Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] that " in BNC.

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1 Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed .
2 As a last example of the potential role of operations research in GIS and disaster management we are reminded of the logistic problems that faced the Peel Regional Police Force during the Mississauga evacuation mentioned previously ( Scanlon and Padgham 1980 ) .
3 The main differences between the account of the journalist and the sociologist come from the different orientations that each brings to the subject of study .
4 Two million voted in the six republics that had formally declined to participate , among whom the level of support for the continued existence of the USSR was predictably very high .
5 This is contained in the large warts that cover the upper surface of the toad 's skin .
6 Masha Cohen also knew of such things , not in the same way , but from her own very different experiences as a young girl whose family had been harassed and hounded in the anti-semitic agitations that rent Poland .
7 Once again i caught on the three methods that I thought would work on the day and to say the least I was more than confident of getting good points .
8 He must have come across the low fences that separated the row of back gardens .
9 As for Freud , the clitoris continues to be surrounded by the same problems that it held for nineteenth-century medicine .
10 I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time .
11 The curriculum is skewed towards the practical subjects that can most easily be integrated into economic production — the sciences , engineering , mechanics and health studies .
12 This relates to a more basic question concerning the sorts of explanations that are to be given of the cross-national variations that are discovered .
13 Attracted by newspaper publicity ( the company did not bother to advertise ) 3000 people applied for the 20 jobs that were available .
14 On Jan. 16 the round table talks immediately ran into problems when the UDF representatives accused the BCP of reneging on promises made during the preliminary discussions that the opposition would be allowed its own newspaper and access to state television and radio , and that a building would be handed over for use as a UDF headquarters .
15 A useful distinction can be made between the defensive factors that cause companies to look beyond their domestic markets ( reactive factors ) and proactive influences .
16 This assumption is hardly ever challenged ; yet it is clearly the case that many scientists are as incompetent in the humanities as many humanities graduates tend to be in the sciences ; it is perhaps a mark of the enormous divide we have made between the two areas that ability in one is often considered to preclude ability in the other .
17 Sometimes when the changes are slower it can be more difficult because allowance has to be made for the natural variations that occur hour by hour in an illness even without any treatment .
18 He related how he had come down to London and systematically searched through the various agencies that might have employed Elsie , how he had tracked down Mrs Wilson and had gone to see her .
19 Based in Switzerland and named after the three transmitters that they used .
20 Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly .
21 A sudden gust of rain dashed against the red bricks that were already stained in patches by water .
22 I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant .
23 A small room below the Operations Centre at CI5 : a room laid out like a telephone exchange , with junction boxes on the wall , and switchboards built into the smooth panels that were the work surfaces ; a quiet room , save for the hiss of the air conditioning and the easy movements of two men in chairs , monitoring flickering TV screens .
24 The workshop also stressed that there needs to be an awareness built into the local communities that their health service was being attacked .
25 Will the Secretary of State explain how he was able to commission a review of teaching methods in a matter of a few weeks , although his minimum standards — first laid down in 1981 — were not met in the 10 years that the Government allowed themselves , and the current review will not now report until the autumn ?
26 But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore .
27 MacMillan has said from the first announcements that it would be a big company ballet , involving a large cast , and he has provided just that .
28 It will be seen from the above comments that the local banks through their Trade Finance Division are in a position to offer real help — it would be foolish to ignore it .
29 Smaller mammals , such as cats , rabbits and ferrets , have only a short gestation and so can made in the lengthening days that signal the end of winter .
30 The total cost of each programme is related to the total benefits that would be derived from the programme to determine the efficiency of the programme .
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