Example sentences of "[vb past] that [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |
| 2 | Cartwright and O'Brien found that doctors spent more time and discussed more problems with middle-class than with working-class patients . |
| 3 | Another US study found that firms averaged 2 patents per $1m of own R&D , and 0.6 patents per$1m of rivals ' R&D , suggesting that own and rivals ' R&D are complementary ( Jaffe , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | For example , Tenopir found that Georef assigns more subject headings for each publication than GeoArchive , and so has higher recall , but this does not mean that searches will produce more irrelevant items . |
| 5 | As above , no comparative data were given but we found that cuckoos fledged more chicks both per nest and per egg laid at Santa Fe than at Guadix ( Table 1 ) . |
| 6 | While some investigators found that oxygen gave direct symptom relief , others suggested that any benefit was mostly the placebo effect of air on the rhinopharynx . |
| 7 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 8 | A survey of 56 different painkillers conducted recently by Britain 's Consumers ' Association found that instructions accompanying most products were inconsistent , inadequate and unclear . |
| 9 | The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 . |
| 10 | When we looked at the additional explanatory power brought to these models by information about the worker 's family responsibilities we found that parenthood had little effect on men 's labour force participation or pay . |
| 11 | He found that coyotes produced irregular breaks with angular edges , and overall 60 to 80 per cent of the bones in coyote scats were not broken . |
| 12 | Loper is following up recent research by several scientists , particularly H. Weber and colleagues of the Institute of Toxicology in Zurich , Switzerland and John Brooker at the University of Adelaide , Australia : Weber found that dogs fed massive doses of one type of dioxin , TCDD , detoxified the chemical with the liver enzyme , cytochrome p 450 mon-oxygenase , and Brooker used chick embryos as a source of the enzyme to track down the messenger RNA responsible for producing it . |
| 13 | Katz et al found that patients given epidural fentanyl shortly before thoracotomy reported less pain and used less supplementary analgesic afterwards , while others found no equivalent effect of epidural bupivacaine and morphine before major abdominal surgery . |
| 14 | Certainly , in the group discussions ( Appendix II , section 3 ) , we found that people used this type of credit because of the ‘ service of someone coming to the house to collect ’ even when they were aware of the high cost involved . |
| 15 | The Government Social Survey found that people preferred non-industrial areas to industrial regions . |
| 16 | In general , however , they found that consumers took better care of appliances on hire purchase and that servicing costs were lower . |
| 17 | He found that glass containing these metals was useful for sun-glasses . |
| 18 | In a study of over 1,000 second-time mothers who had one baby by Caesarean section , she found that 37% chose another Caesar . |
| 19 | Thorpe J. found that W. had sufficient understanding to make an informed decision but held that he had jurisdiction to authorise medical treatment without W. 's consent , and he concluded that in view of the medical evidence he should make the order sought . |
| 20 | He also investigated the effects of the uptick rule when the future is underpriced , and found that arbitrage involving short positions in shares was less profitable and much riskier than arbitrage with a long share position . |
| 21 | But a Home Office study by Southgate ( 1982b ) reported that officers saw little value in such training : they quickly forgot the content and saw it as no substitute for direct experience or the advice of senior colleagues . |
| 22 | The story is much the same in all four cities : social conservatives trying to push their ideas through school boards , parents frustrated that schools have fancy ideas but do n't seem to teach children to figure , write or read . |
| 23 | The jeep was gone and the dust had settled , surely the driver realised that dust-raising meant instant reaction from the Germans with shelling and heavy mortaring of the area and the inevitable casualties . |
| 24 | In April the Environmental Secretary Michael Howard announced that businesses facing higher rate bills as a result of the introduction of the UBR in 1990 would have their rate increases frozen in real terms for the second successive year . |
| 25 | Lee also requested that Russia undertake legal guarantees to repay the US$1,800 million which South Korea had provided , or had committed itself to provide , to Russia and the other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) in 1991 . |
| 26 | Bourgeois Republicans and right-wing Socialists like Prieto , Minister of Navy and Air in the Largo Caballero cabinet , and Dr Juan Negrín , Minister of Finance , argued that collectivization caused economic disruption and would alienate the lower-middle-class and better-off peasantry from the Republic . |
| 27 | Ken Mentle argued that Trevor needed psychiatric treatment more than another chance in an Athletico shirt . |
| 28 | The signatories of the Appeal argued that women had adequate opportunity to make their influence felt in local government . |
| 29 | He argued that inventions have two parts : the product itself , which must be ‘ startling , unexpected and come to a world which is not prepared ’ , and the ‘ gestalt ’ in which the product is embedded : |
| 30 | For example : Law 2 argued that urban areas will absorb the population of first their immediate rural areas and then even the remote areas ; Law 6 stated that urban dwellers are less migratory than rural inhabitants ; and Law 5 argued that migrants proceeding long distances generally migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |