Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1969 , after Conservative protests had been disposed of that Parliament was being asked to reach a decision at an unnecessarily early stage ( a General Election was in the offing ) , both Houses agreed that the 1965 Act should not expire . |
| 2 | Most contemporaries realized that the two aspects were intimately connected . |
| 3 | Next day the Germans found that the one-time schoolmaster and lieutenant of 2 Commando Philip Walton , and maybe one of the corporals from Pritchard 's squad , had laid charges on the bridge , but this brave effort had been foiled by lethal fire at close range . |
| 4 | The opponents maintained that the secondary market serves only a tiny fraction of American artists , most of whom are already quite rich . |
| 5 | There had always been cities providing a variety of religious , political , and commercial functions but few contemporaries doubted that the industrial city of the nineteenth century was a new phenomenon . |
| 6 | It became clear to Truman as the months passed that the Soviet government was taking little heed of these threats and that differences over the composition of the Polish and other East European governments , over the fate of Germany and a host of other issues , remained as wide as ever . |
| 7 | But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect . |
| 8 | Women factory inspectors agreed that the less work women did in factories the better it would be for their home life and children 's welfare , but they were also forced to admit that working women usually needed their earnings . |
| 9 | MacLeay 's view of natural relationships presupposed that the living world is constructed according to a rational plan . |
| 10 | Slotting the survey findings together , the authors found that the total number of landfills in America might be anything from 4,462 to 10,467 . |
| 11 | On Jan. 29 the Arabic-language daily al-Quds reported that the Saudi Justice Minister Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Jubair had ordered the removal from office of Shaikh Abd al-Muhsin al-Ubaykan , president of the main court in Riyadh . |
| 12 | Cripps and his supporters objected that the Labour leadership had failed to absorb the lessons of 1931 and were not Prepared to deal with the inevitable " sabotage " of the Labour programme by capitalist interests . |
| 13 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 14 | If the court can spell out an implied agreement that all parties recognised that the continuing partners would be entitled to carry on the practice after the departure of an outgoing partner , the right to a full dissolution will not be available , but the outgoing partner will have the benefit of s43 of the Act and the continuing partners will , after all necessary accounts and inquiries have been taken , be obliged to pay him the value of his interest in the firm — see Sobell v Boston [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 1587 . |
| 15 | A lieutenant filing past with seventy-five mud-stained survivors of the decimated 2nd Zouaves noted that the new general was unable to hold back his tears ; it was a detail he remembered all his life . |
| 16 | This may simply be because subjects assumed that the current study was essentially about risk and expected to encounter some particularly dangerous situations . |
| 17 | The Spaniards and Frenchmen claimed that the British victory in the South Atlantic had been a propaganda triumph over vastly inferior conscript forces , further demonstrating our need to re-establish our reputation overseas , which had been tarnished by the loss of Empire . |
| 18 | The big scoreboard behind the stands showed that the professional side of the tournament had not been without its drama . |
| 19 | Sequencing of the PCR fragments confirmed that the largest PCR fragment observed in the U251 mRNA included type III repeats AD1 , 11 , 12 and flanking type III repeats 10 and 13 sequences . |
| 20 | Improved order intake and increased capacity usage over the past three months confirmed that the tentative pick-up seen in the previous quarter was not an aberration . |
| 21 | Representatives from two schools commented that the Minor award was not enough to revitalise the whole school . |
| 22 | Manners replied that the Select Committee had found no difference between Gothic and Classic , ‘ as regards economy , commodiousness and public utility ’ , and his choice of the Gothic design was governed ‘ by the site on which the Foreign Office was to be placed ’ . |
| 23 | Radiometric and spectrometric investigations of such waves indicated that the Cytherean source region was at a temperature of about 670 K. Moreover , radio waves at such wavelengths can readily traverse clouds and atmospheric gases and it was readily established that the Cytherean source region lay well below the cloud tops and was very probably the surface of Venus . |
| 24 | At least a section of the Jews felt that the only answer was a holy war . |
| 25 | The DUP and Vanguard had intended to boycott the local elections , saving their effort for the more important Assembly elections , but activists in both parties thought that the earlier contest should be fought , if only to make use of the free publicity that would be created and to have the advantages of a trial run and an early opportunity to canvass for the more important second elections . |
| 26 | Then , inconsistent test methods meant that the same cooker could be rated as 800W by one manufacturer , and 650W by another — little help when trying to follow instructions for heating convenience foods . |
| 27 | Many authors felt that the best way to structure diabetic care in general practice was for general practitioners to set up miniclinics in order to create the ‘ protected time ’ needed for assessment of a complex condition . |
| 28 | By the time of the Chicago conference , ‘ many nations felt that the primary objectives of international airlines were political and military and that economic and other objectives were only of secondary importance ’ . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , Napoleon 's victories over the Prussians meant that the German states were opened up to foreign and revolutionary influences . |
| 30 | When eighteenth-century gentlemen complained that the landed classes were being taxed to the gain of others , it was not the poorer classes they had in mind . |