Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This was welcomed by the head of the Open Software Foundation in Japan , Dr Rob Morel , who ventured that possibly the Foundation was better positioned than before as a ‘ truly independent standards organisation ’ .
2 Times are so hard at the Manor Ground that even the manager has had to return his club car .
3 McKeever , Suberi and Van Deventer ( 1972 ) replicated Hines 's experiment but found that neither the magnitude nor direction of visual field asymmetry was affected by the presence of a central fixation digit .
4 In any case a number of these old pupils found that neither the church nor the State made any provision for them , and agreed among themselves to meet together for prayer and worship .
5 When I came back to Scotland I found that generally the standard of club rugby was lower . ’
6 The bridge humbucker has been designed to give a very hot response indeed , and I found that even the centre single coil kicked the amp quite nicely .
7 Patterson found that only the problem child was permitted to be out of control in interaction with the parents , while all of the children were permitted to be out of control when interacting with each other .
8 The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ .
9 Under Irish law , abortion is a criminal offence and recently the courts ruled that even the provision of information on abortion is now illegal .
10 The report also disclosed that both the pilot and the controller on duty in the tower complained or poor reception of transmissions , apparently affected by bad atmospheric conditions .
11 The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one .
12 The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time .
13 I realised that almost the instant she left me . ’
14 In the second edition Dewey announced that henceforth the structure of the scheme would not be fundamentally changed .
15 He argued that even the procurement of raw materials from abroad should be subject to government control .
16 Halphen , who edited the text , believed that here the author was drawing on a vernacular epic ; this may well have been so , for in the late eleventh-century manuscript of the Song of Roland , Geoffrey featured as Charlemagne 's standard-bearer .
17 Consequently , Comte believed that both the necessity of government and its functions may be deduced from the principle of the division of labour .
18 It has had a changing intake and many staff believed that recently the ability range of pupils had fallen somewhat .
19 He added that nevertheless the electricity industry is pursuing its own and funding independent , research .
20 It seemed that now the process was under way her contribution was not required .
21 It seemed that only the weather could stop another blackwash .
22 Nevertheless , in our previous study performed in 36 symptomatic patients , we showed that neither the concentration of gastric platelet activating factor output or the content of platelet activating factor in the gastric mucosa were significantly related to the inflammatory cell infiltration in the gastric mucosa .
23 I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles .
24 Run-on transcription assays in isolated nuclei showed that both the plasmid and the ble gene were transcribed in an alpha-amanitin sensitive manner , in both procyclic and bloodstream stage transformants ( Fig. 5 ; compare lanes c and a in P-P and B-P ) .
25 Recent UN studies showed that both the government and rebel factions were involved in logging [ see ED 59/60 ] .
26 The results of this experiment showed that both the animacy of the actor and acted-upon , and whether actor or acted-upon was thematic , affected subjects ' use of passives .
27 Among ADAS 's five regions , the NAO discovered that only the south-west had a strategy for delivering public good advice on pollution , diversification and conservation .
28 One of the girls , today , she wasn' say she was n't sure , but she was saying that she heard that perhaps the exam structure you have to incorporate all three phases of the
29 When they reached Etaples and had pitched their tents for the night , Charlie decided that perhaps the gymnasium in Edinburgh had been luxury after all .
30 So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead .
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