Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ⅓ of drivers questioned believed that most accidents happen on Motorways . |
| 2 | If the parties had agreed that each consignment was to be separately paid for , the court will normally construe the contract as severable . |
| 3 | Gradually , however , governments came to feel that second-best considerations could not be ignored . |
| 4 | In addition , research on large lexicons seemed to imply that lexicon-based constraints could constrain the identity of a word on the basis of very little phonemic information . |
| 5 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 6 | There was nothing to distract the duchess from the inescapable fact that one 's stomach and hips had acquired that unfortunate texture halfway between a satsuma and a helping of lumpy school custard . |
| 7 | Investigators had concluded that this suitcase had reached Frankfurt on an Air Malta flight which left Malta earlier that day . |
| 8 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 9 | Yet both parties had considerably advanced public expenditure , particularly on social policies , to the point where some economists had argued that this kind of expenditure had become an inflationary force , limiting the scope for new wealth-creating private investment . |
| 10 | A report in the International Herald Tribune of Feb. 1 said that officials had confirmed that six men , alleged to have been terrorists , had recently been executed . |
| 11 | However , in a number of cases the courts began to indicate that some control over subjective discretion might be attained . |
| 12 | Managers had hoped that closer co-operation with the unions would make the committees a place for consultation , not turn them into a battleground . |
| 13 | Surveys had shown that many consumers mistakenly believed that these had been officially approved . |
| 14 | Sample surveys had shown that most people who go to the theatre tend to be middle-class and well-educated , but since so few people altogether actually go to the serious theatre there must be many middle-class , well-educated people who are not theatre-goers . |
| 15 | German businesses had claimed that German disposal laws — among the strictest in Europe — placed an unfair burden on firms struggling with recession and foreign competiton . |
| 16 | In general , most of these commentaries had concluded that domestic rates were probably as fair and efficient a system as any . |
| 17 | Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised . |
| 18 | These surveys tended to assume that certain species were typical of a particular habitat , although there were also studies of the changing proportions of species in differing locations . |
| 19 | Indeed , social morality leaders came to believe that earlier marriages would discourage resort to prostitution . |
| 20 | Long before the appearance of Circular 10/65 a small number of primary school teachers had argued that secondary school selection should not determine the primary school curriculum . |
| 21 | If it was pointed out that in mixed-ability classes too little was now being expected of the very clever child , teachers tended to reply that such children could look after themselves , and required , or deserved , no special consideration . |
| 22 | The researchers did find that volcanic eruptions encourage the destruction of stratospheric ozone by providing a profusion of aerosol particles , which act as catalysts for the reactions that destroy ozone . |
| 23 | An RUC spokesman said ballistic tests had established that three handguns were used in the attack , which also left a fifth man seriously injured . |
| 24 | None had been stillborn , all had been strangled and the police had decided that one person was responsible for all the murders and that person was a woman . |
| 25 | The Puritans had declared that Roman Catholics were ‘ dogs , swine , unclean beasts , foreigners and strangers from the Church of God ’ , who ought not to be admitted to its services . |
| 26 | We asked whether the Russians had requested that these Cossacks should be turned over to them , and Robertson replied in the negative and added " but they probably will soon " . |
| 27 | We asked whether the Russians had requested that these Cossacks should be turned over to him and Robertson replied in the negative and added " but they probably will soon " … |
| 28 | Palaeomagnetic studies on the continents had indicated that continental drift had , in fact , occurred , while more detailed information on the Earth 's crustal and sub-crustal structure had led many to accept the existence of a relatively mobile zone within the mantle ( the asthenosphere ) . |
| 29 | The diocese 's surveyors had said that 100-mph winds could topple it . |
| 30 | One in nine of the women surveyed reckoned that male drivers ‘ think they own the road ’ and nearly three-quarters of them said men were too impatient . |