Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within three days of Lawrence 's succession Hawke announced that federal elections , due by the end of May 1990 , would be held on March 24 . |
| 2 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 3 | The Money Advice Funding Working Party under the chairmanship of Lord Ezra agreed that existing services were not capable of coping with the demand for advice . |
| 4 | In a leading case in 1969 , Lord Devlin agreed that reasonable suspicion could be based on information that would not generally be admissible in court . |
| 5 | US President Bush pledged a fresh US$645 million in humanitarian aid ( subject to approval by Congress ) , while Baker announced that 54 emergency airlifts of food and medicines from the USA would begin on Feb. 10 , although this was seen as a symbolic gesture rather than as a viable solution to the problem of food shortages in the CIS . |
| 6 | Tatarinov argued that all ministries and other governmental institutions should be obliged to produce detailed estimates for the year ahead at the time they submitted their annual accounts . |
| 7 | The NSP announced that 31 people , including students and teachers , had been indicted under the draconian anti-communist National Security Law . |
| 8 | Gummer admitted that current estimates of traffic growth , and hence traffic-related pollution , were incompatible with sustainability . |
| 9 | Gummer admitted that previous governments had largely failed to address the environmental agenda , and called for a " great debate " to help inform the government 's strategy on achieving sustainability . |
| 10 | In The Future of Socialism — and in a classic revisionist sentence — Anthony Crosland argued that democratic socialists , instead of fussing about ‘ glaring and conspicuous evils , squalor and injustice and distressed areas … have to fuss about the balance of payments , and incentives , and higher productivity ’ . |
| 11 | At 11.57 ITN reported that 12 results were now in . |
| 12 | HS reported that advance booking of laboratory space and facilities is desirable to optimise use . |
| 13 | In Magdeburg he and Matthies found that 2-Dgal injections produced amnesia in rats . |
| 14 | In his researches Watkins found that later features — such as pre-Reformation churches and crosses — also , rather curiously , fell on these supposed prehistoric alignments in addition to subsidiary ‘ confirmation points ’ like ancient crossroads , old fords and certain types of pond . |
| 15 | C. Taylor and W. Page Faulk found that such women often have white cell antigens ( HLA ) that are unusually similar to those of their husbands . |
| 16 | Jan Reedijk and co-workers at the state University of Leiden in the Netherlands found that cis- DDP could bond to two guanine bases in a small chain of single stranded DNA despite an intervening cyosine base ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 104 , p 2664 ) . |
| 17 | Such rationalisation initiatives created a turbulent period for ICI in 1991 , and Hampel reported that this process would continue in 1992 . |
| 18 | The EOC found that direct discrimination occurred when managers described the mobility requirement differently to men and women and made it more onerous for women to comply with it . |
| 19 | Paul Devereux argued that most UFOs and lights in the sky were n't flying saucers , but ‘ earth lights ’ , naturally occurring sentient phenomena , something like very big fireflies , I think . |
| 20 | De Candolle realized that all species have the potential to increase their numbers at the expense of rivals occupying the same territory . |
| 21 | Writing as a Marxist influenced by the philosopher Louis Althusser , Castells argued that urban sociology , especially that developed by the Chicago School , was ‘ ideological ’ By this he meant that urban sociologists had never stopped to ask what was actually theoretically significant about cities and city life . |
| 22 | Thorndyke argued that bridging inferences should be stored as an integral part of a subject 's memory of a passage . |
| 23 | Thorndyke argued that such stories are easy to remember because they have a particular structure . |
| 24 | On Aug. 24 the NEC announced that fresh elections would take place in three rounds between Sept. 12 and Sept. 26 , when voting would only be permitted on production of membership cards which would be issued to party members in the interim . |
| 25 | At his press conference Mitterrand announced that private investors would be allowed to acquire minority stakes in state industries to finance industrial investment and employment programmes . |
| 26 | Looking up from her tray of Chicken McNuggets and chips , Mo admitted that parliamentary question time had become a farce . |
| 27 | Some philosophers saw ‘ force ’ as more fundamental than matter , and Schelling argued that polar forces underlay all phenomena , and that apparent rest was really equilibrium . |
| 28 | Through his work , Freud realised that some taboos of the time were much more commonly breached than was acknowledged by society . |
| 29 | Spencer argued that sexual difference was a product of mankind 's successful adaptation to social survival and that it should be understood in terms of women 's individual evolution being arrested earlier than men 's to permit the conservation of their energies for reproduction . |
| 30 | Singh proposed that industrial licences be abolished except in certain strategic sectors such as the arms industry , atomic energy and strategic minerals . |