Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This allowed an individual citizen to request that case be referred to the Constitutional Council if he or she felt that fundamental rights were being undermined . |
| 3 | Watching actors in animal costume making their sophisticated jokes was like proof of anthropologists ' statements , as typified by Frazer in that same conclusion to The Dying God , where he stated that serious rites had become idle amusement , mummeries , and childish games . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's nice to be able to say that I saw that big right coming but Ruddock did n't , in fact I do n't think he saw anything that came his way . |
| 5 | Not that I imagined that any bolt could keep out that terrible avenging creature ! |
| 6 | I confess that I thought that that case had arisen a little before that speech . |
| 7 | ‘ Once I realised that this novel was going to be a kind of mammoth , I decided to forgo writing the series . |
| 8 | Julia said drily that she thought that free Capitalism with an adequate system of social welfare for all those who could not make their own success in it was probably the fairest workable system , and then laughed as she saw David 's expression . |
| 9 | Now that 's a bit of a surprise to you in the sense that you believed that ten percent of the population owned eighty percent of the land and therefore this , this kind of erm a a attack on , on the rich was happening through the May the fourth directive , that would 've produced enough to bring everybody up to a reasonable middle peasant status . |
| 10 | We , we , I thought were all saying that we felt that these reductions were actually unacceptable , or totally un almost unacceptable . |
| 11 | ‘ I assume that we thought that these dependants would wish to accompany their soldiers and that the soldiers would wish to have them with them . |
| 12 | Anything that was n't like that , though , Dave would handle all the rhythms and I 'm really glad that we did that this time because it allowed us each to focus in on what we were doing — me on my solos and Dave on the rhythms . |
| 13 | It seems likely that the files of cases which had ‘ no further action ’ or were cautioned would be returned to the police quickly , so we inferred that those cases not followed-up had been tried in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 14 | What is certain is that they discovered that electrical stimulation of some parts of the cortex caused movements in the limbs on the opposite side of the body from the part of the brain that had been stimulated . |
| 15 | The they gave good employment , stability of employment , good personal pension schemes , good career progression schemes , they put a lot of money in research and development , security of supply was the key issue for the customer , they put a lot of money into conservation , energy development , and of course , one other thing that they did that this government does n't like , they actually recognize trade unions , and had trade unions represent the members who work there . |
| 16 | ‘ He also said the factory included many novel and revolutionary schemes not operational in any other part of the world , although he stressed that all equipment had been tried out elsewhere ’ . |
| 17 | Professor Botha also said neither woman had been raped , although he added that further tests are to be conducted on the bodies . |
| 18 | April : An extension of links with South Africa was announced by Ratsiraka , including a direct air service and expanded economic and commercial relations , although he emphasized that diplomatic recognition would not take place until South Africa had abolished apartheid . |
| 19 | Responding to the absence of clearer guidelines on exchange rates , Bérégovoy told reporters that it indicated that current parities suited all G-7 partners . |
| 20 | The importance of the decision lies in the fact that it indicated that natural justice applied to all decisions affecting a person 's rights irrespective of the form of the decision-making process or the nature of the body entrusted with the decision . |
| 21 | To my great surprise and that of everyone else , I found that it meant that black holes are not completely black . |
| 22 | Some genial foreign observers claimed that it illustrated that gloomy predictions about Britain 's demise , like that of Mark Twain , were much exaggerated . |
| 23 | Then , in the early part of this century , the quantum theory appeared ; its details need not concern us except for the fact that it implied that all forms of matter and energy came in tiny discrete packages called quanta ( by ‘ discrete ’ is meant that you can not have half a quantum ) . |
| 24 | As in the past , he was anxious to know what my new job was like , and it was reassuring for me to learn that he thought that such work was very much needed . |
| 25 | At a press conference on May 2 President Vaclav Havel said that he thought that racist attacks by groups of skinheads on Romanies , Vietnamese guest workers and other members of racial minorities were being provoked by supporters or agents of the former communist regime , who were also engaging in disinformation about the situation in the country . |
| 26 | You will remember that he thought that contextual features might be considered in the way that general phonetic features are considered : sometimes , but not always relevant , and specifiable to variable degrees of delicacy for different purposes ( 2.2 . |
| 27 | The Washington Post of June 24 quoted the co-chair of the observer delegation , Donald Payne , a member of the US House of Representatives , as saying that the elections could not be described as " completely free and fair " , and that he hoped that new elections might be held in disputed areas . |
| 28 | Following the talks , Bush defended Japan 's role in the Gulf war and said that he hoped that most Americans understood the constitutional constraints on Japanese military operations . |
| 29 | The circumstances in which Anselm used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae in these nine letters from 1101 to 1106 show that he knew that this phrase embodied the papal policy with which Hugh of Lyons had probably made him familiar , and which he was in duty bound to carry out in the matter of homage and investiture . |
| 30 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |