Example sentences of "[prep] they that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perfectly clear to all four of them that the forensic skills , the intellectual abilities , the sheer weight of grey cellular matter , the brutalizing experience of countless similar quests , possessed by the real experts was infinitely greater than that of the mere professionals . |
| 2 | It was upon them that the legal profession focussed in the early 1970s in an attempt to improve its tarnished public image . |
| 3 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |
| 4 | I explain to them that the local garage which supplied us with petrol has closed and we therefore no longer have an account . |
| 5 | It seemed incongruous to them that the sweet teenager they knew was not only surviving life in the toughest of all trades . |
| 6 | ‘ It did not occur to them that the wrong drug had been introduced not by accident but deliberately . |