Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " 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 | For example : Law 2 argued that urban areas will absorb the population of first their immediate rural areas and then even the remote areas ; Law 6 stated that urban dwellers are less migratory than rural inhabitants ; and Law 5 argued that migrants proceeding long distances generally migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 6 | This proposed that mid-oceanic ridges represent regions where new oceanic crust is being generated by the upwelling of hot mantle material . |
| 7 | The Financial Times of Nov. 22 reported that 17 people had been killed since the outbreak of disturbances in late October . |
| 8 | The Financial Times of Sept. 22 reported that pro-Chinese associations had won 12 of the 16 elective seats . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This assumed that young people embarked upon a particular ‘ career ’ because they had ‘ chosen ’ it : that it was a product of their own internal decision-making processes . |
| 12 | A French government report released on July 2 showed that foreign orders for French weapons had soared by 70 per cent in 1990 to F33,400 million ( US$5,400 million ) , largely because of the Gulf war . |
| 13 | One answer was that the riots in 1980 in Bristol followed by others in Toxteth , Moss Side and Handsworth in 1981 and Tottenham , Handsworth and Bristol in 1985 showed that young people could be a very real threat to the social order as well as just a symbolic one . |
| 14 | This confirmed that these junctions were unaltered at the nucleotide level ( data not shown ) , indicating that integration had indeed occurred by homologous recombination . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Reports on April 30 confirmed that allied forces had expanded their military presence 30 km east of Zakho towards the Turkish border . |
| 17 | This showed that deaf school-leavers , educated orally , had an average reading age of eight and three quarters and that only about ten per cent of their speech was intelligible to a hearing person . |
| 18 | and et all ( 362 , 355 & 359 ; 1993 showed that these organs ( among others ) are sites at which the virus multiplies during the often long latency period in AIDS , but more will have to be known of this process before it can be the basis of a routine assay . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | This indicated that Inner London and County libraries were most likely to regard themselves as offering formal induction training , County libraries were more likely to say that they offered formal training of most types , and that Outer London and Metropolitan libraries made most distinction between training offered to professional and non-professional staff , Scottish , Welsh and Northern Ireland libraries , least . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This meant that fund-raising news and any other news about the deaf was in the forefront of everyone 's attention . |
| 24 | This meant that each subject area covered , from economics through to emergency planning , always ended with several days of ordinary people getting up to have their say . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This meant that new buildings would often incorporate , for example , safety-oriented features such as computer-controlled fire alarm and sprinkler systems which not only reduced the risk of fire but , when fire did break out , ensured it was containable until the emergency services arrived . |
| 27 | This meant that used water was not directly plumbed into the outside drain but linked into the sink waste . |
| 28 | This meant that criminal laws were clarified and in some countries codified , as both Beccaria and Bentham advocated , but leaving a greater degree of flexibility and judicial discretion than either would have found congenial . |
| 29 | This meant that substantial building-up would be needed , to allow the water to escape . |
| 30 | This meant that reserve assets had to be at least 12½ per cent of eligible liabilities . |