Example sentences of "[vb past] that [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1963 , when he was already Leader of the Labour Party , Harold Wilson promised that under a Labour government there would be ‘ Grammar School education for all ’ , and few in the Labour Party wanted to be seen as the enemy of the grammar schools . |
| 2 | The Paris show demonstrated that at a much lower level delightful drawings by well known names can still be bought at a fraction of the price of a painting by the same artist . |
| 3 | He described that as a substantial real-terms increase and a generous package of support . |
| 4 | Essentially the Post charged that in a 1984 report , Mike Hoover , a freelance news cameraman with a reputation for providing theatrical footage , recreated scenes of Afghan rebels sabotaging electricity pylons — days after the real action had taken place . |
| 5 | ‘ I never doubted that for a moment , ’ he replied in an extremely charming , yet at the same time insolent , tone . |
| 6 | I say in interesting , if you built that in a model , people would n't believe you . |
| 7 | The 1977 Royal Commission on the Press found that for a quality newspaper , production costs accounted for 31% of total costs ; the next largest group of costs were attributed to newsprint and ink . |
| 8 | He told The Art Newspaper , ‘ Every two years we have a renewed clothes allowance , and we found that for a very little extra we could provide our warders with these outfits . |
| 9 | Wright and West , in a study of all incidents recorded by the police as genuine rapes or attempted rapes in six English counties over a five-year period from 1972 to 1976 , found that of a total of 297 cases , fellatio was attempted or demanded in 30 incidents , cunnilingus in 13 , buggery in 12 and other sexual acts usually involving masturbation in 35 . |
| 10 | They found that with a 60 ( user ) concurrent workload Destiny on the Intel chip was 28% faster than a DEC 5900 and performed 87% as well as an RS/6000 970 running AIX . |
| 11 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 12 | India in those days ( round about 1963 ) was much in the air and I found that as a background it decidedly fired my imagination . |
| 13 | And we found that over a period of , oh about a couple of months , the same people almost used to come round . |
| 14 | I have a slow heartbeat , about 67 or 68 , but we found that in a quiet passage of music before a climax the heartbeat could rise to 170 . |
| 15 | Nicola Woods found that in a business setting , gender was a better predictor than status of who would interrupt whom . |
| 16 | Research carried out at Queen Mary and Westfield College , London found that in a major incident at a plant of the type proposed a radius of nine miles could be affected , that is from Bolton in the north to Hale in the south , and from Leigh in the west to the easternmost boundary of Greater Manchester . |
| 17 | Hewitt and Burton ( 1971 ) analysed the record for southwestern Ontario and found that in a 50-year period there would be 1 severe drought , 2 major windstorms , 5 severe snowstorms , 8 severe hurricanes , 10 severe glaze storms , 16 severe floods , 25 severe hailstorms and 39 tornadoes . |
| 18 | Further , one of my students , Raymond Laflamme , found that in a slightly more complicated model , the collapse of the universe was very different from the expansion . |
| 19 | Contrary to these expectations , Rose found that in a group of 36211 men followed from 5 to 23 years , two thirds of those who developed colon cancer had initial serum cholesterol values below the age sex specific values for each respective cohort . |
| 20 | Similarly , in obese patients receiving weight reduction , Broomfield and colleagues found that in a dose of 1300 mg/day , aspirin inhibited ( albeit to a non-significant extent ) the development of microcrystals , microstones , and gall stones — which developed with high frequency in untreated patients . |
| 21 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 22 | So all the traffic that used that as a rat run to get on the East Lancs Road |
| 23 | Ethiopian radio reported that during a ceremony in the office of President Meles , Carter had said that he was ready to make his own contribution to convince the World Bank , the IMF and other international organizations " to take part in the country 's economic reconstruction " . |
| 24 | Hospitals reported that on a single day ( Oct. 24 ) four civilians had been killed and more than 100 injured . |
| 25 | Greenpeace reported that as a result exports were going to east European countries and Latin America . |
| 26 | Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser , head of state of Sierra Leone , reported that as a result of the conflict his country had had " no respite for the past 15 months " and had suffered as much devastation as Liberia itself . |
| 27 | the Guardian of March 1 reported that at a meeting between the government and members of the opposition in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , angry debate had erupted over demands by the opposition that martial law be declared not by the government in exile , but by an emergency national unity government reflecting various political views . |
| 28 | The Xinhua news agency reported that at a meeting with Li Peng soon after the Kazakh party 's arrival , the Chinese Premier called for enhanced relations in all fields and said that the recently completed rail link would help bilateral relations in the economic and trade fields . |
| 29 | He realized that to a materialistic society losing a wife to a millionaire hardly counted as failure . |
| 30 | Filmer 's neck muscles slowly relaxed , and I realized that for a moment he must have suspected that the scene had been specifically aimed at him . |