Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [that] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile spies in the Red Fort reported the developments to each of Shah Jehan 's four sons , all of whom assumed that the long-awaited succession battle was now imminent . |
| 2 | I suspect that they also had scholarly and dedicated teachers and well read ministers and the encouragement of parents who realised that the only chance their children had of improving their way of life was by having the best education possible which would enable them to compete for the limited number of places which were available in the colleges and universities . |
| 3 | To the followers of the ‘ classical economists ’ , who argued that the industrialized state would make the greatest possible contribution to public welfare if competition were to remain unshackled , the period between the middle of the nineteenth century and the present day has been marked by increasing government interference with the economy . |
| 4 | The classic statement on this question with respect to the person was by Mauss ( 1979 ) , who argued that the contemporary concept of the self is a relatively recent creation , strongly tied to the rise of various legalistic notions of the person in relation to property in ancient Rome and emerging in its modern form after certain developments in eighteenth-century German philosophy . |
| 5 | Sometimes he was roped in to be the MC at these dances , which , for those who know only disco dancing , means Master of Ceremonies , and it was he who announced that the next dance would be a waltz , or a foxtrot , and was not supposed to dance himself until everyone else was on the floor . |
| 6 | This sentiment was confirmed by Saints ' boss Ian Branfoot who admitted that the attacking Town tactics had taken him by surprise . |
| 7 | A rigorous analysis of the mechanisms involved in electromagnetic damping has been undertaken by Hughes and Lawrenson ( 1975 ) , who demonstrated that the single-step response is third-order when the electrical circuit is taken into account . |
| 8 | Clive Milton was one of the few who found that the open life did have its virtues : |
| 9 | Mallarmé 's line which Eliot quoted in 1926 , discussing ‘ l'halluciné ’ and ‘ un élément d'incantation ’ in poetry , ‘ Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu ’ , was reinforced by those anthropologists who found that the fundamental mentality of the tribesmen they studied ‘ no doubt … is transmitted socially by means of language and concepts without which it could not be exercised . |
| 10 | There were those who believed that the new Chancellor lacked the drive and ability to head the government , which would be a far greater challenge than his experience governing West Berlin . |
| 11 | The ‘ Heshang ’ controversy was one important debate which provided intellectual substance for those who believed that the contemporary situation could not continue indefinitely with all its dilemmas and difficulties . |
| 12 | Here there was an additional complication in that Euric and his people were arian Christians , who believed that the Holy Trinity was a hierarchy , in which the Father , Son and Holy Ghost were not equal , while the majority of the Gallo-Romans , including Sidonius , were catholics , and insisted on the equality of the three persons in the Godhead . |
| 13 | The effectiveness of Steyn in such a role was questioned by several observers who noted that the former fighter pilot and close colleague of the President had no intelligence experience . |
| 14 | Australians will be unable to go outdoors without protection by the year 2060 , unless the depletion of the ozone layer over the southern hemisphere is halted , according to skin cancer expert Bill McCarthy , who predicted that the growing danger of cancer would render Australia uninhabitable unless its populace lived in glass-domed cities and wore spacesuit style protective gear for ventures into the open air . |
| 15 | Although those who predicted that the National Curriculum would cause a wholesale shift away from group work are apparently proved wrong by these figures , the matter is not that simple . |
| 16 | The use of negative forms was investigated by Wason ( 1965 ) and Greene ( 1970a ; b ) who showed that the natural function of a negative is to signal denial or contradiction of a prior assertion . |
| 17 | Opposition to the move , at the annual Scottish Prison Officers ' Association conference in Inverness yesterday came from the staff of Porterfield Prison , Inverness , who claimed that the moth-balled unit would not fulfil the role for which it was originally intended — to house disruptive prisoners . |
| 18 | Suggestions of a split were denied , however , by the FMLN leadership , who claimed that the complete halting of the offensive was dependent upon the acceptance of a mediation role by the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , who had appealed to the guerrillas to show restraint . |
| 19 | Three High Court judges rejected appeals by six motorists who claimed that the standard charge sheet was badly worded and therefore invalid in law . |
| 20 | The signing of START came amidst embarrassing revelations from US officials who claimed that the Soviet Union had attempted to circumvent the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces ( INF ) treaty by stationing SS-23 missiles in three Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 21 | Murimuth , who observed that the English army outnumbered the Scots by three to one , believed that the decision not to attack was urged by some of the magnates who were in league with the Scots . |
| 22 | Defence witnesses , including relatives of the murdered victim , who alleged that the three prosecution witnesses were not present at the scene of the crime , were ruled by the judge to be ‘ mentally ill ’ . |
| 23 | On April 14 , the Spanish EFE news agency quoted a statement signed by four division generals , 19 colonels and one air force brigadier , describing themselves as the Guararapes group , who warned that the current situation was " identical " with that in Venezuela , subject of an attempted coup in February [ see pp. 38759-60 ] and Peru , where President Fujimori seized power with army support on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 24 | In a visit in the spring of 1987 , I met a teacher who confided that the externally-imposed testing system pre-empted the use of 30% of her total professional time , and that her own independent judgements ( which she saw as more valuable and inseparable from her natural teaching style ) occupied a further 20–25% of the time . |
| 25 | Also we discovered in conversation that we were not the only people who felt that the usual procedure was a wasteful and gruesome affair . |
| 26 | Employing a night watchman was the solution to his problem , and so without delay Jack was sent to see the wharf manager , who felt that the sprightly-looking man who had served on the Khyber Pass would suit admirably . |
| 27 | That there should have been a Navy League , a Tariff Reform League , and an Anti-Socialist Union filled with Conservatives was an indication that there were many Conservative supporters who felt that the Conservative party was not doing its job properly . |
| 28 | There was a lot of opposition to our work , partly from the Russians because of their Marxist belief in scientific determinism , and partly from people who felt that the whole idea of singularities was repugnant and spoiled the beauty of Einstein 's theory . |
| 29 | Some rather nice experiments were carried out , perhaps in the Forties and Fifties , by Uray and Miller , who thought that the early atmosphere mainly contained methane , water and ammonia , mainly hydrogenated species which were thermodynamically stable , and they thought that perhaps if one put a discharge or if volcanic processes could actually inject energy into such a system and form the more complicated and more energetic molecules required for biology to actually get started . |
| 30 | Of course , in making my selection I am almost certainly falling into the same trap as those nineteenth-century scientists who thought that the anomalous orbit of Mercury was interesting but , in essence , a matter of little concern . |