Example sentences of "[vb past] that [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also maintained that increases in public expenditure would lead to increased taxation and higher unemployment . |
| 2 | We found that adjusting for maternal smoking in pregnancy did not change the strength of the association between birth weight and lung function so that the effect of environment in utero on birth weight and subsequently on lung function may be independent of smoking in pregnancy . |
| 3 | In the 1950s many teachers found that exercises in grammatical analysis did not help children to raise their standards in the use of English . |
| 4 | A sizable majority of respondents in each of the remaining categories , including local law societies , agreed that grants to individual clients should continue to be unlimited . |
| 5 | The Software Foundation admitted that calls from big industry players such as Novell Inc , which have shied away from committing to Distributed Computing Environment until now , persuaded the organisation to reconsider its pricing policy . |
| 6 | OSF admitted that calls from big industry players such as Novell Inc , who 've shied away from committing to DCE until now , persuaded the organisation to reconsider its pricing policy ( UX No 424 ) . |
| 7 | So marked were my anxieties that I buried that experience for several years . |
| 8 | That happened that happens with all staff changes where you need a degree of skill its compounded by the fact that all nine will be changed at the same time and as I said before is a total loss of the skills base . |
| 9 | Eddie Polland was the winner of the card and pencil contest with a four rounds total of 290 but a year later Barry Brennan bettered that score by nine shots . |
| 10 | The Independent of Aug. 7 , for instance , claimed that fighting between Iraqi forces and the Kuwait Maghaweer brigade at Al Jahra barracks on Aug. 2 had resulted in over 1,000 deaths . |
| 11 | A separate study by the North-Eastern Council showed that demand from wood-based industries in the region was exceeding natural supply . |
| 12 | Some people observed that working in senior posts was easier . |
| 13 | If the hon. Gentleman followed that matter with any care , he would know that over the past four or five years we have steadily improved and made more generous the cold weather payments . |
| 14 | She decided that thinking in four dimensions was best left to the Doctor . |
| 15 | In addition to that , direct Murdoch promotions are boosting sales , but Granada warned that estimates for total demand should be taken ‘ with a certain pinch of salt . ’ |
| 16 | This implied that eosinophils in normal gut mucosa generally do not express class II molecules , which was directly confirmed by paired staining for eosinophil cationic protein ( EG2 ) and HLA-DR ( median number of EG2 + cells examined : 101 , range 64–280 , n=4 ) in which only four double positive cells were found . |
| 17 | Buxton initiated his Civilization Society in part because he feared that to wait for antislavery principles to permeate foreign societies of slaveholders , which he believed to be BFASS policy , ‘ would cost us half a century , and that implies the sacrifice of twenty five millions of the human race ’ . |
| 18 | The salary paid to the collector by the county for his efforts to extract the cess from the taxpayers , moreover , was sufficient to stimulate competition for the post , and the attraction was enough on occasion to cause severe embarrassment to county politicians , who feared that support for one candidate would lead to the permanent alienation of his rivals and their friends . |
| 19 | Eric [ Varley ] talked about energy extremely competently , though he insisted that looking for major energy savings was likely to be ‘ extremely disappointing ’ . |
| 20 | He insisted that focussing on human activities to fight global warming was misguided because ‘ 96 per cent of carbon dioxide that flows into the atmosphere comes from natural sources ’ . |
| 21 | He complained that according to English Law he could not marry a woman , and that thus he was denied the right to marry and found a family . |
| 22 | She remembered that smile with resentful clarity . |
| 23 | It said that fears for public order would make a hearing undesirable . |
| 24 | Mr Major said that plans for devolved Scottish , Welsh and regional assemblies , combined with moves to a federal Europe and an end to the first-past-the-post voting system , were ‘ of far greater importance than the general election itself ’ . |
| 25 | In answer to questions , Yeltsin said that help from other countries would ease the economic transition but that reform depended on Russia itself . |
| 26 | He said that went against new Department of Transport guidelines . |
| 27 | The main reason for the better than expected results appeared to be a delay in expenditure by the regional governments but in the longer term he said that cuts in public expenditure had helped to reduce the budget deficit from a peak of almost 13 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) in 1982 to 7.8 per cent in 1988 and 6.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 28 | He said that going into double figures must be marked . ’ |
| 29 | Speaking at the launch , party leader John Smith said that adapting to environmental changes could create 700,000 jobs and generate business worth £140,000 million by the end of the century . |
| 30 | A " Political Column " by Shih Chun-yu , published in Ta Kung Bao of March 13 , suggested that focusing on economic development and fighting corruption while ignoring " Western propaganda on democracy and freedom " would encourage support for the party . |