Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 2 | They tended to stress that these women were the hapless , passive victims of debauched aristocrats and manipulative medics , who were eager to be reformed given the necessary moral intervention from without . |
| 3 | He began to notice that those juveniles who were on his line of flight deferred to him , preferring to back off rather than confront him . |
| 4 | In this work he needed to know that these numbers factorised uniquely into primes ( 3.7.13 ) just as do the ordinary integers . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , Connie , ’ said Brian , as one who expected as much : he wanted to say that these characters of whom his stepdaughter spoke contributed nothing valuable to society , but was unprepared to defend the ethics and value of advertising in a market economy to a girl who was incapable of grasping the subtleties of an argument . |