Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry of Defence said that Belgian ammunition of that particular batch had never been supplied to the British Army , and how it had come into Britain was unknown . |
| 2 | Earlier this week the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed that Dutch eggs known to be infected with salmonella had been allowed on sale in the UK . |
| 3 | Will my hon. Friend remind the House how many Conservative Nottinghamshire Members of Parliament attended that unfortunate debate , compared with the attendance of Labour Nottinghamshire Members ? |
| 4 | At the Fourth Congress Roy emphasised the counter-revolutionary character of bourgeois nationalist movements , such as Congress under Gandhi ; Tan Malaka of Indonesia urged that international Communism should support pan-Islamic movements , the opposite argument . |
| 5 | In 1981 a joint working party of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Radiologists recommended that direct access to radiological services is essential to family doctors ; it shortens the investigation time and improves the quality of service offered by general practitioners . |
| 6 | Moreover , the weakness of the remanent magnetism contained within volcanic rocks together with various sources of error meant that large numbers of individual measurements had to be averaged in order to provide a reasonably precise estimate of past continental positions . |
| 7 | Provisional figures yesterday from the Department of Transport showed that 4,274 people were killed in 1992 — 6 per cent fewer than in 1991 . |
| 8 | The HSE 's review of the first year of COSHH concluded that most firms were aware of COSHH and had tried to comply with the regulations , though many had not gone beyond the collection of information about hazards . |
| 9 | In Jim Smith 's presentation on Wednesday morning — AR Division Present and Future — he said that diversification of distribution meant that Scottish Amicable had changed with the times and was not risking all in relying on one source of business . |
| 10 | Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada announced that Canadian development aid would be tied to progress on democratization and respect for human rights . |
| 11 | A Friedman non-parametric analysis of variance and subsequent analysis with the Wilcoxon signed rank test of the number of missing entries for each patient for each type of diary showed that more sessions were missed in the evening than in the morning for both the written ( p<0.05 ) and electronic diaries ( p<0.001 ) , but differences for neither evening nor morning in the two forms of record keeping were significant . |
| 12 | The governments of Christian-dominated Lebanon and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan feared that Nasser-inspired coups were about to be sprung in Beirut and Amman . |
| 13 | For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev . |
| 14 | A close associate of Knighton said that one option being considered was to sell on part of his Isle of Man holding company , M K Trafford , through which the offer is being made . |
| 15 | The Chiefs of Staff insisted that nuclear weapons alone would enable Britain to offset the almost unlimited manpower of the USSR . |
| 16 | The Chiefs of Staff believed that some measure of West German rearmament was unavoidable . |
| 17 | The plan was originally for 17,000 MW of coal plant but this was reduced to 11,300 MW and the level of construction at the time of writing suggested that this objective may not be achieved . |
| 18 | A report from the Royal College of Physicians recommended that elderly patients should have better access to cardiological services , including coronary angioplasty and cardiac surgery . |
| 19 | Before the authorities get too enthusiastic about reports on a fall in illegal drug use by white , middle-class high school seniors , a study conducted at the University of California found that young people who do experiment with drugs are usually better adjusted than kids who abstain from drugs completely . |
| 20 | A more serious challenge to the text , however , came from a ‘ higher authority ’ — which could only mean the pope — on 24 November when the Secretary of State asked that explicit mention be made of Pius XI 's and Pius XII 's doctrine on marriage , which would not only condemn all forms of artificial contraception ( at this point , before Humanae Vitae , such a ban was not a foregone conclusion ) , but would also subordinate conjugal love to the procreation of children as the purpose of marriage . |
| 21 | In reply , the Secretary of State said that parental wishes were paramount . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State said that those people who were to receive discounts would be separately marked on the lists . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State said that British Coal 's market has been in decline for decades . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State hoped that qualified members of the teaching staff would pursue research that would contribute to the ‘ better performance of their teaching duties ’ , but he did not envisage that ‘ in the ordinary way it will be necessary for members of the academic staff to devote the whole or most of their time to research ’ . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State acknowledged that some students might be genuinely worried about their finances . |
| 26 | I notice also that the president of the chambers of commerce said that British industry and commerce were on ’ an improving trend of slowly and steadily climbing out of the recession ’ . |
| 27 | The very capaciousness of the idea of proper order as well as the changing dialectical requirements of controversy meant that absolute agreement on fundamentals was unnecessary . |
| 28 | In other words , the rapid shift of populations through the zone of transition meant that primary forms of community and social control were collapsing . |
| 29 | The increased use of trained child care officers who had studied the growth and development of personality meant that more people were aware of the difficulty , if not the impossibility , of compensating a child for the break-up of his or her natural home . |
| 30 | Lack of shelter meant that all cattle had to be housed for 7 to 8 months . |