Example sentences of "[vb past] that they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 2 | The monopolistic merchants found that they had insufficient capital to advance the loans required ; there was much evasion of the monopolies ; and the export trade itself was disrupted by the crown 's impressment of merchant shipping for war , and its political pressures on Flanders . |
| 3 | Harvard 's experiments on bird tumours , for example , showed that viral insertion increased the expression of the myc gene — and Croce and his collaborators reported that they found increased expression of myc in Burkin 's lymphomas ( Science , vol 21 8 , p 983 ) . |
| 4 | Trade unionists knew that they could only achieve a limited level of their ambitions through industrial means and they realized that they needed working class MPs to support them in parliament . |
| 5 | Alliance partisans admitted that they read anti-Alliance papers but they claimed their papers were less pro-Conservative than Conservative partisans ' papers and less pro-Labour than Labour partisans ' papers ( Table 6.6 ) . |
| 6 | Those who said they never revealed that they have cystic fibrosis were more likely to be employed ( 64% ( 110/172 ) v 53% ( 311/585 ) , difference 2.5% to 19% ) , than those who revealed their cystic fibrosis at job interviews , but the questionnaire did not ask about responses to confidential medical questionnaires . |
| 7 | He believed that they had greater capacity to do so than previous generations and hence would be less in need of support from the state when they reached old-age — there was therefore no need to establish complex insurance machinery . |
| 8 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
| 9 | Most of the disabled professionals believed that they had more knowledge of disability than their colleagues . |
| 10 | Miss Chadwick added that they sing two services a week and in addition perform larger choral works in the concerts they stage once or twice a term . |
| 11 | He also noted that they had narrow bodies , as the B.E.T . |
| 12 | We noticed that they touched each other all evening , shoulder to shoulder , knee to knee , nothing obvious , although I did see O raise Boy 's hand to his lips once , and later I saw Boy rest his head on O 's knees , just lay it there for a moment like a dog . |
| 13 | c ) Life-style : respondents in the single girl upper socioeconomic categories indicated that they achieved facial cleanliness with lotions and cotton wool because it is the only natural thing to use . |
| 14 | For example , some GPs in our study indicated that they want all prescriptions to be entered on patient records , ’ Mr West said . |
| 15 | They discovered that they had one area of 4 m 2 and two of 3 m 2 . |
| 16 | Quite by chance he heard that they had another depôt off Mitcham Road , West Croydon and on visiting that found quite a different state of affairs . |
| 17 | Eventually the family decided that they needed two contracts , one between James and Avril , the other between Anne and her parents . |
| 18 | THE simultaneous publication by national newspapers of a common code of practice and declaration of principles was postponed last night after the chairman and editors of Express Newspapers decided that they needed more time to examine the proposals . |
| 19 | Although , as Beaumanoir stated at this time , the magnates were ‘ sovereigns within their baronies ’ , they were supposed to execute the crown 's ordinances — which often meant that they anticipated royal legislation by legislating in their own name for their own domains . |
| 20 | These were ‘ renewals ’ which in theory meant that they replaced old coaches , possibly ones dating from the start of the ‘ narrow ’ gauge . |
| 21 | Short-term contracts , performance review and performance-related pay for managers meant that they had little option in accepting finance driven agendas ( Harrison et al. |
| 22 | The Lollipop timetable of one night stands meant that they visited seventy-two venues in twelve weeks ; although they did not venture further than St. Louis , it was exhausting and afterwards they could remember very little about each town . |
| 23 | Irrationally , as a man about to be beheaded notices every scratch and stain on the executioner 's block , Rincewind saw that they had overlarge tails that were bluish-white and , he realised , throbbing alarmingly . |
| 24 | It was a hand sort of saw that they did this ripping of the wood with . |
| 25 | The same can also be said of physical science : despite the apparent breadth of the course , students felt that they had little control over their learning . |
| 26 | The threat from the employers was paralleled by that from disgruntled seamen or former agents of the union who felt that they had personal grievances against Wilson or cherished ambitions to establish seamen 's organizations of their own . |
| 27 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |
| 28 | • 53% felt that they had insufficient information on natural childbirth & the use of anaesthetics . |
| 29 | Nearly 40 per cent felt that they needed more information about the problems and background of individual children and about one-quarter would have liked more general information about the child as well as more advice about how they could help to meet the child 's needs . |
| 30 | Mr Ponting 's case for sending the documents was that he felt that they showed that Parliament was being misled and misinformed about the Belgrano affair . |