Example sentences of "[vb past] that this [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Brau and Brunner AG and Cadbury Schweppes plc notified the creation of a joint venture that would prepare and sell mineral water , the Commission found that this joint venture was not a concentration but a cooperative agreement , because the parent companies would stay active on the soft drinks market and so the structure of competition would not be permanently altered , as it would with a concentration . |
| 2 | The researchers found that this geographical pattern is best matched by that of sugar consumption , in which the leading countries are , in descending order , the UK , the Netherlands , Ireland , Canada and Denmark , and the countries with the lowest consumption are Italy , Yugoslavia , Spain , Portugal and Japan . |
| 3 | Alexander ( 1980 ) has gone through Murdock 's ( 1967 ) ethnographic atlas and found that this asymmetrical treatment of cousins is strongly associated with the type of marriage common in that culture . |
| 4 | They also found that this same Robert Gravier was reported to have chartered the ill-fated Falcon Jet N888AR from Hansa Jet to take him from LaGuardia Airport , New York , to Acapulco . |
| 5 | More significantly , he also realized that this electrical activity was affected by external stimuli falling on the sense organs . |
| 6 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Voting six to three , the court ruled that this ultimate threat violated states ' rights . |
| 8 | Leith 's mouth fell open in surprise as she realised that this awful man thought she and Travis were sleeping together . |
| 9 | He realised that this steamy tropical island with its huge natural harbour , just 80 miles north of the equator , was perfectly placed to become the British Empire 's power-base in the East . |
| 10 | But Billingsley had clearly known about Hirondelle 's visit to Murder Cay , and I realised that this senior police officer had not come here to enquire into a crime , but to cover it up . |
| 11 | She did n't need to plead for long ; soon the authorities realised that this determined woman could look after students better than anyone . |
| 12 | Even in its inchoate beginnings , pop culture was forced to turn to the sexually divergent or avant-garde , for it was only in the spaces that they inhabited that this new world could be recognized and could develop . |
| 13 | He admitted that this financial capacity would be provided by fewer underwriting members . |
| 14 | However , after the spirited French defence of April 9th-11th , even von Mudra admitted that this new technique was not likely to succeed . |
| 15 | We further argued that this mass withdrawal of support from men had to happen quickly if the world were not to be destroyed by pollution or holocaust . |
| 16 | It added that this foolhardy and wilful disregard was clear evidence of the cynicism within the British establishment , and warned of tragic consequences for the public . |
| 17 | Apollinaire and Hourcade added that this conceptual or intellectual approach led naturally to a selection of simple geometric forms . |
| 18 | Some of the first life course sociologists assumed that this gradual ageing process was also socially unidirectional , towards ‘ disengagement ’ , as if in acceptance that life itself was ebbing away . |
| 19 | She looked round and noticed that this particular edifice seemed to be dressed in dark blue … |
| 20 | However , Caithness himself stated that this first selection was ‘ in no way a definitive list … |
| 21 | In the UK a study in 1970 found that people were twice as likely to continue with coitus interruptus than with the diaphragm and in 1974 the International Planned Parenthood Federation declared that this time-honoured method ‘ probably remains the most widely used of all on a global scale ’ . |
| 22 | Fonda claimed that this first experience began the halt of a downhill slide into alcoholism , acquisitive , habitual spending on fast cars , Cessna airplanes , fine suits and provided him with the insight to revoke his staunch conservative opinions and adopt a liberalistic , casual , ‘ don't-give-a-fuck approach to life ’ . |
| 23 | Thorndyke predicted that this last condition would be the most difficult to understand and to remember and that the story condition would be the easiest . |
| 24 | In it , his recently-prepared chart of the Atlantic Ocean showed that this huge stretch of water was shallower in the centre than at the edges . |
| 25 | The success of the Dutch in the West Indian sugar trade in the 1640s showed that this natural monopoly of the colonies ' trade would not last any longer , so English shipbuilders were gratified to find that the Navigation Act would limit the colonial trade to English ships . |
| 26 | Although that sort of thing is nominally catered for by most electrical equipment , using spike suppression and smoothing circuitry , I reckoned that this particular computer was not up to the job of coping with the dirty mains , and so an uninterruptible power source was thought to be the only feasible answer . |
| 27 | Anyway , I reckoned that this unexpected development might make my task a little easier . |
| 28 | the authors speculated that this partisan dealignment reflected a continuing erosion of the class-party tie . |
| 29 | Jaq prayed that this Harlequin man might lead him to it . |
| 30 | Yogic masters have described the movement of pre-physical matter as ‘ circulatory ’ , and Democritas , Greek philosopher of the late fifth century BC and a pupil of the esoteric school , taught that this gyratory movement of the atoms and spheres existed from eternity . |