Example sentences of "[vb past] that [adv] [art] [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 ‘ Parts of the Chambers Street building are 130 years-old and we found that virtually no maintenance had been carried out .
8 Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) .
9 When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit .
10 The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented .
11 Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money .
12 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 .
13 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 ’ .
14 Under Irish law , abortion is a criminal offence and recently the courts ruled that even the provision of information on abortion is now illegal .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time .
18 I realised that almost the instant she left me . ’
19 Viktor Kirichenko , the chair of the Supreme Soviet 's budget commission , announced that virtually every republic was withholding some or all of its contributions , and that the government had resorted to raising credit and running up a Rbs35,000 million deficit to cover expenditure .
20 In the second edition Dewey announced that henceforth the structure of the scheme would not be fundamentally changed .
21 And bosses revealed that only a deal with Taiwan had prevented the number of job losses being DOUBLED.The shock move means BAe 's factory in Hatfield will shut by the end of next year .
22 He argued that even the procurement of raw materials from abroad should be subject to government control .
23 Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis .
24 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 .
25 Consequently , Comte believed that both the necessity of government and its functions may be deduced from the principle of the division of labour .
26 It has had a changing intake and many staff believed that recently the ability range of pupils had fallen somewhat .
27 He added that nevertheless the electricity industry is pursuing its own and funding independent , research .
28 It seemed that now the process was under way her contribution was not required .
29 If disputes within the party over policy and doctrine were one symptom of Conservative confusion , another was the ‘ legion of leagues ’ which appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when it seemed that hardly a year went by without the founding of some new right-wing association .
30 It seemed that only the weather could stop another blackwash .
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