Example sentences of "[vb past] that [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Against this , some studies in the United States , where formal study of " civics " is more extensive than in Britain , found that taking such courses had little impact on political knowledge and attitudes . |
2 | And instead of finding it miserable and increasing the fear , we found that taking vigorous action to make the best of what we had made us feel proud . |
3 | Always a determined character , he gave up alcohol and smoking the day he pulled on his running shoes , and he quickly found that running long distances was his forte , and that it provided a challenge to fit his temperament . |
4 | They soon found that running Easy FM was n't as easy as it sounded . |
5 | Last week , Col. Digby was re-elected chairman of the EHIPA and reported that following last year 's district council elections the Independents now held the balance . |
6 | In the light of these concerns , and the dismal outlook of many , it is perhaps unsurprising that only 28 per cent agreed that helping older people to live as long as possible should be a priority issue . |
7 | The other participants from Japan acknowledged that the country 's CATV regulations make it difficult to obtain public access , but agreed that awakening public interest through seminars and publications is an important first step . |
8 | Opponents argued that teaching other languages , especially those spoken at home , would impede the ability of children to speak and write English . |
9 | The group estimated that bringing coaxial links into the average British home would cost between £200 and £300 . |
10 | One senior consultant stated that taking this hour to reflect on his role as a teacher and trainer was a unique experience in his career . |
11 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
12 | The Minister will recall that during the first Tory recession , Ministers claimed that making many people redundant was a price worth paying to make British industry leaner and fitter . |
13 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , which blames leaching from the sites for much of the pollution of waterways , commented that meeting statutory requirements on water quality would now be " much more difficult " . |
14 | The Higher Labour Court decided that having extramarital affairs with married women was not a violation of the contract of employment that would justify a dismissal , as this would have the effect of punishing someone for interfering in marital relations , which the German Code of Civil Procedure would not permit . |
15 | An anonymous respondent , similarly reticent about details of search firms ' names , agreed that ‘ large buys prestige in the eyes of candidates ’ , but warned that using these firms ‘ tends to restrict the choice of employer ’ from which to hunt and find candidates . |
16 | It 's a good artist 's sketch of a building , ’ he said , but warned that giving more money to Congress was like giving an alcoholic a liquor store . |
17 | WHITBREAD , the brewer and retailer , yesterday warned that mounting bad debts in its economically-troubled heartland of southern England will force it to make provisions totalling about £47m in the full-year to the end of February . |
18 | ‘ In particular ’ said Dr Kibler ‘ we 're seeing more problems with younger players who have not fully matured physically ’ , and he warned that introducing heavier balls could make the problem even worse . |
19 | These were played by a beam of laser light rather than a stylus , and Philips saw that combining digital audio with laser disc technology would be a great improvement upon the Dolby Cassette and the LP . |
20 | Sabine felt that betraying flush rise in her cheeks again . |
21 | The reason she gave for this was that she felt that experiencing repeated failure was bad for pupils . |
22 | But I knew they came from my convict , and I felt that having criminal friends made me more common than ever . |
23 | But they stressed that bringing civil servants to Canary Wharf would not necessarily save the project and added that the Government wanted Canary Wharf or any future owner to pay the £400m needed for an extension of London Underground 's Jubilee Line to Docklands . |
24 | He knew that recording this observation in line , tone , texture and colour , using a variety of materials , was essential if the looking was to become keen enough to lead to deeper understanding . |
25 | I thought that controlling rebellious minorities was a step that all countries would have to take , but I found that if people discuss and compromise then most disagreements can be solved quite easily . |
26 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
27 | And Michael Balcon , now convinced that making big-budget films to please the Americans was a sure way for the British film industry to commit suicide , began a campaign through the Cinematograph Films Council to draw attention to the amount of control Rank , with his dangerous policies , now had over the film industry . |
28 | So it appeared that making muonic hydrogen would be straight-forward . |
29 | Gerashchenko warned of the dangers of letting enterprises go bankrupt , but government officials said that approving new credit could undermine agreement with the IMF to restrict the budget deficit to 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
30 | A report in the Israeli media on Nov. 8 said that following these elections a communiqué issued by the Hamas leadership in the diaspora referred to the importance of a " quiet dialogue " between Hamas and the PLO in order to avoid the violent public clashes between their members . |