Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [adj] [noun] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , an awareness that Japan was acutely vulnerable to threats of superior force , a resentment that Japan was considered inferior because she did not conform to Western standards and models , and a perception that other nations were prepared to act ‘ unfairly ’ to maximize the advantages that could be gained from any particular situation , made Japan determined to achieve equal status with the so-called Great Powers , or indeed , to surpass them . |
| 3 | It was said in Wickrithe that all Demdykes were crazy , but Aunt Sarah disproved that . |
| 4 | With regard to the secondary school curriculum , the Yellow Paper maintained that too much scope had been given to the principle of pupil choice , with the result that many pupils were following unbalanced programmes and not enough pupils were studying science-based and technological subjects . |
| 5 | However , within 24 hours Congress approved and Bush signed legislation ordering an end to the strike , with the result that most railworkers were back at work on the morning of April 18 . |
| 6 | Their arrest followed press reports of allegations by unidentified members of the opposition that private armies were being assembled by people close to the government , including the former Minister of Energy and IndustryKiprono Nicholas K. Biwott [ for whose dismissal from office see p. 38563 ] . |
| 7 | Bearing in mind that these remarks were made before the new section 69(1) was introduced by the Act of 1986 , I do not see that they can be regarded as carrying the matter any further . |
| 8 | Bearing in mind that these clients were ‘ at risk of residential care ’ , most received only one or at the most two services , and then only for certain days in the week ( p. 299 ) . |
| 9 | To grasp the overall picture of the weaponry and armour available to the knights and soldiers of Barbarossa 's armies , one must summarise the development of equipment during the period concerned , bearing in mind that any changes were not universal and immediate , and that arms and armour of both older and more recent styles would have happily co-existed . |
| 10 | Sterling calmer : The pound won respite from last week 's onslaught partly due to confirmation that retail sales were subdued last month and as fears of a rise in interest rates faded . |
| 11 | THE POUND won some respite yesterday from last week 's onslaught partly due to confirmation that retail sales were subdued last month and as fears of an imminent rise in base rates faded . |
| 12 | The Iraqi media were already under strict government control before the war , and there was no indication that additional controls were imposed . |
| 13 | The large number of court cases in which the complainant dropped the prosecution is an indication that many cases were settled informally . |
| 14 | In the capital , Amman , demonstrators attacked the US embassy and a number of breweries , an indication that Islamic fundamentalists were heavily involved in the rioting . |
| 15 | Through open windows or balcony doors came the mingled sounds of pots clattering and televisions blaring , an indication that most families were having their evening meal . |
| 16 | There had been that unfortunate controversy in the local Press with the manager of the Palladium , when he had been compelled , under pressure from his bishop , to issue a statement to the effect that all films were not necessarily harmful in the eyes of the Church . |
| 17 | Chris Fleetwood , chief executive of Darlington-based Whessoe told the briefing that larger companies were unlikely to be significantly affected his included . |
| 18 | As he reached his door he found his thoughts turning once more to the urgent problem of putting food in his belly , and a part of his mind registered with pleasure that these thoughts were at last supplanting the ones in which he alternately pined for Aset and visited unholy vengeance upon her . |
| 19 | Two broad themes were apparent : first , there was a growing recognition that elderly people were mentally and physically capable of far more than had been previously assumed , and that it was medically and socially possible for them to maintain an independent and active life . |
| 20 | Various local authorities began to introduce comprehensive schools in the 1950s , motivated sometimes by political and educational ideology but sometimes , particularly in rural areas , by a recognition that such schools were a more realistic response to local needs . |
| 21 | The Court was concerned to learn from counsel that these matters were not always adhered to in some courts . |
| 22 | Not only was it the case that many projects were already under way before ERDF resources were committed , but also member states were free to add ERDF aid to the national aid for the project ( individual additionality ) or to add such aid to national regional expenditure as a whole ( global additionality ) . |
| 23 | This and a similar arrangement by Kenneth II for lands in Lothian came to be regarded by the English as an admission that Scottish rulers were not equals but vassals in relation not merely to a few specific regions but to the whole of Scotland — which had never been contemplated by the Scottish signatories . |
| 24 | A minority were more fortunate , if one can take as reasonably accurate the report by the Commissariat of Agriculture that 109,705 peasants were taken out of the famine zone and settled on farming land in Siberia , the Ukraine , the Caucasus , and elsewhere . |
| 25 | agreed and accepted 's further comments and would report to his Division that these matters were under consideration by the National Education Committee . |
| 26 | The NSF began to examine the rate of mental hospital closures after the junior health minister Tim Yeo told Parliament that 29 hospitals were to shut by 1997 . |
| 27 | If Rutland was typical of agrarian society it would have been understood as a matter of course that most men were peasant farmers and smallholders ; indeed , husbandman was the commonest description there , followed by labourers and servants whose status was one of dependence , and landless peasants who did not conform to the stereotype of a society composed of small independent producers . |
| 28 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 29 | Therefore α appears to be non-zero and α 1 appears to be less that unity , which refutes the hypothesis that these expectations were rationally formed . |
| 30 | A strong impulse must exist within the personality for this kind of repetition to occur , and one of a new kind , for the unconscious worked according to the pleasure principle , and always sought to avoid painful experiences and to reduce tensions of the kind that these dreamers were reproducing for themselves when asleep . |