Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hardly have forgotten that five years earlier the authorities had required him to register under the Aliens Restriction Order . |
| 2 | The president and the parliament are struggling for power , but both have said that individual savers will be compensated for the ravages of inflation . |
| 3 | The CFTC might well have felt that desperate moves were necessary to remind those in authority that it still exists . |
| 4 | Opinion in Texas prison circles , with hindsight , seems to be that TDC should simply have admitted that various provisions for prisoners were unsatisfactory and inadequate . |
| 5 | In 1972 a research paper by American scientists showed that the stable isotope ratios for oxygen and carbon in white marble varied from quarry to quarry , and more extensive research since then has confirmed that such measurements provide a ‘ signature ’ for the marble quarries of Italy , Greece and Turkey , which were the main sources of Classical marble . |
| 6 | When Cruz , a substitute opponent , beat him in the Nevada desert , the Ulsterman could never have guessed that six years later , from a Belfast court room , he would receive a bigger blow than the Texan ever dealt him . |
| 7 | They would certainly have thought that such events were unlikely to happen for millennia to come — if at all . |