Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another whispered that the policeman was wary , unsure of what to reveal and what to hide . |
| 2 | Some admitted that the creation of a " buffer group " of temporary workers actually enhanced the employment security of their " core " members ; indeed , some " temporary worker agreements " were also " no redundancy agreements " for the bulk for the workforce [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 3 | In Mainz an ordinance of 1788 announced that the elector would give general audiences every Monday at precisely 4 o'clock in the afternoon : at these every inhabitant of the electorate was entitled to attend and present in person any grievance he might have . |
| 4 | This revealed that the University Grants Committee , the UFC 's predecessor , had breached Treasury rules in allowing 20 universities to re-employ the lecturers and professors who had benefited from a £130 million early retirement programme . |
| 5 | This revealed that the management were ‘ concerned ’ that the post-60/65 group comprised 18 per cent of the industry compared with a national average of 3.5 per cent , and had offered ‘ solutions ’ . |
| 6 | Some argued that the shock made industry return in the end to competitiveness , but other economists argued that subsequent growth owed more to spending North Sea oil profits on a consumer boom . |
| 7 | Some argued that the case had been brought to an early end as there was little chance of the prosecution being successful , others suggesting that the case had in all but final verdict already been won . |
| 8 | Some argued that the situation demanded a stronger UN presence than the proposed 500-strong unarmed force . |
| 9 | Some argued that the Party should threaten to withdraw from the coalition unless the Tories accepted demands to extend war controls to the nationalization of major industries . |
| 10 | In return for this co-operation the French asked that the child queen should be affianced not to Edward VI but to the Dauphin of France , and that she should be brought up there . |
| 11 | On April 25 this reported that the security forces were to blame for provoking violence from what had been previously a peaceful crowd by making baton charges . |
| 12 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Nov. 2 reported that the government had recently banned the shipment of all goods , including food and medicines , to Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 13 | The Guardian of Aug. 2 reported that the government was to provide a further Fl650 million for energy conservation in addition to the Fl1,000 million already allocated annually for the programme . |
| 14 | Some believed that the politics of class would bring little advantage to themselves . |
| 15 | Some noticed that the cereal packets were wider or longer than soap packets . |
| 16 | A UN report published on May 2 estimated that the process of reconstruction would take at least 10 years [ see pp. 37987 ; 38118 ; 38166 ] , and that the Iraqi occupation had cost Kuwait US$8,500 million . |
| 17 | The original legislation passed in 1985 stipulated that the deficit must be reduced to $36bn in the 1990 fiscal year which began on 1 October . |
| 18 | Although the case for an annulment was weak in terms of canon law , it was politically expedient for the pope to concede and few believed that the request would be denied . |
| 19 | Initially few believed that the favourite would lose the race , for the scrimmaging had clearly been caused by both parties , and odds of 4–1 were laid against the outsider getting the race . |
| 20 | He explained that the British envisaged that the union , having at its apex the European Council consisting of heads of government , would have beneath it distinct pillars of co-operation , with the Treaty of Rome and intergovernmental pillars representing respectively foreign and security policy co-operation and actions against drugs and terrorism overseen by interior and justice ministers . |
| 21 | However , press reports on Jan. 2 stated that the government had ordered a halt to all offensives against the Tamil Tigers . |
| 22 | Some claimed that the plan was underfunded by the multilateral institutions and that its call for debt-reduction agreements would encourage debtors to default on existing commitments , thus impeding the extension of new loans . |
| 23 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 24 | The French replied that the devastation and terrorism that continued was not all the fault of ‘ dissident ’ nationalist Vietnamese or bandits and although it might not have the status of an ‘ official ’ armed struggle the results were indistinguishable . |
| 25 | ‘ One of the best company seminars I have ever attended , ’ said one , while another commented that the seminar ‘ helped fill a large gap in understanding of LASMO 's business ’ . |
| 26 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 27 | This showed that the way he used himself when reciting had a marked effect on his voice and breathing . |
| 28 | This showed that the radiation must come from beyond the Solar System , and even from beyond the galaxy , as otherwise it would vary as the movement of Earth pointed the detector in different directions . |
| 29 | This showed that the bigram matrix is 53% full , whereas less than 5% of the trigram transitions are found in the LOB corpus . |
| 30 | This stated that the government had lost the confidence of the majority in parliament and urged it to resign . |