Example sentences of "[verb] that [pos pn] [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stage directions ( " ANDERSON is caught like a rabbit in the headlights " ) suggest that his initial surprise is betrayed to the audience by his physical reaction . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Women who have had children will know that their vaginal muscles are slightly more relaxed after delivery , but they should remember that many men prefer space to move in and that sufferers of premature ejaculation will benefit from the more subtle stimulation of lax vaginal walls . |
| 4 | Brook operates without parental knowledge or consent , determined that parents should never know that their under-age children are sexually active and receiving contraception , if the child requests confidentially . |
| 5 | And did you know that your dear Andrew is a commercial traveller ? |
| 6 | Help us to want your peace more and more , and then may we know that your Holy Spirit is bringing peace which overflows to others . |
| 7 | ‘ I just felt you should know that our spare room is waiting for you and Dimity when you return . ’ |
| 8 | Nor did I know that our intestinal tracts are those of a herbivore , 32 feet long and that if we were meant in enjoy Contre-filet braisé à l'ancienne they would be only a quarter of that length . |
| 9 | Did you know that my full name is St John Eyre Rivers ? ’ |
| 10 | But you must know that my main interest is in getting men to stay on this line . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Coun Joan Wade said : ‘ I am absolutely fuming that our young people are missing out again , ’ referring to the Radio One Roadshow , with Jakki Brambles and special guests , that will be broadcast from Stewart Park , and broadcasts from Middlesbrough Arena . |
| 13 | FOOTBALL : David Platt has pushed transfer talk to the back of his mind and promised that his only concern is helping Bari to avoid the disaster of relegation . |
| 14 | At 29 , the head Raider does not appear to accept that his best years are behind him , bad news perhaps for Jonathan Davies , for whom the press conference provided a first glimpse of a man whose reputation travels before him . |
| 15 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He always maintained that our later success was due to his initial coaching . |
| 19 | They consider the ‘ lives , class affiliations and social circumstances ’ in which Socrates , Plato and Aristotle were writing and ‘ try to establish that their political theories are essentially partisan in origin and ideological in content ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Both sides of the compartment were lined with machinery and metal boxes so crushed and mangled that their original function was incomprehensible . |
| 23 | The NRA argues that women are the first victims of the collapse of the criminal-justice system , and the message seems to be getting through : gun-dealers say that their fastest-growing market is among women . |
| 24 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 25 | He feels that art directors often have such set views about the subjects he photographs that his own creativity is suppressed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The experimenters repeated their tests , and found that their first results were indeed wrong , and Mendeleev was right . |
| 30 | The factory also illegally employed children , normally the sons and daughters of employees who found that their own wages were insufficient . |