Example sentences of "[verb] that [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to err in moving the death of Archbishop Lyfing to 1019 ( C and E together speak strongly for 1020 ) , but D adds that his other name was Ælfstan and that he was very firm in counsel whether in matters of church or state . |
| 2 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 3 | He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now . |
| 4 | Lewis was so upset by accusations that he had let his fellow Welshmen win that his immediate reaction was to vow never to play again . |
| 5 | He always maintained that our later success was due to his initial coaching . |
| 6 | The new treatment had meant that this woman was able to establish that her fourth baby was healthy when she was only ten weeks and two days into her pregnancy . |
| 7 | He himself would probably have claimed that his greatest achievement was to be able to predict accurately where and when a particular cuckoo would lay its eggs . |
| 8 | Both sides of the compartment were lined with machinery and metal boxes so crushed and mangled that their original function was incomprehensible . |
| 9 | Taskopruzade writes that his own father was licensed in by Hocazade , Hocazade by Fahreddin Acemi , Fahreddin Acemi by Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi and Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi by Sa 'd al-Din al-Taftazani : as Taskopruzade was himself licensed by his father , this list provides an academic genealogy for him as well . |
| 10 | When we arrived at Papillote , which had advertised itself as being ‘ in the rainforest ’ , we found that its flimsy buildings were half engulfed by the surrounding forest . |
| 11 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 12 | The experimenters repeated their tests , and found that their first results were indeed wrong , and Mendeleev was right . |
| 13 | The factory also illegally employed children , normally the sons and daughters of employees who found that their own wages were insufficient . |
| 14 | Mr Hallam was seen by a surgeon who found that his lower jaw was broken and he had damaged teeth . |
| 15 | He followed the dive-bomber round in a very tight turn and shot it down into the sea , but found that his own aircraft was by then burning fiercely . |
| 16 | And indeed Ungar found that his active component was neither a protein nor a nucleic acid but a peptide — a generic name given to a short sequence of linked amino acids anything up to fifteen or twenty units long and administered by injection , so avoiding the digestive barrier offered by the gut . |
| 17 | When the results became known , we found that our own bets were lost , but the gyp made a handsome winning and Dr Barnardo 's did quite well . |
| 18 | He foresaw ‘ the many hardships , miseries and wants that my poor family was like to meet with … should I be taken from them , especially my poor blind child … . |
| 19 | On the other hand , the Railway Magazine reported that its internal arrangements were extremely convenient . |
| 20 | She had already gathered that her new employer was extremely well connected and , as might be expected from a woman of her standing , required absolute discretion of her staff and the encouragement of her children in a properly modest attitude to the family 's privileged position . |
| 21 | Certainly , many contemporary physicists — most prominent being Fritjof Capra author of the acclaimed ‘ Tao of Physics ’ — have realised that their scientific discoveries were anticipated by ancient mystics and sages . |
| 22 | Thus she was quite close to the bath chair before she realized that its waxen-faced occupant was none other than the old man who , in his eerie fashion , had been so kind in the train . |
| 23 | Maclean realized that their only chance was to bluff their way out of the situation , so they set off for the main gate . |
| 24 | She tasted blood and thought that it was Ryker 's , but then realized that her own face was gashed just below the left eye , she guessed by flying glass . |
| 25 | He realized that his own interests were not favoured at school by boys or masters : |
| 26 | He realized that his last chance was to make his captors believe that Donna knew where the book they sought was hidden , whatever it was . |
| 27 | After dialling 999 , Mrs Whitley checked that her three daughters were safe and rushed outside . |
| 28 | An appeal court later agreed that their first trial was ‘ wrong in law ’ , but upheld the death sentence . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that Aethelburh was accompanied north when she married by Paulinus as her chaplain , and that Paulinus was subsequently consecrated bishop of York by Archbishop Justus in 625 or 626 ( HE 11 , 9 ) , Eadwine did not hasten to embrace the new faith and it needs to be emphasized that his eventual baptism was untypical among the Anglo-Saxons at this time . |
| 30 | However , no-one would listen to us and the Dampness Group realised that their first task was to get evidence to prove their common sense approach . |