Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Facing his first annual meeting as IBM Corp 's chairman and chief executive , Louis Gerstner did not mince words , telling the Tampa assembly that the company 's very survival had been called into question in the past year , but promised that although the company 's reputation was temporarily tarnished , it will remain strong thanks to its worldwide base — ‘ It would be a great mistake for naysayers to underestimate IBM , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 2 | A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) . |
| 3 | Daedalus mused that if the metal was not uniformly heated , upwelling convection cells would form within it . |
| 4 | Deborah maintained that if the company wished to keep hold of its original and still loyal customers , now in the thirty-plus age bracket , and looking for more elegant attire , it had a lot of ground to make up . |
| 5 | He also mentioned that when the guitar reaches full production level , a care kit will be included with each one — which comes as something of a relief , because at present I would be nervous about approaching this instrument even with something as seemingly innocuous as furniture polish . |
| 6 | I went to the alpine Club library in London and found that while the mountain does n't have the drama of the Matterhorn or the Eiger , there had been a lot of activity on it in the Golden Age . |
| 7 | The House of Commons Select Committee on Education found that although the Act had enhanced the position of parents in many respects , there were ‘ still situations in which parents feel their contribution … to be insufficient or ineffective ’ . |
| 8 | He found that although the coincidence of business and political cycles was " very marked " with respect to the United States , New Zealand and Germany , this was not the case with respect to Britain because pressing action on the balance of payments swamped the cycle of economic policy-making revolving around elections . |
| 9 | In a randomised blinded phase I/II trial comparing Ro-24-7429 with nucleoside RT inhibitors in 96 patients ( CD4 50–500/L ) , Haubrich et al ( California , USA ) found that although the drug was well tolerated , it was ineffective in producing either a rise in CD4 count or a fall in p24 antigen activity . |
| 10 | This judgment , implicitly criticizing the Aug. 6 order , found that whereas the President had allowed the Punjab and Baluchistan assemblies ( controlled by opponents of the PPP ) to dissolve themselves , those of Sind and the NWFP ( both dominated by the PPP ) were summarily dismissed [ see p. 37652 ] . |
| 11 | They found that where the market value was 85 per cent or less of that predicted by the model , shares outperformed the market . |
| 12 | He found that when a hen has decided where to nest , she works her whole body about to mould a comfortable shape , then pecks up more loose stuff to tuck in around her . |
| 13 | Additionally , he found that when a horse discovered that the messages it was trying to convey were understood , either by another horse or by a person , its range of communication could be extended considerably . |
| 14 | Preliminary investigation found that when a topic is closed two options for the ensuing course of the interaction may be relevant : making a definite move to close the whole conversation , or beginning a new topic by actively searching for something to keep the conversation going . |
| 15 | Home Office researcher Simon Field studied 40 years of statistics and found that when the temperature rose a few degrees Celsius above normal : |
| 16 | He found that when the predator shows a strong preference for one prey , as N. emarginata does for Mytilus edulis over M. callfornianus , no amount of laboratory training will alter this . |
| 17 | He arranged the pictures used in advertising into some fifty categories and found that whilst a representation of men and women embracing was most common there were no representatives at all of people at work . |
| 18 | A friend of mine once returned to her house after a few month 's absence and found that though the font of her desk looked exactly the same as before she left , termites had eaten out the back of it and destroyed the contents of several drawers . |
| 19 | Cross-examined by the defence QC , Donald Macfadyen , Mr Runciman disagreed that after the executive committee meeting , while he had decided a profits warning should be issued , the two other members had not made up their minds . |
| 20 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 9 reported that although the decision to cancel Netherlands aid had been taken by President Suharto , it was widely supported by the government and bureaucracy . |
| 21 | Davy reported that if a candle were surrounded by a wire gauze mesh , the gas would diffuse into the gauze enclosed space and burn there without exploding . |
| 22 | He reported that if a house caught fire nobody attempted to put it out because they were all concentrating on protecting the cats , forming up in lines to prevent the panic-stricken animals from running into the flames and burning themselves . |
| 23 | The radio reported that when the back-up unit had arrived the block of shops was on fire . |
| 24 | Speaking after the news that the Liberal Democrats had taken Cheltenham , he prophesied that before the night was out there would be many more new Liberal Democrat Members of Parliament . |
| 25 | Her cosmic vision prophesied that as the race evolved intercourse would only be practised for the purpose of reproduction , and then only at carefully spaced intervals under women 's direction . |
| 26 | Nothing was said publicly , but from now on he realized that if the Council lasted more than one session , he would not be present to see it through . |
| 27 | The Lieutenant opined that when the science was properly understood all promotion in the army would be based on careful skull measurements . |
| 28 | This time , Ridley 's decision was quashed ; the three Appeal Judges agreed that if a minister departed from a clearly stated policy he had to explain why — something Ridley had failed to do in this case . |
| 29 | But they also said the Jews would have a homeland in Palestine and agreed that when the war ended the French would control Syria and what was then called Mount Lebanon . |
| 30 | The papers I 've mentioned did make some suggestions , in particular Palmer , in his paper recommended that if the patient had a single tumour presentation and a negative three month cystoscopy , then subsequent cystoscopy could be performed yearly . |