Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the televised hearings on Aug. 30 the three bankers each admitted that lax credit controls had contributed to their banks ' involvement in the recent scandals . |
| 2 | The Times 12.1.90 reported that public health labs have found that up to 60% of all uncooked chickens in shops are contaminated by Salmonella and Listeria . |
| 3 | The International Herald Tribune of April 4-5 reported that 17 Syrian human rights activists had recently been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years . |
| 4 | In respect of IAS 9 , Research and Development Costs , and IAS 23 , Borrowing Costs , E 32 proposed that immediate recognition as an expense should be the preferred treatment for all such costs . |
| 5 | A World Bank study in 1986 found that four newly industrialized countries ( Colombia , South Korea , Mexico and Thailand ) obtained as much as 72 per cent of their revenue from indirect taxes . |
| 6 | A survey of married owner-occupier couples in 1971 found that 42 per cent had the home in the husband 's name , and only 5 per cent in the wife 's name , the remainder being joint mortgages ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ) . |
| 7 | He recorded over 200 baptisms , including those of Lawyer and Rotten Belly , though some whispered that due to his failing eyesight he baptised certain individuals more than once . |
| 8 | While many people expressed dissatisfaction and anger with government training policies , some argued that current training policies can be used fruitfully by and for local people . |
| 9 | For example : Law 2 argued that urban areas will absorb the population of first their immediate rural areas and then even the remote areas ; Law 6 stated that urban dwellers are less migratory than rural inhabitants ; and Law 5 argued that migrants proceeding long distances generally migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 10 | A MORI opinion poll in February 1985 reported that 64 per cent of those surveyed expected further riots to occur in British cities , and seven months later their fears were justified . |
| 11 | This proposed that mid-oceanic ridges represent regions where new oceanic crust is being generated by the upwelling of hot mantle material . |
| 12 | In particular , the New York Times/CBS poll of Oct. 22 found that 79 per cent believed foreign policy less important than home issues , that only 37 per cent approved Bush 's handling of the economy , and that 56 per cent believed that the recession was getting worse . |
| 13 | This found that 85 per cent of the babies in the trial , who were aged up to eight months , were soothed by the crackle of Egnell Ameda 's Babyshh , which sounds like an out-of-tune radio ( see Lulla-buys , our review of soothers in the January issue ) . |
| 14 | A Women 's Industrial Council investigation of 10,000 girls during the 1890s found that 5 per cent spent an hour at midday and between two and four hours after school , as well as Saturdays , thus employed . |
| 15 | The Financial Times of Feb. 12 reported that four senior company officials at the pit were to be tried for negligence . |
| 16 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 12 reported that some 80 former student leaders who were active in the pro-democracy movement in the 1970s had formed a new political party , Pracha Dhamma . |
| 17 | The Financial Times of Nov. 22 reported that 17 people had been killed since the outbreak of disturbances in late October . |
| 18 | The Financial Times of Sept. 22 reported that pro-Chinese associations had won 12 of the 16 elective seats . |
| 19 | The Times of Feb. 22 reported that seven senior executives from the Valsella Meccanotecnica company in Brescia , northern Italy , had been convicted by a Brescia court of illegally exporting 9,000,000 land mines to Iraq in 1982-86 . |
| 20 | The US negotiating team , led by Max Kampelman until his retirement in December , had on Oct. 30 proposed that anti-missile tests in space be permitted but that a limit be placed on their scope , with a specific assurance that the USA would limit to 15 the number of satellites deployed in a Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI , or " Star Wars'-see p. 36760 ) test . |
| 21 | Putting up posters and shouting slogans about democracy had done little in the past to achieve the students ' goal but in 1980 , some believed that substantial change could be achieved if the limited opportunities presented by the Gengshen reforms were seized . |
| 22 | Another added that one of the purposes of the media hype was actually to deliberately confuse people . |
| 23 | However , Izvestiya of April 22 noted that one of the main results of the Congress itself had been the formation of an organized opposition in the " Russian Unity " bloc , comprising both former communists and nationalist groups . |
| 24 | This assumed that young people embarked upon a particular ‘ career ’ because they had ‘ chosen ’ it : that it was a product of their own internal decision-making processes . |
| 25 | A French government report released on July 2 showed that foreign orders for French weapons had soared by 70 per cent in 1990 to F33,400 million ( US$5,400 million ) , largely because of the Gulf war . |
| 26 | One answer was that the riots in 1980 in Bristol followed by others in Toxteth , Moss Side and Handsworth in 1981 and Tottenham , Handsworth and Bristol in 1985 showed that young people could be a very real threat to the social order as well as just a symbolic one . |
| 27 | Research carried out in 1985 showed that 20–25 per cent of hotel guests cared sufficiently about fitness to view the provision of leisure facilities as a major determinant in selecting a place to stay ( Lodging Hospitality , Feb. 1985 ) . |
| 28 | This confirmed that these junctions were unaltered at the nucleotide level ( data not shown ) , indicating that integration had indeed occurred by homologous recombination . |
| 29 | Some speculated that this may have been a product of trying to create a hypertext and converting that into text . |
| 30 | A US Congressional Research Service report cited in the Middle East Economic Digest of March 22 stated that current food stocks in Iraq were at a record low . |