Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] that [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but basically you , you would be going in to a village to , to try and encourage land reform with this document or knowing that this document existed . |
| 2 | Amis nudged along his suburban ensemble with typically unhurried assurance , but he did n't seem to notice or care that each character spoke the same jocular bloke-in-the-pub idiom : long , broken-backed sentences that thrive on small qualifications . |
| 3 | ‘ I think that was the worst moment of my life , even worse than realising that poor Héloise had gone after you — and how near the edge she really was . ’ |
| 4 | At this year 's Reading Festival , Smashing Pumpkins came in slightly below par , perhaps due to the rigours of touring , but , a few nights before , in the more intimate setting of Newcastle 's Riverside , they clean blew the roof off with an energetic gig that showed that some members had an appreciation of heavy metal but knew how to drag it breathing heavily into the '90s . |
| 5 | This account provoked an immediate riposte from Postman ( 1955 ) , who objected that no mechanism had been specified to explain the process by which differentiation occurs and argued that associative processes constituted a possibility . |
| 6 | However , throughout 1943–87 men who had never married were at increased risk of anal cancer compared with colon or stomach cancer , Previous studies have reported an association between men who had never married and anal cancer and argued that these findings reflected an association with male homosexuality . |
| 7 | Dearlove ( 1973 , p. 15 ) shows both arguments to be largely false , and concludes that such studies consisted of ‘ unsupported hunches based on partial research ’ , leading to a definite exaggeration of both central control and uniformity of service provision . |
| 8 | He subsequently described this as merely a " rhetorical technique , " and underlined that these remarks did not represent Yelsin 's views or his own . |
| 9 | His interest began when he first opened the garden and found that many visitors wanted seeds from his 10 aquilegias . |
| 10 | In one study , based on an analysis of five high-school textbooks , Fitzgerald took six sets of three samples from each book , and found that individual samples spanned a range of at least ten grades within each book , and the means of the sets of three had on average a range of three grades within each book . |
| 11 | ‘ Meanwhile , I went aboard and found that both engines had failed owing to leaking radiators . |
| 12 | Reception We tuned in to all the broadcast channels with the loop aerial and found that some sets gave a far better picture than others . |
| 13 | The NFPA study tested 7,000 samples and found that 79.8 percent contained no residues , 18.7 percent contained residues within the legal tolerance limit and 1.8 percent had residues above the legal limit . |
| 14 | A human rights report published by the US State Department in late January 1991 criticized the Chinese government 's record , and estimated that 1,000 people had been sentenced to prison or re-education since the Tiananmen Square crackdown . |
| 15 | ‘ They went to the cockpit and saw Mark Schmit sitting in the captain 's seat and noticed that certain instruments had been tampered with . ’ |
| 16 | The results of these surveys are given in the table , and show that 18 sites held Great Crested Grebes regularly in the breeding season and five sites , which were not occupied in 1975 , are probably occupied more often than not . |
| 17 | ‘ I remember this sermon because my father , who never laughed but always kept a straight face when he joked , leaned over and murmured that this preacher spoke so eloquently of Hell , he must have been there himself . ’ |
| 18 | The only other alternative would be for the court to disregard one of the clauses and hold that one party had , by conduct , accepted the other party 's terms and waived its own , including the provision providing that it should not be taken as accepting any other terms . |
| 19 | The duration of exposure of the lower oesophagus to acid in patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus is illustrated in Figure 2 , and shows that both groups had markedly increased acid exposure ( % total time pH <4= 19.2 ( 5.1 ) % v 19.3 ( 4.9 ) % ) , in comparison with asymptomatic controls . |
| 20 | Mr Taylor said he had received dozens of phone calls supporting what he said and claimed that some people had asked to join the Ulster Unionists as a result . |
| 21 | Gilat et al studied 68 cases of systemic amyloidosis affecting the gastrointestinal tract , and showed that parenchymal deposition predominated in the muscularis propria in primary or myeloma associated amyloidosis , while in secondary amyloidosis it was mainly distributed in the lamina propria mucosa . |
| 22 | He has asked for them to behave , and stated that any fans caught throwing coins or taunting Arsenal 's black players will be banned for life from the ground . |
| 23 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 24 | She was happy to be near a door into the street , where she could see passers-by and know that other lives went on in their placid courses . |
| 25 | The Conservative victory under the slogan ‘ Set The People Free ’ that October looked rather hollow when you examined the figures and discovered that more people had actually voted Labour than Conservative . |
| 26 | Though , on looking across at him , and observing that one eyebrow had ascended aloft at what he must consider was the sharpness of her answer , she realised that she was never likely to get an interview if she did not control her exasperation at his evasive non-answers to most of her questions . |
| 27 | This did not , however , stop the question of political marginality and the need to reform existing policies from being raised at all , as can be seen subsequently by the attempts after 1981 to introduce both locally and nationally measures which were meant to address some of the grievances of the rioters and to ensure that further disturbances did not occur . |
| 28 | In fact Salisbury poured scorn on Lord Wemyss — ‘ the great prophet of North Berwick Law ’ — and insisted that interventionist legislation had to be considered on the merits of the measure in question . |
| 29 | Augustus revived the toga as a form of national dress , and insisted that Roman men wore the toga in the Forum and when attending races at the circus . |
| 30 | One of the men brandished a jagged-edge Bowie knife and demanded that 25-year-old Julie handed over her handbag containing £95 . |