Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked at each other and laughed as they went for the top A and each found that no noise came out at all . |
| 2 | Another whispered that the policeman was wary , unsure of what to reveal and what to hide . |
| 3 | Some admitted that the creation of a " buffer group " of temporary workers actually enhanced the employment security of their " core " members ; indeed , some " temporary worker agreements " were also " no redundancy agreements " for the bulk for the workforce [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 4 | This revealed that the University Grants Committee , the UFC 's predecessor , had breached Treasury rules in allowing 20 universities to re-employ the lecturers and professors who had benefited from a £130 million early retirement programme . |
| 5 | This revealed that the management were ‘ concerned ’ that the post-60/65 group comprised 18 per cent of the industry compared with a national average of 3.5 per cent , and had offered ‘ solutions ’ . |
| 6 | Some argued that the shock made industry return in the end to competitiveness , but other economists argued that subsequent growth owed more to spending North Sea oil profits on a consumer boom . |
| 7 | Some argued that the case had been brought to an early end as there was little chance of the prosecution being successful , others suggesting that the case had in all but final verdict already been won . |
| 8 | Some argued that the situation demanded a stronger UN presence than the proposed 500-strong unarmed force . |
| 9 | Some argued that the Party should threaten to withdraw from the coalition unless the Tories accepted demands to extend war controls to the nationalization of major industries . |
| 10 | On April 25 this reported that the security forces were to blame for provoking violence from what had been previously a peaceful crowd by making baton charges . |
| 11 | Some believed that the politics of class would bring little advantage to themselves . |
| 12 | This directed that a number of Czechs and dissident Yugoslavs , who had infiltrated an area in Austria east of that covered by the Allied V Corps , should be treated as disarmed enemy troops and evacuated to British concentration camps in Italy . |
| 13 | Some noticed that the cereal packets were wider or longer than soap packets . |
| 14 | Although the case for an annulment was weak in terms of canon law , it was politically expedient for the pope to concede and few believed that the request would be denied . |
| 15 | Initially few believed that the favourite would lose the race , for the scrimmaging had clearly been caused by both parties , and odds of 4–1 were laid against the outsider getting the race . |
| 16 | Some claimed that the plan was underfunded by the multilateral institutions and that its call for debt-reduction agreements would encourage debtors to default on existing commitments , thus impeding the extension of new loans . |
| 17 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the best company seminars I have ever attended , ’ said one , while another commented that the seminar ‘ helped fill a large gap in understanding of LASMO 's business ’ . |
| 19 | A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary . |
| 20 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 21 | This showed that the way he used himself when reciting had a marked effect on his voice and breathing . |
| 22 | This showed that the radiation must come from beyond the Solar System , and even from beyond the galaxy , as otherwise it would vary as the movement of Earth pointed the detector in different directions . |
| 23 | This showed that the bigram matrix is 53% full , whereas less than 5% of the trigram transitions are found in the LOB corpus . |
| 24 | This stated that the government had lost the confidence of the majority in parliament and urged it to resign . |
| 25 | This guaranteed that the water fell to the ground just clear of the walls , so protecting them against damp , discoloration and decay . |
| 26 | But some warned that the impact of higher mortgage rates on wage negotiations risked increased pressure on prices in the months ahead . |
| 27 | This implied that the proportion of the population experiencing poverty at some point in their lives was higher than that suggested by the surveys . |
| 28 | This implied that the female contained the potential for being male . |
| 29 | To keep all his supporters in balance , Lloyd George had to offer something to all of them , but this meant that every coalition scheme was also hotly opposed by a part of the coalition . |
| 30 | This meant that a decompression stop was not required and that these parameters would be stored in the memory , to be compensated for on the next dive . |