Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.

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1 The tide appeared to be shifting back to this higher test for in two cases ( at least ) the courts expressly adopted that criteria and disapproved of Lord Hewart C.J. 's formulation .
2 When Djilas eventually decided that a new class had emerged in communist society he did not include all administrative officials but rather the ‘ party or political bureaucracy ’ , by which he appeared to mean state functionaries who were also party members .
3 Those cases only decided that the successor must live with the tenant in the whole of the premises .
4 Another consequence of the labelling of Impressionism and other groups by critics was that some artists naturally decided that they themselves could do the same job better than the critics .
5 The constructions rarely suggested that instruments had been used appropriately .
6 I think , at the Crystal Palace , my sprinting peers suddenly realized that , and it was , for one or two , soul-destroying .
7 The authors thus concluded that the excess mortality noted for gastric cancer was probably related to socioeconomic class rather than coal mining .
8 It should be added here that the high clergy hardly recognized that they had actually been exercising a political religious power of a specifically sectarian or monopolistic type .
9 Hanne and Jens always hoped that Svend would join them on their farm , but when it became clear that his interests lay in constructional engineering they gladly supported him , despite their disappointment and the sacrifices they had to make . ’
10 Designers quickly learnt that nothing could be satisfactory on first viewing .
11 Tutors also reported that they felt that Access students compared well with other students .
12 The City Fire Inspectors later concluded that the fire was caused by a " freak focus " , due to the rising sun catching and reflecting off one of my holographic magnifying mirrors .
13 Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest .
14 Both characteristics also suggested that that power was relatively uncontrolled by the market .
15 Saitoti also announced that a 5 per cent presumptive tax on sales of agricultural produce would apply to farmers from July 1 , 1989 .
16 These authors also reported that when bowel frequency increased to more than five evacuations in 24 hours , irrespective of the patient 's age , the incidence of faecal soiling increased from 20% to 48% .
17 Right-wing readers of a right-wing paper were more likely than left-wing readers of that same paper to claim that their paper was biased towards the right — though a majority of both left- and right-wing readers typically agreed that their papers were biased and agreed on the direction of that bias .
18 ‘ This was n't conclusive in itself ’ , says Ainsworth , ‘ but Grosshans correctly noted that the perspective in our painting had been subtly altered , mostly in the architectural surround , to conform with a one-point perspective , which is a much later fifteenth-century development .
19 Islanders correctly realized that such employment as the mine would bring would be short-term , while any damage done would remain after the mining company left .
20 If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose .
21 Given the density of heroin-using networks , word spread quickly that a research programme was being undertaken and later informants frequently mentioned that the fieldworker had previously interviewed someone known to them .
22 The Iraqis moved armour into positions south of Basrah to block the more obvious of these steps and the Iranians evidently decided that Kuwait could be attended to some other time .
23 Manners briefly countered that Dr Newman had said that Italian was more in accordance with the true Jesuit spirit than Gothic .
24 For weeks after the game Scots fans jokingly demanded that the team abandon traditional training methods and prepare for every match with a raging bender .
25 In the letters columns of The Times , Jewish readers variously suggested that I was ‘ making a serious attempt to undermine the legal basis of Israel 's existence ’ and that the paper had become ‘ a platform for the enemies of Israel ’ .
26 ( The courts finally decided that Indiana state law governed the purchase but examined Swiss law because important parts of the transaction had taken place in Switzerland ) .
27 Some aid agencies and other concerned groups meanwhile suggested that the only solution to the problem of the looting by armed groups of food supplies arriving in Somalia was for the country to be " flooded " with food aid .
28 In 1989 , the Soviet authorities finally admitted that 15,000 square kilometres of land had been contaminated and more than 10,000 people evacuated .
29 The Zoo authorities soon recognized that he understood animals and offered to promote him to be one of the keepers .
30 The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines .
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