Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman who ventured that mild criticism was well-placed to do so . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bukharin had already indicated a part of his reasoning when he proposed that political economy as a subject of study would disappear under socialism , because : |
| 4 | Lipkin proposed that upward expansion of the proliferative compartment of the crypts of the large intestine occurs before adenoma development . |
| 5 | In an early comment upon denudation chronology Day Kimball ( 1948 ) proposed that historical geology could be divided into two parts : stratigraphy , which deals with what is there and denudation chronology , which is concerned with what is n't ! |
| 6 | We previously proposed that restorative proctocolectomy might have a role in the management of patients with continued constipation despite subtotal colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis if there was objective evidence of slow transit constipation . |
| 7 | The group stayed at the Stafford Moat House Hotel and spent the afternoon at an outdoor saloon stock car racing circuit [ Graham promised that heated cover would be provided ! ] |
| 8 | Mubarak appealed the same day for calm and promised that new accommodation would be provided for all homeless victims within six weeks . |
| 9 | Alfred Marshall , the leading economist of the last decades of the nineteenth century , provided new tools for analysing the economy and demonstrated that involuntary unemployment could occur . |
| 10 | R. A. Fisher ( 1930 ) demonstrated that female choice for particular male characteristics ( such as tail size ) can cause them to develop to a point at which they reduce the average fitness of males . |
| 11 | Carmichael and Dearborn ( 1950 ) demonstrated that continuous reading was likely to result in increased failure of concentration within an hour , but if the performance of the reader was checked and confirmed by asking questions at half-hour intervals then performance could continue for six to eight hours without signs of fatigue . |
| 12 | It symbolized the potential power and solidarity of the unions and demonstrated that collective action on a large scale could close workplaces . |
| 13 | Winder et al ( 1978 ) demonstrated that physical training decreased the amount of catecholamines released in humans , but it is not clear whether myometrial bloodflow is affected more than cotyledon bloodflow . |
| 14 | In a prior experiment , we demonstrated that phonological coding did not occur with Korean letters . |
| 15 | Sutherland demonstrated that corporate crime was widespread and virtually endemic in contemporary national and transnational corporations . |
| 16 | It was some time before the pleasurable realization occurred that real communication could take place , that noises , grimaces , and gestures could bridge the gap where there were no shared words and thus give mutual delight . ) |
| 17 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 18 | Hartlepool drew that fateful tie 1-1 , losing not only the replay but the potential salvation of a fifth-round journey to Old Trafford . |
| 19 | And without knowing why the burglars entered that ritzy complex on the Potomac river , we ca n't safely say we know the other Ws all that intimately . |
| 20 | Octavia Hill , too , adopted the principle that her housing ventures must be self-supporting , and that the tenants should pay an economic rent ; she maintained that rate-aided housing might be a danger to poorer tenants , who would be in the position of having to contribute through the rates to council housing , when they could scarcely afford the rent for their own inferior accommodation . |
| 21 | for instance , Michael Oakeshott , in his essay ‘ Education : the Engagement and its frustrations ’ , maintained that true education was essentially unconcerned with anything outside itself : ‘ It is an intrinsic good . |
| 22 | Again , some psycholinguists maintained that top-down constraint merely facilitated recognition , while others argued that top-down information had to produce hypotheses to compensate for inaccurate acoustic information . |
| 23 | Dr Alex Comfort lifted the argument to the realm of world peace when he maintained that sexual activity of every kind is necessary in order to free human beings from the instinct to fight and harm others . |
| 24 | She maintained that bad headhunting practice was thus allowed to continue unchecked . |
| 25 | ‘ Lie back … ’ he said thickly , his long fingers touching her boldly , and he stroked that throbbing pulse with authority and experience , his mouth against hers , his strong hand between her silken thighs . |
| 26 | Maggie was about to refuse but she caught that sceptical look in the count 's eye and changed her mind . |
| 27 | Wilberforce doubted that humanitarian zeal had sufficient staying power despite his own and others ' expression of it in 1792 . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend is entirely correct and it would be as well if the House bore that important fact in mind when considering some of the allegations that are made — although I hope this afternoon for a more responsible tone in the remarks of the hon. Member for Sedgefield . |
| 29 | When the hon. Member for Newham , North-East mentioned that important matter I was referring to the progress that we have made in bringing inflation under control . |
| 30 | Quick as a bleeding flash she was , the way she bunged herself head first into that little black job and stopped that poor bugger what was bleeding like a bloody stuck pig , afore any of your lot got here . |