Example sentences of "[verb] that [art] [adj] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only afterwards transpired that the seedy man was not a reporter but his tutor , with whom he was not otherwise acquainted . ’ |
| 2 | There was no denying that the Soviet Embassy was large , enormous , one might say , making lilliputian a convoy of Russian lorries parked outside from which , mysteriously , soldiers in olive green and red were taking canteens of food . |
| 3 | Bentham was willing , however , on the basis of his version of the command theory of law to take the heroic step of denying that the common law was law . |
| 4 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |
| 5 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 6 | If anything , the surveys suggest that the public mood was at its most Thatcherite and right-wing in the second half of the 1970s . |
| 7 | Recorded reactions suggest that the German public was preoccupied not with Hitler 's remarks on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , but with the implications for war or peace contained in his speech . |
| 8 | The documents suggest that the radioactive waste was dumped during the Second World War or Korean War , from the Army 's Niagara Falls plant or nearby private plants operating under government contract . |
| 9 | This was the same Clark who had stressed that a regular education was necessary for a farrier . |
| 10 | In later years the events of 5 October were to be polished into simplified and incompatible propaganda versions ; it has to be stressed that the whole affair was a series of blunders and the violence resulted from a breakdown of control by the leaders of the march and the controllers of the police , and not from any pre-existing plan . |
| 11 | Glaxo reversed most of yesterday 's gains with a 19p fall to 666p after rumours surfaced that the pharmaceutical giant was considering a big joint-venture with the US group , Warner-Lambert . |
| 12 | Vested interests were reluctant to accept that the typical diet was a cause of coronary heart disease , strokes and cancer , and that people should eat less fat , sugar and salt and more cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 13 | It was a mixed class and the students … regular in attendance and conscientious about the work for the class … . although the amount varied , one student produced some written work every week , two or three others did eight or nine papers … enough was produced for me to know that a real interest was being taken in the class . |
| 14 | He was not to know that a real fear was beginning to overwhelm Sally-Anne . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember once , though , when Sounds were searching for an interview and I happened to know that the whole thing was a set-up . |
| 16 | We were glad to know that the little boy was allowed to ride home with the others . |
| 17 | He listens to me explaining that the front door was unlocked . |
| 18 | Director Sandra Horley had written to Diana 's office explaining that the pioneering sanctuary was under threat through lack of funds . |
| 19 | The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge . |
| 20 | But it has obviously been forgotten that a near-similar system was in place almost exactly a century ago — the submarine cable system , a communicative technique in which the British were supreme . |
| 21 | Indeed , in one of the Criterion Commentaries he maintained that a rural existence was ‘ the best life ’ for most people — a view which ‘ most people ’ have not shared . |
| 22 | Prominent clergymen maintained that no clear choice was offered between " abortion and no abortion " , and emphatically opposed all three proposals , led by the Archbishop of Dublin Desmond Connell who preached a sermon against abortion on Nov. 22 . |
| 23 | Even though the prosecutor is able to rely upon the principles of complicity to establish that the particular defendant was guilty , he still has to show that the defendant was encouraging others to use the conduct in question . |
| 24 | Mr Aikens said that to prove contempt the Attorney-General had to establish that the published information was confidential . |
| 25 | This really meant the abandonment of the original reductive theory , since it could no longer be claimed that a non-observation statement was exactly equivalent in meaning to any collection of observation statements , however complex and conditional that collection might be . |
| 26 | A returned value of zero signifies that the specified file was not found on the specified ( or default ) device . |
| 27 | A returned value of zero signifies that the specified file was not found on the specified ( or default ) device . |
| 28 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 29 | THE MINISTRY of Agriculture has been accused of threatening efforts to save endangered red kites in England by taking three months to discover that a dead bird was illegally poisoned . |
| 30 | If the relationship between two variables entirely disappears when a causally prior variable is brought under control , we say that the original relationship was spurious ; by this we do not mean that the bivariate effect did not really exist , but rather that causal conclusions drawn from it would be incorrect . |