Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NSP announced that 31 people , including students and teachers , had been indicted under the draconian anti-communist National Security Law . |
| 2 | The EOC found that direct discrimination occurred when managers described the mobility requirement differently to men and women and made it more onerous for women to comply with it . |
| 3 | Jan Reedijk and co-workers at the state University of Leiden in the Netherlands found that cis- DDP could bond to two guanine bases in a small chain of single stranded DNA despite an intervening cyosine base ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 104 , p 2664 ) . |
| 4 | The FMLN stated that agricultural work and legalized land had to be guaranteed , and accused the traditional oligarchic sector — the country 's major landowners — of exerting pressure on the government to slow down the peace process . |
| 5 | On Aug. 24 the NEC announced that fresh elections would take place in three rounds between Sept. 12 and Sept. 26 , when voting would only be permitted on production of membership cards which would be issued to party members in the interim . |
| 6 | However , the NEC emphasized that such arrangements would not be allowed to " delay or obstruct the process of orderly transition to majority rule " . |
| 7 | A new survey recently published by the CIOB found that three quarters of the members surveyed believed that the banks have a negative policy towards the construction industry . |
| 8 | In its recommendations , the IEHO said that any pool should be fully supervised by trained staff unless it fills three criteria ; the pool is used infrequently ; a relevant member of staff is always aware when the pool is in use ; and that use be restricted to adults of known swimming ability . |
| 9 | The ICRC confirmed that political prisoners numbered 1,268 , although their representatives did not have access to prisons run by the state security services . |
| 10 | The UITF concluded that such benefits are liabilities that should be recognised in financial statements in accordance with the accruals and prudence concepts of SSAP 2 , Disclosure of Accounting Policies , and the Companies Act . |
| 11 | The ANC said that substantial progress in fulfilling these demands would have to be made before negotiations could recommence . |
| 12 | Yesterday , the NFU warned that 1990 figures would reveal a fresh 10 per cent . |
| 13 | Leaders of the COS argued that many charities were encouraging the ‘ demoralization ’ of the poor by handing out benefits in cash and kind too readily and with no attempt to ensure long-term improvement in the client 's condition . |
| 14 | On April 9 the DPK said that Kurdish guerrillas had checked the advance of government troops north of Sulaimaniya . |
| 15 | According to The Times of April 12 , the DPK claimed that 50 people had been killed during an attack by government troops on a refugee centre near Halabja on the Iranian border . |
| 16 | In one of the first of these surveys ( of the fourth and fifth year curriculum in secondary schools ) in 1979 , the HMI noted that secondary teachers made wide use of ‘ heavily directed teaching , a preponderance of dictated or copied notes , and emphasis on the giving and recall of information , with little room or time for enquiry or explanation of applications ’ . |
| 17 | The IMF predicted that real GNP growth in the industrialized countries would moderate to 2.75 per cent in 1990 , before rebounding to 3 per cent in 1991 . |
| 18 | The Syndicat concluded that French legislation is incomplete in its definitions of reproductions and forgery . |
| 19 | The UKAEA insisted that that contamination was not caused by a leak . |
| 20 | It was unfortunate that the WAAF chose that particular moment to call out " AC2 Simkin " piercingly from the doorway , because the poor fellow leaped as though a powerful electric current had passed through him . |
| 21 | The PPD and the DLP agreed that local assembly elections should be held by June 1991 , with elections for governors and mayors in early 1992 . |
| 22 | lo ensure that everyone 's nitrate levels stayed under 50 mg/litre the NCG estimated that immediate capital spending of £50 million would be needed , and £150 million would be required within 20 years . |
| 23 | Last week the BBC reported that Kenyan police at Liboi , on the border with Somalia , were forcibly returning refugees from Somalia who arrived three weeks ago . |
| 24 | The SACHR said that affirmative action should go as far as positive discrimination , e.g. the tie break , but this is not in the legislation . |
| 25 | The ordering of YAC probes was harder than for other probes types in that the highly variable length of the YACs meant that some YACs were contained entirely within others , and some YACs were chimeric , requiring some manual adjustment of the order . |
| 26 | However , the USA , the Soviet Union and the UK argued that global warming targets should be settled at the Geneva conference in November . |
| 27 | The trade unions and professional associations surveyed in the UK said that vast inconsistencies in the prevention of occupational blood-borne hazards exist between employers of healthcare and public service workers in different regional authorities . |
| 28 | The BR stated that 200 lives were lost thrown out from the carriage door on the ‘ Inter City ’ trains ; this happened on the curve on the track , at this point the speed was 100 mph ( suicide ) . |
| 29 | The CPRS recommended that central government should deal with local authorities more on an interdepartmental programme basis than on a separate service-by-service basis . |
| 30 | In the discussion which followed the Zuwaya argued that five hours had passed and they had elected no one : in view of the late hour and the irregularities ( another Magharba member of the local Assembly , doubling as an electoral officer , was suspected of cheating and was escorted out by police ) it would be better to hold the elections another day . |