Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found that neither the new port at Gdynia nor Free City status was of much use to them . |
| 2 | As the living room of his end-terraced council house in Cherrywood Drive , Beith , Ayrshire , became a court , Mr McTear admitted that even the awful price of his former 60-a-day habit could not rid him of the temptation . |
| 3 | While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted . |
| 4 | Dolphins were frequently observed in the nets , and Greenpeace estimated that even the reduced fleet of 20 vessels probably killed some 4600 dolphins during the season . |
| 5 | John Major claimed that neither the British public nor the international community would support the move . |
| 6 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 7 | Further analysis regressing log ( male body size ) on to log ( female body size ) showed that overall the partial effect of hunting method ( the effect once the effect of family size has been accounted for ) was highly significant ( species that were sit-and-wait predators exhibited a higher degree of size dimorphism than species that were roving hunters . |
| 8 | The sad fact is that although the ostensible reason for the dolphin kills was that dolphins were stealing and eating the commercial fish species , examination of their stomach contents showed that only the false killer whales were actually feeding on yellowtail . |
| 9 | A systematic search for the pair of NTPs that led to the formation of stable initiated complexes ( to be shown and discussed below ) indicated that only the simultaneous presence of GTP and UTP could give rise to stable complexes , indicating that these were the first two NTPs incorporated at both promoters . |
| 10 | On my visits to schools as a member of the Kingman Committee , I discovered that often the English department 's description of its syllabus would explicitly state that children should not be taught the definition of grammatical terms . |
| 11 | She also submitted that either the social worker had assessed him or ought to have assessed him . |
| 12 | But he failed to win planning permission because Derwentside Council 's development control sub-committee rejected most of the individual elements , which meant that effectively the whole scheme was refused . |
| 13 | As a result , the Rector , Dr Colin Adamson , was advised by senior ILEA councillors to resign ‘ in the best interests of the polytechnic ’ ; however , the corporate status of the polytechnic meant that only the governing body can remove him from office and it chose not to do so and he refused to resign . |
| 14 | He insisted that only the federal parliament " shall establish the time frames , and not the legislature or political party of any province " . |
| 15 | Way back in Isaiah in thirty fifth chapter , the er , the prophet there gives a little picture , and he uses the illustration , he says this way is so plain , it 's so simple , he said that even the wayfaring man , the traveller , though he is a fool , he does n't need to make any mistakes in it , he does n't need to err in the way , it is so simple , it is so easily understood . |
| 16 | The lesson said that neither the Secret Intelligence Service nor the Security Service advertised themselves . |
| 17 | Quoting the 1989 Constitution , Aikhomu said that only the future president had the authority to proclaim the holding of the first session of the legislature . |
| 18 | Piliso said that only the National Party rejected the proposal for a constituent assembly , and that the government feared the participation of the masses in deciding the constitution of a future South Africa . |
| 19 | Chairman of ITV Sport Greg Dyke said that now the new league may not become the major force it could have been . |
| 20 | This was the same evening on which Johnson wryly said that now the Hanoverian King had given him a pension , he could hardly drink Stuart health with the wine thus bought . |
| 21 | This suggested that either the NF-L gene carries a developmental specific element in the gene or that a known brain-specific element ( in the first intron ) of the Thy-1 gene has a dominant effect . |
| 22 | The model developed in chapter 4 suggested that only the unpredictable component of aggregate demand would cause output to deviate from its natural level , and the more unpredictable it was the less effect it would have on the deviation of real output from its natural rate . |