Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it is understood that cells are influenced by fields and not currents of electricity , as the effect is minimal . |
| 2 | But generally it was felt that mothers could be relied upon to exert themselves on behalf of their children and that mismanagement resulted more from ignorance than from vice . |
| 3 | During the inter-war period what trade union support there was for family allowances ( generally it was feared that allowances would lead to a wholesale reduction in wages and reduce the bargaining power of male workers ) , was based on the hope that they would lead to a withdrawal of married women from the workforce . |
| 4 | But yesterday it was revealed that lawyers for the survivors , victims ' families , the airline , Boeing and three companies that made the engines have agreed payments will not be restricted . |
| 5 | Also it was hoped that investors ( eg pension funds ) would put their money into property for letting , assured of a reasonable return . |
| 6 | Until now it was assumed that sites deep underground provided a stable environment for buried waste . |
| 7 | Here it is hoped that pupils will learn to realise that there are difficulties involved in growing up and taking responsibilities for their own decisions . |
| 8 | Then I was told that girls were being taken on the railways so I had to go to Ipswich and take two more exams and started work as a booking clerk at Needham Station when I was sixteen . |
| 9 | If a method can be devised of enabling employees to acquire and sell shares in an unquoted company , and benefit from the increase in value of those shares over the employee 's period of ownership , then it is perceived that employees will wish to participate in the share capital and growth of their employing company and will be motivated to work to increase the value of the business . |
| 10 | Because gene frequencies are generally presumed to change in phylogeny , then it is suggested that genes must be doing the real work in ontogeny . |
| 11 | Then it was discovered that birds such as pigeons and swifts have difficulty navigating if their sense of smell is damaged . |
| 12 | Until recently it was reckoned that men and women on average had sex with 6 different people in their lifetime . |
| 13 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |