Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A solicitor has claimed that three men found not guilty of the manslaughter of twin girls should never have been put on trial . |
| 3 | A solicitor has claimed that three men found not guilty of the manslaughter of twin girls should never have been put on trial . |
| 4 | She has revealed that another priest tried to pressure her into getting Jennifer adopted . |
| 5 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 6 | You would need to ensure that each amp dealt only with its allotted frequency range and so the signal would be split using a crossover , or filter . |
| 7 | The President of Fiji , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , formally promulgated a new Constitution on July 25 , which was designed to ensure that political power remained in the hands of the country 's ethnic Melanesian population . |
| 8 | Research comparing young and older people 's attitudes to sexual morality has found that both groups displayed the same degree of flexibility . |
| 9 | It was established in 1945 as the Industrial , Commercial and Financial Corporation to try to ensure that British industry had access to sufficient funds to feed its long-term growth . |
| 10 | Even those who support the view of a gradual assimilation of legacy and trust in the classical period in order to account for examples of loose language have some difficulty here : for nobody really wants to suppose that this process had got very far in Celsus ' day . |
| 11 | Both Annie and Elizabeth were disturbed to find that each morning brought fresh fox tracks circling the hen huts . |
| 12 | After this type of cathartic outburst , no one seemed to reflect that this offender had a determinate sentence and would be allowed out eventually . |
| 13 | Garway was a staunch Royalist , who nevertheless , like his early associate John Vaughan , seemed to believe that constant vigilance had to be exercised to prevent the loss of England 's liberties or the wasting of its wealth . |
| 14 | It was betrayal , too , when in the 1960s and 1970s many people like me who thought of themselves as ‘ progressive ’ came to believe that mental illness did not exist . |
| 15 | Instead , a new grouping of critics , working under the influence of theorists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault , came to realise that literary texts did not mark out expression which could somehow break free of the culture which produced them . |
| 16 | Very late in the day they had written to say that some arrangement had fallen through and they would be prepared to play us if they could find sufficient members interested in taking part . |
| 17 | If they 'd done so , if they 'd insisted that local authorities did provide the sites they are supposed to provide I believe there would now be sufficient pitches for all travellers and that they would n't be used for illegal parking erm at the level that there is at the moment . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman might like to know that last year saw record levels of exports from this country and that our share of manufactured exports in world trade has been rising since 1984 . |
| 19 | The click that followed showed that this caller had n't felt the need to leave careful details of where she might be contacted . |
| 20 | Further work began to suggest that palaeomagnetic data supported the model of continental drift proposed by Wegener although there were initial uncertainties over the accuracy of the technique . |
| 21 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 22 | As Piaget said himself when reporting his original data , it is just not possible to explain the seven-month-old 's failure to search in terms of memory failure ( that is the baby knows that objects exist unperceived but keeps forgetting that this object went behind there ) because if an organism had a memory this bad it would ipso facto lack object permanence . |
| 23 | That code was to be developed to ensure that public transport met the needs of all passengers , including the disabled and that it worked efficiently in the consumers ' interest . |
| 24 | In this work he needed to know that these numbers factorised uniquely into primes ( 3.7.13 ) just as do the ordinary integers . |
| 25 | I , er I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb , and one would have expected that this paper came from education . |
| 26 | Only someone who was after the maximum deterrent effect would have ensured that each shot hit a rock and caused that terrible screech of ricochet . |
| 27 | ‘ You know , if anyone had asked me — and no one did , mind you — I 'd have said that several people had a reason to kill Newley . |
| 28 | If she had stopped to think , she would have remembered that Brown Owl had told the Pack more than once always to seek the help of a grown-up they knew in any case of emergency . |
| 29 | I think you will have found that this exercise produced more thoughts , images and ideas than you were able to use in what you finally wrote . |
| 30 | Having admitted that substantial support existed , the party spokesman went on to argue that there was no support worth talking about ! |