Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial study found that despite such state investment , the area was still dominated by large landlords leasing land to sharecroppers and charging high rents . |
| 2 | In this study , we found that in obese patients psyllium moderately but significantly delays gastric emptying of a solid meal . |
| 3 | The evaluators found that in some schools library committees had become moribund , and although this was often blamed on industrial action , some people did seem to have lost interest once they had received and spent their grant . |
| 4 | We argued that for such students practice in the craft of writing would not only be valuable for its own sake but would help them appreciate the achievements of writers of the past and take an informed interest in contemporary writing : |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the ECA report noted that in 1989 food production in Africa had actually grown faster than population , for only the third time in 20 years ( 3.4 per cent , against population growth of 3.2 per cent ) , and that food imports had fallen by 12 per cent . |
| 6 | Direct cortical stimulation ( Penfield and Roberts , 1959 ) and intra-carotid injection of sodium amytal ( Milner , Branch and Rasmussen , 1964 ) confirmed that for right-handed people language function was primarily controlled by the left hemisphere . |
| 7 | The Italians claimed that by this treaty Menelik had granted them a protectorate over Abyssinia . |
| 8 | He predicted that despite recent police success , the Provisionals were well armed and would resort to using bigger bombs in their terror attacks . |
| 9 | Both surveys showed that for many people poverty was a way of life even when they were in gainful employment . |
| 10 | In this study , we showed that in healthy volunteers secretion of gastric platelet activating factor precursors increased under pentagastrin infusion . |
| 11 | But such people forgot that for most Americans television is an inherently incredible medium , and to the extent that in the King case it might be believable , demonstrated merely that Los Angeles police officers were subduing a human who , out of sight of the video camera , might have been threatening these officers with fists , machine pistol or portable Scud missile . |
| 12 | The London Food Commission in its research into 299 permitted additives , discovered that in 25 cases evidence existed of severe toxic hazard . |
| 13 | The solution devised by the jurists is discussed in more detail in the next chapter : they appealed to fides ; decided that in good faith payment of such a request was required ; and inspired the necessary procedural recognition of such requests . |
| 14 | As my legs and arms suddenly felt shaky like they were going to give way , I decided that in this case ignorance would indeed have been bliss . |
| 15 | This competition made conflicts more likely and meant that in any conflict rival groups of Indians would be involved ; those who traded with the French would support them , and their enemies would support the British , so that Indian skirmishing inland played a larger part in the fighting of the 1740s than in previous wars . |
| 16 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 17 | He considered the ordinary meaning of the word rape and concluded that in ordinary parlance rape does not connote sexual intercourse with a woman in the belief that she consents . |
| 18 | The committee 's general ambivalence probably reflected its membership though it did admit that recent investigations suggested that to some extent investment was going abroad because of the unfavourable economic environment at home . |
| 19 | In December 1989 Greenpeace consultants suggested that by 1993 power station emissions would again reach 1980 levels and overall emissions would fall not 22 per cent as the government predicted , but only 10 per cent . |