Example sentences of "they [vb past] [that] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the existing rules applied to a serf-based society , suspending them implied that the social order on which they depended was to be altered . |
| 2 | Some of the more extreme Tories , by contrast , flirted with the idea of restoring the son of James II , the Catholic Stuart king deposed in 1688 , while most of them demanded that the British war effort be concentrated on a mainly naval and colonial struggle against France . |
| 3 | They announced that the new body which they had established , the Commonwealth of Independent States ( Sodruzhestvo Nyezavisimikh Gosudarstv ) , was open to all republics of the former Soviet Union , and to any other state which shared its aims . |
| 4 | When documents from the Conservative Cabinet 's Family Policy Group were leaked in 1983 , they revealed that the then Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit believed women should abandon waged work and return to their homes . |
| 5 | After the Mirror accused them of a cover-up , they revealed that the deadly brew trickled down the outside of a hot evaporator for FIVE HOURS before alarms were triggered . |
| 6 | They planned that the next wave of new machinery would be installed in an area away from the shop-floor where engineers would try out working practices so that shop-floor workers would simply not have the chance to gain the upper hand . |
| 7 | They realized that the old technique of depending upon the trained observer 's overall impression to characterize the natural vegetation of an area was unreliable . |
| 8 | In unison they agreed that the new system , ‘ improves consistency and is a great asset ’ . |
| 9 | They agreed that the technical equipment used in operations must influence the type of work organisation for employees : in the case of coal mining , the new cutting equipment and conveyor belts made working in small groups no longer practicable . |
| 10 | After much debate they agreed that the parliamentary group and the government should negotiate with those parties wishing to phase out nuclear energy by 2010 without being bound to close the first nuclear power station by 1995 , the date envisaged by the 1988 legislation [ see also p. 37197 ] . |
| 11 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 12 | It was then they realised that the German target was not the bridge but the warships in the Firth of Forth . |
| 13 | They argued that the higher recall scores in the earlier experiment could have occurred because of more efficient storage of the passage at input , or because of better reconstruction of the material at recall . |
| 14 | They argued that the apparent over-representation of black youth in the criminal statistics may be that youth is such a large part of the black population . |
| 15 | They argued that the Keynesian obsession with the demand side of the economy was misplaced ; the real focus of attention should be the supply side . |
| 16 | Although they proposed that the coercive power of bishops and ecclesiastics should be abolished , the use of the Book of Common Prayer would be tolerated . |
| 17 | They demonstrated that the reduced production of 6-oxo-prostaglandin F 1 α , seen in chronically diabetic rats ( four-six weeks ) could be restored by a dose of insulin ( 8 U/kg/day ) that only partially corrected their plasma glucose and body weight ( Rogers & Larkins , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | When developing countries wanted better terms of access for their exports of manufactures , they found that the principal supplier was invariably an industrialised country . |
| 19 | Now is , is the fact that they do n't do that , they still go for this rent and interest rate reduction is it because of the experience of the north , they found that the best way in the north was to go for rent reduction , interest rate reduction and then go on , and they were simply taking that experience into the south , but taking it into a different area where it was no longer necessary or appropriate ? |
| 20 | They found that the triphenylated rosaniline ( 4 ) was difficult to handle owing to its poor solubility . |
| 21 | They found that the vast majority of bed-wetting cases cleared up very quickly , especially if treated sympathetically . |
| 22 | In addition to finding that many Boroughs actually made a profit from council house rents , and thus subsidized ratepayers , they found that the highest transfer from rates to council housing was no less than 443 per cent above average . |
| 23 | Like Yadav and Pope ( 1992b ) , they found that the absolute value of the proportionate mispricing declined as delivery approached . |
| 24 | Among other things , they found that the daily volume of trading in the S&P500 futures contract had a significantly positive effect on the volatility of the corresponding future , as predicted . |
| 25 | They found that the main response occurs with the first hour . |
| 26 | They found that the social class V mothers placed less emphasis on early training and appeared to have very casual attitudes . |
| 27 | On arrival in the kitchens they found that the domestic superintendent had followed the correct first-aid procedure for scalds and burns and the two ladies , although suffering from shock , had already had ice packs administered to their injuries . |
| 28 | They found that the same pattern of results was obtained even when only one eye fixation per slide was allowed , always on the central detail . |
| 29 | The Perkins may have come to regret this decision because , after being eclipsed at the exhibition , the demand for their mauve dye decreased rapidly , and they found that the commercial potential for magenta dye had been grossly underestimated . |
| 30 | In 1956 Japanese companies experimented in the Antarctic with electrical equipment , but they found that the electric current impeded the blood circulation and this lowered the quality of the whale meat . |