Example sentences of "[vb past] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many years ago Fathalla proposed that repeated minor trauma to ovarian epithelium caused by ‘ incessant ovulation ’ increased the risk of cancer . |
| 2 | However , Johns found that translated Brazilian abstracts tend to follow textbook rules of grammar which favour ‘ consistent ’ use of tense and aspect . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 1986 ) and Vernon and Fruin ( 1986 ) all found that field social workers , and sometimes residential workers , associated the provision of care for children and young people with failure , and thought that good social work practice meant avoiding the use of care , especially residential care . |
| 5 | They found that field social workers were on the whole critical of the residential experience . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They soon found that running Easy FM was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 8 | In advanced diabetic nephropathy Björk et al reported that enalapril reduced proteinuria more effectively than metoprolol , while the hypotensive effect of both drugs was similar . |
| 9 | Saxon et al reported that IgG perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies could be detected in the sera of the majority of patients with ulcerative colitis and in a much smaller percentage of the sera of patients with Crohn 's disease . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Under the chairmanship of Prince Norodom Sihanouk , the SNC agreed that UN-supervised regional elections in Cambodia 's 20 provinces should be held on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 12 | Opponents argued that teaching other languages , especially those spoken at home , would impede the ability of children to speak and write English . |
| 13 | Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s , he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction . |
| 14 | While the Treasury was warning of a " continuing mountain of difficulties " for some years to come , the Foreign Office argued that to reduce overseas commitments would only make matters worse . |
| 15 | DARWIN believed that elaborate ornamental traits expressed in both sexes might be favoured by mutual sexual selection driven by both female and male mate choice . |
| 16 | He promised additional internal measures , including special courts , secure prisons and special protection for judges , but added that increased international co-operation was needed to spread the financial cost of drug enforcement in order to ensure stricter controls on drug distribution networks , money laundering , and the sale of arms and chemical components . |
| 17 | The group estimated that bringing coaxial links into the average British home would cost between £200 and £300 . |
| 18 | In a statement on April 22 designed to convince a visiting fact-finding mission from the Organization of American States ( OAS ) [ see below ] of his democratic intent , he promised to submit his decision to a plebiscite on July 5 , and pledged that proposed constitutional reforms would also be subjected to the popular vote on Aug. 31 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Choice of ursodeoxycholic acid dose — As full dose ( 10 mg kg - 1 day - 1 , ursodeoxycholic acid dissolves cholesterol gall stones , we reasoned that continued full dose treatment should prevent gall stone recurrence indefinitely — unless the patient developed ‘ acquired tolerance ’ to the oral bile acid treatment . |
| 21 | Multivariate analysis showed that mean corpuscular volume , bilirubin concentrations , and hypoalbuminaemia were independently associated with laminin concentrations . |
| 22 | Finally , the multivariate analysis showed that mean corpuscular volume ( p=0.01 ) , hypoalbuminaemia ( p=0.01 ) , and bilirubin concentrations ( p=0.005 ) were independently associated with serum laminin concentrations , whereas asparate ammotransferase activity and portal hypertension were not . |
| 23 | A recent study in rats , which considered effects of gastric secretion , showed that pronounced duodenogastric reflux ( induced by a split gastrojejunostomy ) was associated with hyperplasia and adenoma development in the pancreas after 14 months . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | THE secretary general , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , overruling the UN relief official for Bosnia , yesterday ordered that suspended humanitarian aid be resumed as soon as possible . |
| 26 | The court heard that forged American Express and Visa Gold cards were used to run up huge bills at the restaurants . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Sabine felt that betraying flush rise in her cheeks again . |