Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the televised hearings on Aug. 30 the three bankers each admitted that lax credit controls had contributed to their banks ' involvement in the recent scandals . |
| 2 | The Times 12.1.90 reported that public health labs have found that up to 60% of all uncooked chickens in shops are contaminated by Salmonella and Listeria . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While many people expressed dissatisfaction and anger with government training policies , some argued that current training policies can be used fruitfully by and for local people . |
| 5 | Putting up posters and shouting slogans about democracy had done little in the past to achieve the students ' goal but in 1980 , some believed that substantial change could be achieved if the limited opportunities presented by the Gengshen reforms were seized . |
| 6 | A US Congressional Research Service report cited in the Middle East Economic Digest of March 22 stated that current food stocks in Iraq were at a record low . |
| 7 | This stated that full consideration would be given to ‘ any social or other problems that may arise ’ , but that ‘ the general policy would be for the Secretary of State to approve proposals to cease to maintain under-used schools . ’ |
| 8 | This indicated that PABA-UDCA disulphate is a single pass type substance in the gut and its oral administration test reflects the sum of the activities of bacteria in the small intestine and colon . |
| 9 | At best , this focused that subtle blend of doctrine and awareness of its living reality defended by Walter Hilton and Reginald Pecock , at worst it encouraged the superstitious substitute for the work of faith which was labelled idolatry by the Lollards , those enthusiasts for the study of Scripture who tended to confuse its letter with its spirit . |
| 10 | This meant that fund-raising news and any other news about the deaf was in the forefront of everyone 's attention . |
| 11 | Because of its target-towing days in Sweden the rear cockpit was slightly non-standard , this meant that new perspex panels had to be manufactured to bring the rear cockpit back to Mk 1 configuration , the target cable guides on the tailplane were removed and the tailplane restored to standard fit . |
| 12 | This meant that used water was not directly plumbed into the outside drain but linked into the sink waste . |
| 13 | This meant that substantial building-up would be needed , to allow the water to escape . |
| 14 | This meant that fine tuning of the system in many areas , particularly on the personnel side , had to be held in abeyance until the payroll was running smoothly . |
| 15 | This suggested that unlike adult cancers , childhood cancers were not caused by factors in the environment . |
| 16 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 showed that large scale industry is more fragile than crofting . |
| 17 | The involvement of the mujaheddin as part of the multinational force engaged in the Gulf war was criticized by the government which in February 1991 declared that military action in the Gulf had exceeded the mandate of UN Resolution 678 . |
| 18 | In 1363 Edward III ordered that regular training at the butts should take the place of football ; a century later , in 1456 , the difficulties experienced in Scotland in summoning and arming a proper fighting force were recognised in the proscription of football and golf in favour of archery practice . |
| 19 | The OECD in its report published in July 1991 said that economic growth had slowed in 1990 to 3.5 per cent compared with growth of 4 per cent in 1989 . |
| 20 | The Foreign Ministry on March 21 announced that International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) operations in Iran were to be frozen and all its 15 staff were to leave the country by March 28 . |
| 21 | Spectroscopic measurements in 1960 indicated that small-scale motion of the plasma was producing the doppler broadening of the spectral lines . |
| 22 | The younger said that religious experience was too valid to be dismissed by mere reason , that reason was not all of humanity . |
| 23 | The so-called Culture and Personality school of the 1920s , 1930s , and 1940s held that human behaviour was the provenance of culture , not of race , and attempts were made to relate traits of individual personality and symbolic aspects of culture to socialization variables ( Lipsey 1985 : 180 ) . |
| 24 | An influential report by Professor Jurg Niehans in February 1981 argued that monetary policy was in fact excessively tight because the high interest rates were attracting foreign money to London and maintaining a high pound . |
| 25 | Tass on Oct. 4 announced that military intelligence operations were being cut by more than 10 per cent with surplus resources reportedly being transferred to the KGB 's new Directorate for the Defence of the Soviet Constitutional System . |
| 26 | LGB circulars of 1895 and 1899 recommended that out-door relief should be granted more readily to the aged poor . |
| 27 | Just as plainly effective were Danny and Wiston ; different though they were in minor detail and execution , they all shared that plain symmetry and order which the Tudor gentry sought to give to a turbulent society . |
| 28 | The reorganization of local government described in Chapter 4 confirmed that local government was indeed part of a much wider state system , and the 1973 oil crisis followed by the onset of economic depression deepened the pressures on that system . |
| 29 | Of 60 fund managers asked last year , 55 did not regard IR officers as their primary company contacts ; 33 thought that British industry did not need any more IR consultants . |
| 30 | In a recent survey one in five incontinent women were afraid that they smelt and one in nine believed that sexual activity was compromised . |