Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a visit to Portugal on Jan. 14 Levi held talks with the Foreign Ministers of Angola and Cape Verde , both of whom announced that diplomatic relations with Israel would soon be established . |
| 2 | ‘ I realized that one day before the war . |
| 3 | I tried that 26-letter word on my ‘ spellchecker ’ : it paused for a moment , then put up its hands with ‘ sorry , no suggestions ’ . |
| 4 | One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama . |
| 5 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | If I used that particular eyepiece on my 76-mm refractor , I would still obtain a magnification of around × 600 — but the image would be so faint that it would be completely useless . |
| 7 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 8 | During the World Cup , when an ‘ Anglo-Saxon conspiracy ’ was talked about in France , I noticed that most people in England laughed , dismissing the claim as the words of a bad loser . |
| 9 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 10 | Back at the Neuadd Arms I discovered that pre-race training for most of the other entrants consisted of downing the maximum number of pints of ale in the least possible time . |
| 11 | ’ He gave a sob , ‘ and she went rattling down the stairs to her room the way she always did and then I heard that awful sort of slither and Bunty 's scream … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather ! |
| 13 | And Jaz actually said oh I heard that some bloke from your school is gay is n't he ? |
| 14 | Yes , that 's when I felt that huge surge of relief and happiness . |
| 15 | I knew that three deaths in my immediate vicinity within four years had to look suspicious , and I had already planned my reaction carefully . |
| 16 | I said that three quarters of the total number of international passengers are expected to interchange at King 's Cross with London Underground and other BR services . |
| 17 | When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act . |
| 18 | This helped to deal a crippling blow to the preformationist theory , which argued that all parts of a living organism are already formed in miniature in the seed or egg from which it comes . |
| 19 | He has pointed to the difference between the treatment of offenders in Scotland and England , and said that the Scots do not imprison defaulters following their acceptance of the Scottish Law Commission 's report , which recommended that civil imprisonment for the non-payment of rates and taxes should be abolished . |
| 20 | He waited until their faces reached a satisfactory degree of indignation then , over the next half hour , his low north-country voice spun out a story which revealed that political interests in the United States had channelled money through MacQuillan 's companies to enable him to acquire the Post ( or any other major British newspaper which came on the market and could be turned into a propaganda tool ) . |
| 21 | However a Bratislava solicitor found an article which maintained that all items behind wallpapers are fixtures included in the sale , and not furnishings . |
| 22 | That 's one of the results of a survey carried out by Dr John Stradling , which found that 36,000 people in Britain suffer from sleep apnoea — it prevents air flowing freely to the lungs and results in loud snoring . |
| 23 | He also rejected the radical free market view , which proposed that each part of the electricity industry ( generation , transmission and distribution ) should be broken up into a large number of competing companies . |
| 24 | The rift was now growing between Parliament , which favoured the establishment of Presbyterianism , and the army , which proposed that all forms of Christian worship except Roman Catholicism should be tolerated . |
| 25 | In the final weeks of the Reagan administration , State Department plans for a ‘ surgical strike ’ against General Noriega were scotched by the Pentagon , which estimated that any use of US troops would cause several hundred military and civilian deaths . |
| 26 | Just a month later however , this great work was threatened by an advertisement in the Mercury which stated that another plan of Manchester & Salford was to be on the market and carried out by J. Oldham . |
| 27 | Arzú had already gone on record as saying that Belizean independence would not be recognized , and members of Guatemala 's National Congress claimed that Serrano 's decision flouted Article 173 of the Constitution which stated that territorial decisions regarding Belize " must be subject to the ratification of Congress , following the consultation of the Guatemalan people " . |
| 28 | Council leader , Phyllis Starkey , and Conservative Group Leader , Janet Todd , have written to the Unit General Manager of the John Radcliffe , Tony Stapleton , asking him to withdraw the charge , but hospital officials say they are introducing fees following a survey of people using the hospital , which showed that seventy percent of them were in favour of it . |
| 29 | Our results are in accordance with other studies in rodents , which showed that dietary supplementation with calcium phosphate inhibits lytic activity of faecal water and colonic proliferation . |
| 30 | Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 was discredited by the jury acquittal of the editor of the " Sunday Telegraph " for publishing a confidential army report about the Biafran war which indicated that ministerial statements in Parliament were false . |