Example sentences of "[vb past] that [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly , it probably helped that in real life , she came a cropper over Keifer . |
| 2 | She doubted that in ordinary circumstances Herbert Fraser and Polly Beard got on well together . |
| 3 | Several mentioned that in recent years the rate of voluntary leaving had decreased so that they were no longer able to rely upon increasing or slowing down the rate of recruitment to maintain their labour forces at the desired level . |
| 4 | There was undoubtedly a big market , as many car firms found that without small robots they could not complete the automation of their paint spraying lines . |
| 5 | Bailey and Harrison found that for certain types of passage cloze scores were potentially unreliable indicators of comprehension . |
| 6 | A mid-1980s ' survey of 650 firms in 130 US industries found that for new processes , lead time and learning curve advantages were rated as being the most important methods of protecting new innovations , while secrecy and marketing-related advantages were generally regarded as being more important than patents . |
| 7 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 8 | Finch , in a study of preschool playgroups , found that for working class women self help was illusory , because taking turns in looking after other people 's children did not fit in with their life styles or with their aspirations . |
| 9 | Margaret Spear , in a different study from the one reported in this volume , found that for identical work boys were marked higher than girls for supposed understanding of principles , aptitude for science and O level suitability ( Spear , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | A MORI poll conducted in 1981 found that among skilled workers in the North of England , Labour had a 32% lead over the Conservatives . |
| 11 | A MORI poll ( April 1989 ) for a BBC programme , Thatcher 's Children , found that among young voters ( 15 — 28 ) aspirations were distinctly bourgeois . |
| 12 | Dalton found that in industrial plants conflict between line managers and staff specialists arose from the ambition and individualistic behaviour of staff officers , their efforts to justify their existence and gain acceptance of their contribution to the work of the organization , and their dependence on approval by line managers for access to higher staff positions . |
| 13 | In this study , we found that in obese patients psyllium moderately but significantly delays gastric emptying of a solid meal . |
| 14 | Finlayson and Weir ( 9 ) , ( 10 ) found that in comprehensive education the academically bright pupil was constrained to conform to the anti-intellectual norm in the hostel community , a very different position from that obtaining in the days of Dr. Farquhar Macintosh , now rector of Royal High School , Edinburgh who remembers his hostel days on the mainland from a Hebridean background where the hostels housed an academic elite of Certificate pupils . |
| 15 | As Appendix II , and indeed the main survey results , make clear , it is not necessarily low income which makes credit at the same time both an obvious refuge and an unduly heavy burden — though in the main survey we found that in general people on low incomes were more likely to say that they were worried about money than people on high incomes . |
| 16 | For example , Herriot ( 1969 ) found that in passive sentences like The sister was hated by the brother it took longer to name the actor and acted-upon than in corresponding active sentences ( The brother hated the sister ) . |
| 17 | Moreover , Adamson et al found that in epithelial-cell-fibroblast cocultures , direct contact between these cells greatly increased the rate of fibroblast growth . |
| 18 | The WHO ( 1986 ) reported that in industrialised countries , accident injuries rank fifth among the leading causes of death in children and young people . |
| 19 | Reports and assumptions such as this continued , off and on , throughout the year and reached a climax in December 1951 in a memorandum from the acting Assistant Secretary of State ( Allison ) to Acheson which reported that from various sources and for various reasons , not least the fact that some 200,000 Chinese communist troops in Kwangsi Province were prepared to move on Indo-China as ‘ volunteers ’ , a large-scale attack against French Union and Vietnamese forces in Tonkin must be expected on or about 28 December . |
| 20 | I realized that in recent weeks Hyde had become bigger and stronger , both in body and character . |
| 21 | In 1909 they took the par as 84 , and agreed that in mixed foursomes , when short of a male partner , ladies could ‘ play with other ladies ! ’ |
| 22 | In a dramatic personal speech , Mr Lamont disclosed that on Black Wednesday the Prime Minister wrote to him saying he was not resigning ‘ and I should not do so either ’ . |
| 23 | He realised that without western investment there was little chance of turning the economy around . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 25 | At the same time , the Chancellor announced that with immediate effect the threshold for the 1 per cent stamp duty charged on houses would be lifted from £30,000 to £60,000 , which will cut the cost of buying a £60,000 home by £600 . |
| 26 | On July 26 Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that over previous weeks 73 Islamic " agitators " had been arrested in Dayrut . |
| 27 | In addition to the planned introduction of the right to obtain a passport , Myftiu announced that in future defection would be considered as trespass on the country 's borders and not as " betrayal of the homeland " , which had carried the death penalty . |
| 28 | The idea arose that in healthy subjects there is a ‘ critical period ’ early in the morning ( but after we have woken up ) when light is ‘ required ’ by the body . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that small companies promise substantially faster growth , the survey revealed that for large companies the median price to earnings ratio was a heady 20.6 , compared with 15.4 for smaller firms . |
| 30 | This revealed that in normal embryos r5 motor neurons are in two subsets : a medial group of 10–20 neurons whose axons project anteriorly along the side of the floor plate , and a larger lateral group whose axons extend laterally before turning anteriorly into r4 ( Fig. 2 c , f ) . |