Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [that] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revenue authorities maintained that these persons were ‘ male servants ’ in respect of whom licence duties were payable under the Revenue Act 1869 ( 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14 ) . |
| 2 | The research into investigation of possible child abuse cases demonstrated that these ideas did tend to influence the kinds of questions that were asked , and the way in which ‘ evidence ’ was interpreted . |
| 3 | His 1911 book Political Parties argued that these organizations supposedly committed to ushering in democratic organization in fact showed all the essential characteristics of bureaucratic organizations , and a separation between leaders and led every bit as pronounced as that prevailing in industry or state agencies . |
| 4 | Liberal Club supporters protested that these moves would call into question the mandate of elected Civic Forum parliamentary deputies , and would thereby provoke a constitutional crisis . |
| 5 | Doing business in several countries meant holding a variety of currencies while good communication between the ‘ local ’ branches meant that these holdings could be moved to wherever the return was at its best . |
| 6 | For years , researchers assumed that these preferences were learned , and that men simply thought it was more manly to choose meat over ‘ wimpy ’ treats such as cream cakes and pastries . |
| 7 | Stocks hypothesised that these findings could be related to the nature of the coal mined in these different areas . |
| 8 | Using an analogy fashionable at the time the Gestalt psychologists maintained that these distortions were due to interactions between ‘ electric ’ fields induced in the visual cortex by the stimuli . |
| 9 | Many officials believed that these disturbances were prompted by needless interference with traditional society . |
| 10 | Commenting on the report , the Financial Times remarked that these sectors are identified as dominating the thrust towards a post-industrial society , and as : ‘ spearheading the second industrial revolution , and settling employment trends , such as part-time working , job sharing and decentralisation ’ ( Financial Times , 5 February , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | On July 18 , 1990 , Dublin Courts ordered that these costs be lowered to £23,000 . |
| 12 | Animal experiments showed that these movements could be elicited repeatedly by stimulation at the same place . |
| 13 | US official sources predicted that these measures alone would reduce carbon emissions by 15 per cent . |
| 14 | Meanwhile on Feb. 25 Armenian troops had taken the village of Khodzhaly , north of Stepanakert , and Azeri sources claimed that these troops had murdered more than 1,000 of the town 's fleeing Azeri inhabitants . |
| 15 | Cloning and sequencing experiments confirmed that these transcripts are indeed derived from productively or non-productivity rearranged TCR -α genes ( data not shown ) . |
| 16 | Recently our campaign on mental health problems showed that these people can recover in much the same way as people who have physical health problems . |
| 17 | Soviet writers observed that these resolutions corresponded with resolutions on eliminating foreign bases in the Third World adopted in the UN General Assembly ( for example at the Twenty-First Session in December 1965 ) and described them as part of the broader ‘ struggle against imperialism ’ . |
| 18 | Critics argued that these estimates were wildly optimistic or that the original figures were far too low . |
| 19 | In the early days of man 's evolution natural forces ensured that these individuals were weeded out of the human race and could not reproduce , but science has altered all that , made it possible to rear such frail specimens . |
| 20 | The complexity of the issues meant that these matters could not be dealt with by popular vote . |
| 21 | The assumption within the KMT was that the " old men " of the party would disappear by " natural processes " , but the election results suggested that these processes were not rapid enough to appease either the growing sense of Taiwanese nationalism in the country or the related impatience at the slow pace of democratization . |
| 22 | Prosecution attorneys argued that these plea bargains and inducements were little different from procedures followed to obtain convictions of other " kingpin " drugs traffickers , including Lehder himself in 1988 . |
| 23 | Many women believed that these reforms involved transforming the whole tenor of English public life and creating an ethical and moral climate founded on the teachings of religion . |
| 24 | In the eighteenth century the first modern novelists recognized that these genres could be used to tell a story . |