Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The further assumption must be that they gave each other a great deal that was worth having and keeping . |
| 2 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |
| 3 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 4 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 5 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 6 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 7 | Historically the most important aspect of Davenant 's productions is that they removed English masque/opera from the Court to the field of public entertainment . |
| 8 | An interesting feature of the jades is that they included numerous pieces in the form of halberd blades . |
| 9 | The most likely explanation is that she intended some disruption of the race and , having ducked under the rails , found herself the beneficiary of the sheer coincidence of the King 's horse — whose colours she would have recognized — being isolated from the other runners . |
| 10 | ‘ The problem is that I learnt this trick whilst tied up and submerged in a barrel of water . |
| 11 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 12 | Well mum , what it wants is that I got this tooth |
| 13 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 14 | The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil . |
| 15 | what we 'll say to you is that you got that parcel on Tuesday |
| 16 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 17 | The information available to me , provided by Liverpool city council , is that it accepted 397 households as homeless in the second quarter of this year . |
| 18 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 19 | One thing you could say for Daine is that he had good taste in furniture . |
| 20 | So indeed it might have pleased him , for as has subsequently become clear , the best that can be said about the debate , from the Prime Minister 's point of view , is that he had one facet of the truth while General Maurice had another . |
| 21 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 22 | Running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times , during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly , now Virgin 's particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves , only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one . |
| 23 | One of the reasons why the better shipyards and coachbuilders were expensive was that they kept large stocks of valuable timber seasoned and seasoning . |
| 24 | A recurrent criticism of historical approaches in physical geography up to the 1950s was that they had insufficient knowledge of environmental processes to fall back upon which could enhance the understanding of landscape . |
| 25 | The answer to this question was that they had other means of transport . |
| 26 | The main weakness of these republican reforms was that they threatened fundamental change but did n't fully implement it . |
| 27 | Their basic objection was that they found such concepts unhelpful and non-explanatory . |
| 28 | In other words , the World Bank 's figures were bogus , but what mattered was that they provided welcome fodder to those who were already convinced of the value of Ceauşescu 's friendship and wished to promote further deals with his regime . |
| 29 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |
| 30 | One of the more alarming aspects of these Bank Holiday disturbances was that they highlighted fierce traditions of resistance to the police in working-class neighbourhoods , so that not uncommonly policemen attempting to make street arrests would be set upon by large crowds — sometimes numbering two or three hundred people — shouting ‘ Rescue ! |