Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Napoleon was to find that the best roads in Europe could not create a European market . |
| 2 | General MacArthur was told that the Japanese character for YEN also means ‘ circle ’ . |
| 3 | But , whatever happened to the Germans , McCreery was suggesting that the 200,000 Croats at least should be sent back to Tito . |
| 4 | Mr Healey was arguing that the 1951 Labour government fell because its principal members were tired , having spent five years of the war , and five years afterwards , in government . |
| 5 | On asking the reason for such an assembly , Yakovlev was told that the local priest had refused to marry any couples unless the community attended services . |
| 6 | But Murray was determined that the knightly chivalry should not ride far ahead , as so often happened , and so endanger both . |
| 7 | It was n't until five weeks before Prince William was born that the royal couple moved into Kensington Palace , the home also of Princess Margaret , the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and their immediate neighbours , Prince and Princess Michael of Kent . |
| 8 | The inquest at Shrewsbury was told that the enamelled pendant , which experts say is South German origin , was found by Irwin Haberla of Charlcombe Street , High Tranmere , Wirral , in a field at Haughmond Abbey owned by Mr Charles Teece , who farms close to the abbey ruins . |
| 9 | Charlemagne and the pope had received information from certain persons that Offa was suggesting that the Frankish king should depose Hadrian and replace him with a new pope of Frankish extraction . |
| 10 | When James was told that the French navy had beaten the English he commented patriotically , ‘ It is the first time then , ’ while William , as a face-saver , created Herbert first Earl of Torrington . |
| 11 | The skill of Hollywood was ensuring that the right actor went into the right story . |