Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 8 March there were 27 dead and 227 wounded in the rioting ; later it was disclosed that 2000 persons had been detained ‘ behind barbed wire ’ . |
| 2 | In practice , few juries have ever supposed that ordinary people turn away so consistently from the sort of pornography brought before British courts in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 3 | It can not be supposed that this regulation meant that , in each case , the minister in person should direct his mind to the matter . |
| 4 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 5 | However , studies by Gill Aslett and Joan Blyth and several more recent investigations have stressed that young children need to be trained to " read " pictures . |
| 6 | It must be stressed that this equilibrium involves no excess demand or supply of any investment asset . |
| 7 | Crude analysis — The crude percentage of patients whose ulcers had relapsed was also calculated to allow a comparison with some previously published trials , although it sould be stressed that this method underestimates the true relapse time . |
| 8 | However , it should be stressed that this implementation requires the assumption that the distribution of returns in the past is stable and an accurate proxy for future returns . |
| 9 | Senior ministers last night emphasised that the British position had remained unchanged since the Madrid summit , where they had stressed that adequate preparation had to be made long before stages II and III of the Delors plan could be settled . |
| 10 | Senior ministers last night emphasised that the British position had remained unchanged since the Madrid summit , where they had stressed that adequate preparation had to be made long before stages II and III of the Delors plan could be settled . |
| 11 | It must be stressed that these examples refer in some cases to complete pieces of music , in others to themes which form only part of a longer movement . |
| 12 | A great deal of the argument against central controls has stressed that local government has shown a greater ability to reduce spending than the departments of central government and even the Audit Commission — in the early 1980s — has acknowledged that the operation of central rules may actually have encouraged increased levels of spending and a reduction in the accuracy of information feeding into the centre ( Audit Commission , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | Prediction is inaccurate , and one is reminded that economic recovery has been forecast for years by a party in government that is supposed to have great financial expertise . |
| 14 | In the light of certain of the clinical evidence it might be expected that one factor influencing the direction or degree of perceptual asymmetry obtained in laboratory experiments among left handers would be their degree of sinistrality . |
| 15 | It is not to be expected that each sentence written will obey grammar rules . |
| 16 | It can be expected that some rabbits confined in short burrows will begin to bolt quite quickly , at times almost instantly . |
| 17 | I , er I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb , and one would have expected that this paper came from education . |
| 18 | I was also charmed that one lady called me Rosemary Clooney ! |
| 19 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 20 | It should not be forgotten that any crops sold off the land are ‘ extractive ’ and tend to lower fertility . |
| 21 | It must not be forgotten that independent parts given to the feebler instruments are not actually heard in the tutti , but may play havoc with the clarity of design which should be the orchestrator 's first aim . |
| 22 | For example in aerospace it is claimed that European collaboration allows advanced research to be undertaken which would be too expensive on a national basis . |
| 23 | A witness at the trial of two men accused of the murder of a police informer has claimed that one defendent drove the victim to a meeting with the other , who them killed him . |
| 24 | The complete results were not released , nor were the names of defeated candidates ; it was officially claimed that 503 candidates took part . |
| 25 | Other Hawaiians have claimed that geothermal exploitation disrupts their worship of the goddess , Pele . |
| 26 | The MRD later claimed that small crowds had assembled in six places without confronting the police and that 1,500 had been detained . |
| 27 | It is claimed that such systems satisfy heating requirements at a reasonable cost . |
| 28 | Pecquet even claimed that good diplomats needed to be prepared from childhood for the work . |
| 29 | It has been claimed that company-level bargaining has advantages over , and is presumptively more efficient than , industry-wide bargaining in that wages can be related directly to the firm 's performance , profitability and capacity to pay ( Ulman , 1974a ) . |
| 30 | The idea that people can be sensitive to natural gas is a contentious one , but it is claimed that some people have made dramatic recoveries after removing the gas supply from their house . |