Example sentences of "[vb past] that [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this , some studies in the United States , where formal study of " civics " is more extensive than in Britain , found that taking such courses had little impact on political knowledge and attitudes . |
| 2 | When he did , he found that to acknowledge these events in writing became a sort of therapy for him . |
| 3 | They found that mixing each cubic metre of soil with 3 kg of Agrosoke reduced by 65 per cent the amount of water needed to grow sunflower plants . |
| 4 | They argued that to avoid this it should be placed under trade union control . |
| 5 | She imagined that to walk that track , and to climb the rough hewn rock around the mouth of the cave , would bring her to the top of the canyon . |
| 6 | Acting on the advice of the Greek astronomer Sosigenes , Caesar directed that to correct this anomaly the year 46 BC should be extended to 445 days . |
| 7 | One senior consultant stated that taking this hour to reflect on his role as a teacher and trainer was a unique experience in his career . |
| 8 | Fletcher acknowledged that losing all four Tests on this tour , after the 3-0 series defeat in India , was of far greater concern than any of the four defeats so far suffered in seven one-day internationals . |
| 9 | The Minister will recall that during the first Tory recession , Ministers claimed that making many people redundant was a price worth paying to make British industry leaner and fitter . |
| 10 | Suffice it to say that a Labour bureaucracy developed that accepted some basic tenets of bourgeois ideology more wholly than the bourgeoisie itself . |
| 11 | An anonymous respondent , similarly reticent about details of search firms ' names , agreed that ‘ large buys prestige in the eyes of candidates ’ , but warned that using these firms ‘ tends to restrict the choice of employer ’ from which to hunt and find candidates . |
| 12 | It 's a good artist 's sketch of a building , ’ he said , but warned that giving more money to Congress was like giving an alcoholic a liquor store . |
| 13 | It was what Morley 's reportage implied that aroused such ire , especially the bit about bad choices , and crack perhaps not being the worst of them . |
| 14 | Polgar told me that in the early days of his marriage he examined the childhood of many famous persons and saw that geniuses all specialised in a field very early . |
| 15 | Charity knew that to protest any more would only undermine her credibility . |
| 16 | He knew that recording this observation in line , tone , texture and colour , using a variety of materials , was essential if the looking was to become keen enough to lead to deeper understanding . |
| 17 | As an exercise in the skills of understatement and of giving the wrong impression without actually lying , Charles thought that took some beating . |
| 18 | DEFINITE END-of-the beginning vibes for Heavenly , as one of our more maverick and thus of-the-moment labels made the now customary jaunt to the Locomotive for a night that proved that to make any inroads into the popular imagination , you must first step aside from the scene-steeped mainstream . |
| 19 | Three groups of plants appeared that possessed such structures and all three have descendants that have survived without much change — clubmosses which resemble mosses but have stiffer stems ; horsetails which grow in waste patches and ditches and have stems encircled at intervals with rings of needle-like leaves ; and ferns . |
| 20 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 21 | I answered that question some moments ago . |
| 22 | Funny cos there are n't many places left that do that now are there ? |
| 23 | A report in the Israeli media on Nov. 8 said that following these elections a communiqué issued by the Hamas leadership in the diaspora referred to the importance of a " quiet dialogue " between Hamas and the PLO in order to avoid the violent public clashes between their members . |
| 24 | Administration officials said that to achieve that goal , the planes would fly at night and high enough to avoid danger of being shot down and would have no combat escorts . |
| 25 | I said that to understand this difficulty one has to think along certain lines . |
| 26 | because they , she said that has this hay and straw , so so all in all |
| 27 | There was nothing about the man 's voice , nothing about what he said that cast any doubt on his motives . |
| 28 | Jiang responded by saying that in 1978 , Deng Xiaoping , then Vice-Premier , said that resolving this issue should be left to the wisdom of future generations . |
| 29 | Development of this method to cope with other types of phrases would require a larger training set that included these phrase types . |
| 30 | And no one pointed out that at the Chelsea game , the programme had a huge 2-page spread entitled ‘ Stop the Munich song ’ in which Strach , Macca , Speedo , and others suggested that singing this stuff is a dumb thing to do . |