Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other staff said she seemed annoyed to discover that Mrs Fribbins had wet the bed . |
| 2 | Although it became heretical to deny that God could have created other worlds , it was as dangerous to say that He had . |
| 3 | But writing the first edition in the midst of the Common Market discussions of 1972 , it seemed appropriate to remark that Britain decided some 200 million years ago to remain with Europe rather than depart with North America . |
| 4 | Having in Scotland lost the vote for the ordination of women to the priesthood , it seemed profitable to argue that women should be ordained to the diaconate ( that is to say be made deacons , not simply deaconesses ) . |
| 5 | It was against this background , namely that it seemed preposterous to suppose that a.b could ever be other than equal to b.a in any consistent algebraic setting , that Hamilton looked for more than 10 years for an extension of complex numbers suitable for application to the physics of 3-dimensional space . |