Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus although news executives continued to value ‘ scoops ’ , Tunstall found in the 1970s that among journalists themselves , it was more important not to come last with the news than to be first with it ( Tunstall , 1971 ) . |
| 2 | She registered of a sudden that she was bitterly cold . |
| 3 | John Plamenatz announced enthusiastically that " the voice of the people is heard everlastingly " through the spokespersons of these organizations , and Robert Dahl believed in the 1950s that the United States possessed " a political system in which all the active and legitimate groups in the population can make themselves heard at some critical stage in the process of decision " . |
| 4 | Perhaps the multitude of coal-pits near the Tyne were beginning to wear that look , and Camden observed in the 1580s that Sussex ‘ is full of iron mines , all over it ; for the casting of which there are furnaces up and down the country , and abundance of wood is yearly spent ; many streams are drawn into one channel , and a great deal of meadow ground is turned into ponds and pools for the driving mills by the flashes , which , beating with hammers upon the iron , fill the neighbourhood round about it , night and day with continual noise . ’ |
| 5 | We argued from the above that the two should correlate closely if the neutrophils are seeking a mucosal chemoattractant , less so if the chemoattractant is in the lumen , in which case the inflammation should be disproportionally greater than the blood loss . |
| 6 | The immediate impulse was the prospect which arose in the 1830s that Canada might go the same way of rebellion as the American colonies . |
| 7 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 8 | Jenks argued in the 1950's that these latter policies became less relevant when set against the need to promote the systematic development of international law through the conclusion of multipartite law-making treaties . |
| 9 | Mr. Gardiner submitted as an alternative that even if the Woolwich principle did not apply , nevertheless the payment to the revenue was made under duress and was therefore recoverable . |
| 10 | And we were looking at how this top corner of the map related to the surrounding that those those erm reference points east north and west do relate to the open land outside of that . |
| 11 | The British ambassador to Vienna complained in the 1780s that he had not received a line in reply to fifty despatches he had sent home ; and when he returned to London he " was under the utmost Astonishment at having been twice to the Secretary of State 's Office without finding a single Soul there " . |
| 12 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 13 | Bishop Rathier of Verona wrote in the 930s that the church was one in all its bishops ; that not Jerusalem , not Rome , not Alexandria , had received a special prerogative of rule to the exclusion of others ( he tucks Rome pointedly into the middle ) . |
| 14 | The stern Quaker historian of Liskeard , Allen , wrote in the 1850's that ‘ all these idle , absurd practices were abandoned about the same time , early in the present century ’ . |
| 15 | Mr. Morgan said to the deceased that he , the deceased , had not yet signed . |
| 16 | I said on the 14th that the equivalent of 25 million tonnes of coal gas contracts had been given , with a further equivalent of 10 million tonnes lying on the table for the Secretary of State to sanction . |