Example sentences of "that the [adj] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil McKendrick has said of his " consumer revolution " that the rich led the way in the 1760s and 1770s with an " orgy of spending " on their magnificent houses . |
| 2 | We need scarcely remind ourselves that the 1420s marked the nadir of French fortunes . |
| 3 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 4 | Under Morris any assumption of any of the rights of the owner suffices , and there is no need to prove that the accused deprived the owner of anything . |
| 5 | Charles decided that the accused had the bank 's authority to draw the cheque so as to create a contract between the bank and the payee . |
| 6 | It must be proved that the accused handled the goods " knowing or believing them to be stolen goods " and that he acted dishonestly . |
| 7 | ‘ Appropriates ’ is generally proved by a witness stating that the accused picked the property up or put it in a shopping bag or a pocket . |
| 8 | The Treaty of Rome , which established the Common Market , accelerated the already rapid growth of some members , so that the 1960s saw the emergence of a dynamic economy far stronger than the British , offering economies of scale in a consumer market of more than 200 million people . |
| 9 | Evidently , there is more to our belief that the flipping caused the wipers to start to work than has so far been specified . |
| 10 | Throughout the months since he had brought the word from Hannele , he had sometimes had the impression that the British viewed the escapade with distaste , embarrassment , that sat ill with its potential . |
| 11 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 12 | These points taken together suggest that the burnt-offering symbolized the worshipper 's homage and total dedication to God , in laying his hand on the animal he identified himself completely with the sacrifice . |
| 13 | It was after all from the Portuguese that the French took the hint about the rightness of fresh tomato sauce with eggs , fish and rice ; à la portugaise signifying , in French cookery , a dish in which the tomato figures . |
| 14 | It was then , however , that the French revolutionised the situation with the ‘ Schuman Plan ’ , announced by the foreign minister on 8 May . |
| 15 | To get over the problem he sometimes insisted that he was Welsh , claiming that the Welsh disliked the English as much as the Icelanders . |
| 16 | The latter took the attitude that the DC-10 satisfied the requirements of the Federal Airworthiness Regulations but the Dutchmen stood their ground and countered that the requirements were inadequate . |