Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 2 | Gregory records that he wrote ten books of histories , seven of miracles and one of the Life of the Fathers , together with a commentary on the Psalter , and a work on the offices of the Church , each in one book . |
| 3 | She says that they lived some miles from London , but they could see the red glow in the sky and smell the smoke . ’ |
| 4 | Matthew Paris says that he convicted innumerable monks and laymen , nobles and commoners , on a multitude of indictments for breaches of the Forest law , and , in order to enrich the king , imposed such heavy penalties on the offenders that many were flung into prison , many were despoiled of all their goods and were forced to eke out a bare existence in misery , and many others became exiles and wandering beggars . |
| 5 | Even as a child , Russell describes himself as having found this intellectual , religious background as intolerable , and he says that he spent endless hours meditating on the supposed rational grounds for Christianity . |
| 6 | He says that he expected more mud slinging ; Dowty has been very gentlemanly so far . |
| 7 | ‘ He says that he had some grub here , around half-past four on Wednesday morning . |
| 8 | He says that he suffered terrible injuries . |
| 9 | He says that he hit both men , one ran off , he sat on the other . |
| 10 | Ralph Stanley , a former head of the Urban Mass Transportation agency in Washington , DC , who now works for Bechtel , says that he approached 44 firms on Wall Street in 1989–90 before finding the right combination of people to put together a private toll-road project . |
| 11 | Trodd says that he supported that decision at the time . |
| 12 | His chart of appearances shows that he made full appearances for two seasons after joining us and only a broken collar-bone prevented him from making an even more impressive contribution towards our promotion to Division One in 1969–70 . |
| 13 | The benefits in terms of reliability and speed are dramatic enough — reckons that what took 20 minutes to send down a line can now take a tenth of the time . |
| 14 | Galbraith recalls that he astonished Premier Nehru in the 1950s by telling him that the Punjab was a better place to live and offered a higher general level of income than rural West Virginia , Georgia and Mississippi . |
| 15 | We offer the other hand , and eventually a life line is discovered , although it 's so short it appears that we died several years ago . |
| 16 | On the title-page of Williams Pantycelyn 's elegy to Davies , the poet notes that he died 13 January 1770 , ‘ in the fifty-third year of his age ’ . |
| 17 | Grumbold 's will indicates that he accumulated considerable wealth , acquiring a substantial amount of leasehold property in Cambridge . |
| 18 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
| 19 | That means that means that it prevented high blood pressure as well though . |
| 20 | The events of the last part of his life remain obscure , but his will ( drawn up on 8 March 1482 , proved 1 April 1482 ) implies that he held some post at the court of Edward IV . |
| 21 | ( 3B ) A person shall not be guilty of an offence under subsection ( 3A ) above if he proves that he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 22 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 23 | Sometimes an extremely simple technique is sufficient — for example Coveney ( 1986 ) reports that he obtained enough data to allow him to study quantitatively different ways of expressing future time in the French verb , simply by asking speakers about their plans for the future . |
| 24 | Authors ' reply , — Peter J Lewis believes that we used non-optimal techniques in our study . |
| 25 | In relation to the right hon. Gentleman 's personal position , there is no hon. Member who believes that he intended any malice in what happened on the television show on Friday night . |
| 26 | If the security services were so concerned about this then it clearly suggests that they had good reason to believe that Blake had not been forgotten by the Russians . |
| 27 | This suggests that he had bigger fish to fry — and indeed he had . |