Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enough for me to know that this house was not a good place to be when he was alive , not good for either of you . |
| 2 | Afterwards I realised that this idea was wrong . |
| 3 | ‘ Once I realised that this novel was going to be a kind of mammoth , I decided to forgo writing the series . |
| 4 | True , four track is a mite limiting , but I imagine that live performance was again uppermost in Roland 's mind here . |
| 5 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 6 | I observed that this policy was repeated last Sunday and No 75069 was rostered to haul four coaches from Aberystwyth to Machynlleth , with a scheduled departure time of 18.10 . |
| 7 | I indicated that legal action was , in my view , inappropriate in respect of what was a rather feeble attempt at satire , and the importance of the programme would be enhanced to an absurd extent if anyone depicted in it took it seriously , but none of us liked being ridiculed . |
| 8 | I understand that high birth was all important in your circles . " |
| 9 | I believe that local democracy was not very responsibly exercised by some people in the years that have just gone by . ’ |
| 10 | I feel that this event was another small step towards a recognition of the very important part the car park plays in our culture . |
| 11 | I felt that this conversation was adding little to my , or my listeners ' , knowledge of how to buy a coffin , so I thanked him kindly for his time and said goodbye . |
| 12 | " Although sponsored club competitions are prolific in the U.K. , I felt that this opportunity was quite different , offering club golfers the chance to participate in a national tournament during the winter , " said Ivan Straker , Chairman of Seagram Distillers . |
| 13 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 14 | ‘ I gather that some ill-feeling was shown towards the speaker , ’ Bragg said . |
| 15 | Taking the view as I do that this breach was incapable of remedy , it was unnecessary to require in the notice that the defendant should remedy the breach . |
| 16 | I think that that view was held widely across Europe , and I was delighted that our European partners were content with the proposals that we advanced . |
| 17 | As we stood to say the apostle 's creed during the communion service yesterday a statement of faith which we share with every part of the Christian church throughout the world I concluded that this statement was unnecessary . |
| 18 | She opened the back of the book , and found a heading on the fold-in part of the jacket which announced that this section was ‘ About the Author ’ . |
| 19 | This is simply the modern individual equivalent of the psychoanalytic principle which holds that primal parricide was a consequence of a desire for incest with the mother . |
| 20 | ‘ Khan , there are records which show that this world was resettled during the Second Empire , over five thousand years ago . |
| 21 | The politicians based their stance on the report of the conference 's scientific sessions , which warned that immediate action was required to limit the warming . |
| 22 | Indeed , the size of the increases , together with the publication of the Kinsey Report in 1948 ( which suggested that homosexual behaviour was more widespread than had been commonly thought ) and the media-highlighted prosecution of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu on an indecency charge in 1954 , culminated in what may reasonably be described as a ‘ moral panic ’ over homosexuality . |
| 23 | At the conclusion of the second world climate conference , held in Geneva on Nov. 5-7 , the 137 participating governments signed an agreement which recognized that global warming was a reality and undertook to take steps to limit it . |
| 24 | She was aware of a strange electrical current humming in the air between herself and Matthew Blake , and she realised that that current was causing curiosity . |
| 25 | In what ways do you think that daily life was more pleasant in the time before this migration to the towns than it was afterwards ? |
| 26 | The chairman who ventured that mild criticism was well-placed to do so . |
| 27 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 28 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 29 | The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter . |
| 30 | In passing she noted that Open Desktop was n't original to SCO . |