Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with Hitler 's nazis , Blackshirts argued that in using weapons they were merely copying the tactics of their opponents . |
| 2 | Bickerman argued that in antiquity big enterprises of translation were due to public , not private , initiative . |
| 3 | Van den Boogaard argued that in entering Anglo-Norman , fabliaux underwent a radical transformation because they were aimed at such an isolated audience ; an audience isolated from the full French literary frame of reference that a truly French audience would have had . |
| 4 | Frege argued that in asserting an existential proposition one is in effect saying something about the relevant concept , namely that certain things fall under it , or , conversely , that nothing falls under it , i.e. that the concept is empty , as the case may be . |
| 5 | Newman argued that as a commitment in the light of evidence that can not be treated as proof , religious belief is like rather than unlike other forms of belief . |
| 6 | An English observer much involved in these problems complained of Russian diplomats in 1673 that " it is their Custome , to think , whatsoever they get , too little , and whatever they give , too much " , while in 1698 an embassy sent by the Emperor Leopold I to Moscow argued that in future , to avoid such disagreements , the tsar and the Holy Roman Emperor should each be responsible for the maintenance of their own embassies in the way now generally accepted in Europe . |
| 7 | The possibility that the MacQuillan empire was facing hard times raised interesting questions about the future of the Post , but Rain 's glass was empty and Shildon read that as a signal that she was impatient to leave . |
| 8 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 9 | Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora reported that during his May meeting in Washington with US President George Bush the latter had shown a serious attitude to the drug problem ( the US government having agreed almost to double Bolivia 's anti-drug aid , to $33,000,000 ) . |
| 10 | Michel reported that in 1989 the cost of debt servicing had surpassed the funds available in loans and grants and would have to be paid for out of foreign exchange . |
| 11 | Charles Martel had them out in 737 , but the island was laid waste and largely abandoned for three centuries , the Bishop and clergy fleeing and the Counts of Melgueil , of evil repute , appropriating the see and its revenues ; yet in 798 St Theodulph of Orléans reported that despite this , and pirates , there were still four chapters there . |
| 12 | As late as January 1923 Pravda reported that in some villages in the Saratov guberniia 80 to 85 per cent of the population were still starving . |
| 13 | Two years later , at a meeting at the Soviet Ministry of Culture , Ortiz asked that in return he should be allowed to select an exchange exhibition to be shown in the West . |
| 14 | Peugeot and Citroen countered that by providing diesel models decked out with all mod cons . |
| 15 | Beyen argued that in the long term the ‘ sector ’ approach to co-operation would have to face up to the need for an all-embracing ‘ common market ’ reducing all trade barriers between the Six . |
| 16 | Athletico argued that with so much spontaneous combustion in the air it was dangerous for the game to continue and the referee should abandon it there and then . |
| 17 | But , bit by bit , Haringey found that in setting 1989-90 's rate , it had rather more than the year 's expenditure to cover . |
| 18 | NGL found that with FMS stock work in progress is now being turned over 24 times a year as opposed to the previous 3.3 times . |
| 19 | Counsel maintained that in any situation where the facts , as here , would give rise to such a verdict , the death should be regarded as ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8 . |
| 20 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
| 21 | Reviewing this same exhibition , both Allard and Apollinaire noticed that for the first time in several years the influence of Matisse and Fauvism was slight . |
| 22 | Sylvie noticed that despite his short legs , his girth , he had a grace about him and a power . |
| 23 | Sitting much later in the genteel coffee shop of a Holiday Inn in Suburban Virginia , Habib Olahi recalled that as the Shah walked to and fro , he said , " This is against the constitution . " |
| 24 | General Roberts stated that on 6 May a unit of the ROK army had advanced north of the 38th parallel to a depth of 2.5 miles ( 4 km ) and had attacked several settlements . |
| 25 | However , Defence Secretary Dick Cheney stated that in the light of recent political events in the Soviet Union , which had given him " some pause for concern " , the cutback programme could be halted if the Soviet military showed signs of reasserting its power . |
| 26 | On May 3 sources at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in Brussels claimed that on Feb. 25 , the day of major opposition demonstrations in Moscow and across the country [ see p. 37322-23 ] , a division of up to 6,000 heavily armed troops had been mobilized on the outskirts of Moscow . |
| 27 | Research conducted in the United States discovered that for the top five executives from a sample of 50 of the largest companies three times as much income came from shares as from employment . |
| 28 | It was a complete caricature of Schleiermacher when Hegel remarked that on this account a dog must be more religious than his master , because even more completely dependent . |
| 29 | In his paper on ‘ Mourning and Melancholia ’ Freud established that in depression following the loss of a love-object the ego absorbs that object into itself so that the exaggerated self-reproaches , self-deprecation and self-hatred which typify the condition can be understood as sadistic drives which have been unconsciously directed on to the object whose ‘ shadow has fallen on the ego . ’ |
| 30 | Ramsey knew that as a bishop he had a teaching ministry , and that this needed a journal which was more than diocesan news . |