Example sentences of "[vb past] that [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that each woman had packed up her own cake to bring to the fête . |
| 2 | This proposed that mid-oceanic ridges represent regions where new oceanic crust is being generated by the upwelling of hot mantle material . |
| 3 | Atchley ( 1976 ) proposed that retired individuals have a ‘ hierarchy of goals ’ which give rise to their expectations , their behaviour and their sense of well-being . |
| 4 | Defant and Drummond proposed that these suites form where young ( 25Myr ) , hot oceanic lithosphere is subducted and melts , thus locally simulating the conditions that led to widespread crustal growth in the Archaean . |
| 5 | In 1954 , Armitage and Doll proposed that common cancers arise as a result of the accumulation of as many as seven events . |
| 6 | Halushka et al ( 1977 ) demonstrated that diabetic platelets synthesised greater amounts of prostaglandin E 2 in response to various agonists compared to platelets from matched control subjects . |
| 7 | Winder et al ( 1978 ) demonstrated that physical training decreased the amount of catecholamines released in humans , but it is not clear whether myometrial bloodflow is affected more than cotyledon bloodflow . |
| 8 | Green 's research reported in Swann ( 1985 ) demonstrated that intolerant teachers gave least time and attention to Afro-Caribbean boys and Asian girls , while a major investigation , Education for Some , documented that academically able Afro-Caribbean pupils were finding themselves relegated to lower bands and were being entered for examinations below their abilities , with teachers perceptions playing an important part in the discriminatory misallocation ( Eggleston et al . , |
| 9 | The research into investigation of possible child abuse cases demonstrated that these ideas did tend to influence the kinds of questions that were asked , and the way in which ‘ evidence ’ was interpreted . |
| 10 | In a prior experiment , we demonstrated that phonological coding did not occur with Korean letters . |
| 11 | The peaceful periods demonstrated that both sides had common interests . |
| 12 | Allegations were rife : evacuees complained of cruel and miserly hosts ; hosts maintained that many parents had deliberately sent children off in their worst clothes in order to arouse sympathy and gifts of replacement clothing . |
| 13 | Brian tried to think about all those theories — so abstruse to him — which maintained that unloved children became unloving mothers , abused children turned into abusers of their own offspring . |
| 14 | The report maintained that human rights continued to be violated in the territories , and cited house demolitions , deportations and collective restrictions . |
| 15 | He maintained that Latin America had already been drawn into the capitalist system in a dependent role , and that the activities of imperialism would ensure that it would retain this colonial status . |
| 16 | In this vein a Soviet commentator maintained that Vietnamese initiatives advanced by Prime Minister Pham Van Dong during talks in the ASEAN countries in autumn 1978 were supported by Soviet diplomacy . |
| 17 | Polo maintained that these people enjoyed a peaceful existence on the Isle of Andaman , engaging in the trade of nuts , apples and rice with India . |
| 18 | He subsequently described this as merely a " rhetorical technique , " and underlined that these remarks did not represent Yelsin 's views or his own . |
| 19 | Wilberforce doubted that humanitarian zeal had sufficient staying power despite his own and others ' expression of it in 1792 . |
| 20 | They doubted that this act represented any substantial change in policy and did not regard it as sufficient to confirm Pakistani non-alignment in light of the continuation of strong military links between Washington and Islamabad . |
| 21 | Though officials sometimes mentioned that poor peasants owned cattle , ownership was often concentrated and cattle usually had to be hired . |
| 22 | Several people mentioned that fellow students had learned a great deal about many aspects of disability through having them in the peer group . |
| 23 | Willis ( 1983 ) found that black males aged between 16 and 24 were stopped ten times more than average ( although prosecuted in the same proportion as white juveniles ) . |
| 24 | 1987 ) found that black youth received longer sentences and that the black Afro-Caribbean youths given custodial sentences had fewer previous convictions than their white counterparts . |
| 25 | He found that Deep Level had been carried S.E. on the vein for 30 fathoms beyond the old works and was yielding a little ore . |
| 26 | Then they found that neither party stood a chance of winning seats as rivals , but that the regional distribution of their supporters made it possible to share out constituencies without drawing up a common platform . |
| 27 | He found that geophysical literature had a half-life of less than three years ) . |
| 28 | In one study , based on an analysis of five high-school textbooks , Fitzgerald took six sets of three samples from each book , and found that individual samples spanned a range of at least ten grades within each book , and the means of the sets of three had on average a range of three grades within each book . |
| 29 | Kirgan et al found that colonic neoplasms contain both HPV antigen and viral genome . |
| 30 | The most prominent of these were hilltops , and he found that all leys had a hilltop for at least one of their terminal points . |