Example sentences of "that they [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well over one third of those questioned in our survey said that they waited for the sales to make major purchases . |
| 2 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 3 | With regard to indirect discrimination , the EOC conducted a postal survey of all the applicants to the Society in one year to establish whether or not each candidate could have complied with the mobility requirement at the time that they applied for the job . |
| 4 | This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 . |
| 5 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |