Example sentences of "this [vb past] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This showed that the way he used himself when reciting had a marked effect on his voice and breathing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This showed that the bigram matrix is 53% full , whereas less than 5% of the trigram transitions are found in the LOB corpus . |
| 10 | This stated that the government had lost the confidence of the majority in parliament and urged it to resign . |
| 11 | This guaranteed that the water fell to the ground just clear of the walls , so protecting them against damp , discoloration and decay . |
| 12 | This implied that the proportion of the population experiencing poverty at some point in their lives was higher than that suggested by the surveys . |
| 13 | This implied that the female contained the potential for being male . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In practical terms this meant that a court should not lightly disregard foreign blocking statutes or ‘ defensive laws ’ ; that perceived national interests should be carefully defined and weighed , so that some delay might well be accepted in the interest of promoting respect for the sovereign equality of States under international law ; and that evidence of the willingness of the foreign state to assist United States courts ( e.g. by a civil law country enacting legislation to enable cross-examination to take place ) should be taken into account . |
| 17 | In practice , this meant that a polytechnic or college of higher education could obtain a 100 per cent grant for that proportion of the establishment 's work which fell within the definition of ‘ poolable advanced further education ’ as agreed by local authorities . |
| 18 | This meant that a trust investing solely in , say , gilts or bonds could qualify for the £1,500 limit , which was not the original intention . |
| 19 | This meant that a man 's estate was increasingly likely to be divided between his wife ( if she survived him ) and his children , although not necessarily in equal measure . |
| 20 | Prior to that time retirement ages for men and women were the same , and this meant that a man retiring at 65 often had to support himself and his wife on a single-rate pension , because on average women were younger than their husbands . |
| 21 | This meant that a lot of the interchange would be verbal with no record or a remembered , inaccurate record . |
| 22 | This meant that a condition for the exercise of the power was that the land was of the appropriate type . |
| 23 | This meant that the subject was developing in a specific type of state with a specific view of the main features of international society . |
| 24 | What was needed was a dispassionate focus on the root of the problem , and this meant that the subject had to lose its normative character . |
| 25 | This meant that the subject was Making Notes ; that it was the third draft ( for other drafts were lying about ) ; and that it was the tenth manuscript page of that draft . |
| 26 | At a regional level , this meant that the North West and West Midlands were particularly badly affected . |
| 27 | This meant that the scope for comparing establishment behaviour over time , which would provide some indication of whether there has been any increase in the use of temporary workers [ see Chapter 7 ] , was rather limited . |
| 28 | This meant that the couple were virtually never alone . |
| 29 | This meant that the stuff from the mine had to be reduced by stages to a coarse sand which was then processed to extract the copper ( and other minerals ) . |
| 30 | This meant that the smog problem could only be solved in the short term if the Los Angeles County restricted motor vehicle use . |