Example sentences of "[vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that each woman had packed up her own cake to bring to the fête . |
| 2 | The chairman who ventured that mild criticism was well-placed to do so . |
| 3 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 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 | This proposed that mid-oceanic ridges represent regions where new oceanic crust is being generated by the upwelling of hot mantle material . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | The rift was now growing between Parliament , which favoured the establishment of Presbyterianism , and the army , which proposed that all forms of Christian worship except Roman Catholicism should be tolerated . |
| 9 | The European Commission last year proposed that all EC railways should separate track operation from running services , in the hope that it would then be easier to open up national railways to outside competition . |
| 10 | Tycho Brahé opted out of the Copernican research programme and initiated another when he proposed that all planets other than the earth orbit the sun , while the sun itself orbits a stationary earth . |
| 11 | With limited exceptions , it proposed that all functions of local government be undertaken by a single authority in each area . |
| 12 | In his textbook , Politics among Nations , first published in 1948 , Morgenthau proposed that international relations be studied by means of a Realist scientific approach . |
| 13 | Lipkin proposed that upward expansion of the proliferative compartment of the crypts of the large intestine occurs before adenoma development . |
| 14 | Because of the vague character of ‘ disorderly conduct , ’ the White Paper proposed that actual feelings of harassment or alarm must be experienced by the bystander , and the best evidence of that would be direct testimony from the victim . |
| 15 | Singh proposed that industrial licences be abolished except in certain strategic sectors such as the arms industry , atomic energy and strategic minerals . |
| 16 | Like the Napier Commission , the latest Royal Commission to meet on the subject ( the Taylor Commission , which reported in 1954 ) proposed that existing crofts should be amalgamated into economically viable units . |
| 17 | To reflect this , the Consultative Paper proposed that such centres could be offered the opportunity to accept devolved responsibility for quality elements normally administered by SCOTVEC , provided that the internal quality systems in place were appropriate to each element for which devolved responsibility was being sought . |
| 18 | Atchley ( 1976 ) proposed that retired individuals have a ‘ hierarchy of goals ’ which give rise to their expectations , their behaviour and their sense of well-being . |
| 19 | He also rejected the radical free market view , which proposed that each part of the electricity industry ( generation , transmission and distribution ) should be broken up into a large number of competing companies . |
| 20 | Burn said that immediately after the assessors were appointed he proposed that each judge should examine the schemes separately and indicate on them which he considered to be the best . |
| 21 | At a round of talks in Madrid on June 22-23 the US side proposed that any country should have the right to resume mining if the signatory nations could not reach agreement within three years . |
| 22 | Defant and Drummond proposed that these suites form where young ( 25Myr ) , hot oceanic lithosphere is subducted and melts , thus locally simulating the conditions that led to widespread crustal growth in the Archaean . |
| 23 | They proposed that these anomalies , which seemed to be arranged symmetrically on either side of , and roughly parallel with , the ridge crest , were not a result of variations in the intensity of magnetization , as earlier suggested , but rather a consequence of the direction of magnetization . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | In 1954 , Armitage and Doll proposed that common cancers arise as a result of the accumulation of as many as seven events . |
| 26 | In summary the report proposed that nursing services should be organized around a target population of 10,000 — 25,000 within a geographically defined area . |
| 27 | On Oct. 27 the central committee proposed that multi-candidate elections with secret ballots be obligatory . |
| 28 | Although the draft reaffirmed the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , it proposed that foreign affairs , security and home affairs would come within the ambit of EC institutions , unlike the earlier Luxembourg draft , which had proposed that such areas be subject to intergovernmental co-operation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Last month British Telecom promised that such transmitters would be available of Unisat . |