 11 | Three groups of plants appeared that possessed such structures and all three have descendants that have survived without much change — clubmosses which resemble mosses but have stiffer stems ; horsetails which grow in waste patches and ditches and have stems encircled at intervals with rings of needle-like leaves ; and ferns . |
| 12 | Gerashchenko warned of the dangers of letting enterprises go bankrupt , but government officials said that approving new credit could undermine agreement with the IMF to restrict the budget deficit to 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 13 | Administration officials said that to achieve that goal , the planes would fly at night and high enough to avoid danger of being shot down and would have no combat escorts . |
| 14 | The court heard that forged American Express and Visa Gold cards were used to run up huge bills at the restaurants . |
| 15 | The Higher Labour Court decided that having extramarital affairs with married women was not a violation of the contract of employment that would justify a dismissal , as this would have the effect of punishing someone for interfering in marital relations , which the German Code of Civil Procedure would not permit . |
| 16 | Widnes , already without Jonathan Davies , Adrian Hadley and John Devereux , lost the fourth member of their gifted Welsh quartet , 16-stone second rower Paul Moriarty , in the opening minutes with a nasty head wound that needed five stitches . |
| 17 | Under the chairmanship of Prince Norodom Sihanouk , the SNC agreed that UN-supervised regional elections in Cambodia 's 20 provinces should be held on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 18 | A scientist at the centre said that finding uncontaminated air in any of the three coffins would be the " Rosetta Stone of the atmosphere " . |
| 19 | However , Johns found that translated Brazilian abstracts tend to follow textbook rules of grammar which favour ‘ consistent ’ use of tense and aspect . |
| 20 | Acting on the advice of the Greek astronomer Sosigenes , Caesar directed that to correct this anomaly the year 46 BC should be extended to 445 days . |
| 21 | Multivariate analysis showed that mean corpuscular volume , bilirubin concentrations , and hypoalbuminaemia were independently associated with laminin concentrations . |
| 22 | Finally , the multivariate analysis showed that mean corpuscular volume ( p=0.01 ) , hypoalbuminaemia ( p=0.01 ) , and bilirubin concentrations ( p=0.005 ) were independently associated with serum laminin concentrations , whereas asparate ammotransferase activity and portal hypertension were not . |
| 23 | The above housemaster felt that to change certain kinds of a teacher 's relationship to children would need a major restructuring of society . |
| 24 | As an exercise in the skills of understatement and of giving the wrong impression without actually lying , Charles thought that took some beating . |
| 25 | Development of this method to cope with other types of phrases would require a larger training set that included these phrase types . |
| 26 | The Minister will recall that during the first Tory recession , Ministers claimed that making many people redundant was a price worth paying to make British industry leaner and fitter . |
| 27 | These were played by a beam of laser light rather than a stylus , and Philips saw that combining digital audio with laser disc technology would be a great improvement upon the Dolby Cassette and the LP . |
| 28 | Turkey insisted that improved bilateral relations with Armenia depended on peace in Nagorny Karabakh and Nakhichevan . |
| 29 | And no one pointed out that at the Chelsea game , the programme had a huge 2-page spread entitled ‘ Stop the Munich song ’ in which Strach , Macca , Speedo , and others suggested that singing this stuff is a dumb thing to do . |
| 30 | While the Treasury was warning of a " continuing mountain of difficulties " for some years to come , the Foreign Office argued that to reduce overseas commitments would only make matters worse . |