Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] that [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't need to plead for long ; soon the authorities realised that this determined woman could look after students better than anyone . |
| 2 | The researchers found that this geographical pattern is best matched by that of sugar consumption , in which the leading countries are , in descending order , the UK , the Netherlands , Ireland , Canada and Denmark , and the countries with the lowest consumption are Italy , Yugoslavia , Spain , Portugal and Japan . |
| 3 | The latter authors argued that these early studies were marred by methodological deficiencies . |
| 4 | the authors speculated that this partisan dealignment reflected a continuing erosion of the class-party tie . |
| 5 | Led by Alberta Premier Donald Getty , the western provinces demanded that any constitutional reform package had to include a Senate which was wholly elected and which included an equal number of representatives from each province regardless of its size . |
| 6 | The judges noted that some enticing covers were let down by their contents , and vice versa , but that ‘ accountability and imagination do not demand a high budget ’ . |
| 7 | The original suspended wooden ground floor was entirely removed after penetration of this structure for the installation of the new cross-walls and their foundations showed that some residual sections were badly affected by woodworm . |
| 8 | Policy makers and social investigators assumed that all married women would be dependent on their husbands for financial support . |
| 9 | Concerned , our governments decided that all new cars sold in EC countries from 1992 will have to emit 70% less poisonous exhaust gases . |
| 10 | Overall 16 per cent of carers felt that this reduced contact with their friends and 11 per cent reported reduced family contact . |
| 11 | Up to 1,500,000 people were estimated to have voted , although congestion at the polling stations meant that some 30,000 voters had been unable to vote when the polling stations closed at midnight . |
| 12 | Finding that the Middlesbrough , Shields and Seaham branches had been accumulating funds , the Sunderland officials demanded that any surplus cash should be handed over to them at head office , threatening , according to Wilson 's account , " drastic action " if they failed to do so . |
| 13 | Some parties complained of voting irregularities , such as multiple voting , but foreign observers said that any such irregularities had not been sufficiently widespread to have influenced the result . |
| 14 | Later , Longuet 's aides said that any outside shareholdings in France Telecom should be reciprocal cross-shareholdings and come in the context of specific international projects . |
| 15 | More sceptical observers suggested that some unacknowledged health risk , such as an outbreak of the waterborne parasite , cryptosporidia , had triggered Severn Trent 's action . |
| 16 | Checks indicated that both forward belts functioned correctly except that , for each set , the diagonal strap tended to readily disengage from the lap strap buckle unless under constant tension . |
| 17 | Two separate surveys found that many prepacked sandwiches were being stored at dangerously high temperatures , causing the spread of harmful bacteria . |
| 18 | Surveys of managers at assisted firms indicated that most assisted projects had significant beneficial impacts on output , productivity and profitability and over half led to increases in employment . |
| 19 | A further two camps were later set up further south , in the Tamanrasset region , and on March 22 , detainees ' families heard that some 600 prisoners had been transferred there . |
| 20 | Nell 's fears grew that this living creature that was neither one thing or truly the other , would never understand her . |
| 21 | Design faults meant that each new station required major alterations ; any hope of a production line quickly went out the window . |
| 22 | The success of two trial Training Courses held in June and October at Birmingham and York confirmed the belief that the wider demands being placed on the Honorary Welfare Officers meant that some formal training was essential . |
| 23 | Surrey managers said that many elderly day patients who would normally be carried by non-emergency crews have had to be readmitted to hospital in the past three months . |
| 24 | Government sources said that another 6,000 exiles had applied to return . |
| 25 | This is close to instrumental accounts of the role of the state , but Habermas argued that these economic crises would only threaten capitalism if they were unresolved . |
| 26 | When the Danzig Polish Accord came up for ratification , the Nazis ordered that all Polish Harbour Board officers should be replaced by German and Danzig officers . |
| 27 | It appeared that when this alliance of powerful forces realized that some legalistic gloss over their environmental vandalism was necessary or desirable , not because they wanted it but because the public were increasingly becoming aware of pollution , they actively encouraged the legislature to formulate a bill which created the illusion of controlling corporations . |
| 28 | Soviet scientists admitted that many Soviet lakes and rivers faced ecological disaster , including the Kirov Bays and Volga Delta on the Caspian Sea , the Dnieper and Dniester areas , the Volga basins , Lake Sevan , Lake Issyk-Kul , Lake Balkhash , Lake Ladoga , the Black Sea , the Sea of Azov , and the Caspian and Baltic seas . |
| 29 | The IAEA scientists found that some medical equipment , and certain techniques of medical examination ( such as those used to test for thyroid problems ) , were unfamiliar to Soviet doctors , and tended to produce different results depending on who used them . |
| 30 | Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically . |