Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] that [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gummer admitted that current estimates of traffic growth , and hence traffic-related pollution , were incompatible with sustainability . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | At 11.57 ITN reported that 12 results were now in . |
| 8 | In Magdeburg he and Matthies found that 2-Dgal injections produced amnesia in rats . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Thorndyke argued that bridging inferences should be stored as an integral part of a subject 's memory of a passage . |
| 13 | Thorndyke argued that such stories are easy to remember because they have a particular structure . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Through his work , Freud realised that some taboos of the time were much more commonly breached than was acknowledged by society . |
| 18 | Singh proposed that industrial licences be abolished except in certain strategic sectors such as the arms industry , atomic energy and strategic minerals . |
| 19 | A new survey recently published by the CIOB found that three quarters of the members surveyed believed that the banks have a negative policy towards the construction industry . |
| 20 | Hydro reported that net profits in the third quarter of 1991 were NKr 39m ( £1 = NKr 11 ) , compared with NKr 101.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
| 21 | American reviewers also found evidence of fraud and misrepresentation in peer review assessments ( Crawford & Stucki ) , in similar conditions to those already commented on in the UFC Report , and , in keeping with their greater use of information technology , Crawford & Stucki found that online communications and fax machines were contributory factors . |
| 22 | On Jan. 21 Radio Mogadishu reported that 7,275 tonnes of food aid awaiting distribution in the city 's port had been looted . |
| 23 | Strauss maintained that both approaches were equally shallow . |
| 24 | In a major study of institutionalised delinquents ( delinquents in some form of custody ) in the USA in the 1950s , Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck found that delinquent boys were twice as likely to have a mesomorphic build , a chunky , muscular physique , compared with non-delinquent boys . |
| 25 | On Jan. 27 Radio Rwanda reported that 120 rebels had been killed in fighting in the Kinigi region . |
| 26 | Hubble noted that certain types of stars always have the same luminosity when they are near enough for us to measure ; therefore , he argued , if we found such stars in another galaxy , we could assume that they had the same luminosity — and so calculate the distance to that galaxy . |
| 27 | Major appealed to him to withdraw the threat to break off talks with the South African government [ see above ] , but at a press conference Mandela reiterated that such negotiations would cease on May 9 unless de Klerk acted to halt township violence . |
| 28 | Carleton believed that hard-line Protestants like himself were the queen 's only reliable subjects , her very ‘ bowels ’ . |
| 29 | In his own published letter relating to the episode Major Wiseman stated that three planes had taken off , had been unable to locate the dropping zone , had turned back , and that one had failed to return and ‘ was presumed shot down in the Channel ’ . |
| 30 | President Snegur stated that Russian officers living in the Dnestr region would be allowed to serve in the Moldovan national armed forces , and that units of these armed forces would be stationed in eastern Moldova ( i.e. the Dnestr republic ) . |