Example sentences of "[vb past] that [noun] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 18 1988 , Computergram Number 931 reported that IBM was seeking retroactive royalties from any company that had cloned the Personal Computer * * * the Open Software Foundation was revealed with seven sponsors * * * |
| 2 | She drained the can , crushed it in her hand and was about to throw it away when she realized that Molassi was standing right next to her . |
| 3 | Was he human , semi-human , immaculately conceived or was he just a human being who recognised that evil was becoming widespread in the world , and that mankind was in danger of becoming dominated by those who had much to lose if it were suppressed ? |
| 4 | At 1334 hours , the GCA final controller noted that aircraft was going low in the glide path at 7 miles . |
| 5 | He noticed that Jim was wearing some very expensive-looking clothes , and feared he might be spending all Bella 's earnings on his own back . |
| 6 | When the band sensed that Harvey was growing tired they moved him towards a finale and spread a musical carpet and drew a musical curtain and the trumpet milked the applause . |
| 7 | At Rass he heard that Ibrahim was evacuating all but the Hijaz and had withdrawn to Medina . |
| 8 | Things would n't have been so bleak , perhaps , if the dramatic rise in population had been brought about by healthier times and a consequent increase in life expectancy ; in the event , many scholars would cite a different cause or causes for it — like the fact that the decline of the apprenticeship system meant that couples were marrying younger , and so increasing the number of child-bearing years per family . |
| 9 | He felt that Cromwell was encouraging these changes . |
| 10 | The head explained that he and the class teacher felt that Balbinder was making little progress and they were worried about his lack of concentration and poor language . |
| 11 | They thought that Goibniu was looking happy ( although it was always difficult to tell with giants ) and thought , was n't it a fine old thing to see how well the designs were being received and was n't it great , altogether , to see how well received the Oakapple 's sketches were , because had n't he been the guiding light behind most of the work ? |
| 12 | Carl from upstairs got arrested too , and he said that Ibrahim was screaming all night in the room next to him in the prison , and when they opened the door in the morning , he 'd scratched all the skin off of his face . |
| 13 | said that people are losing all interest in the election and they 've got no faith in any of parties they all seemed to much alike and all fund ranges |
| 14 | At the beginning of March , a social services minister said that hospitals were reporting fewer car accident victims as a result of the law . |
| 15 | He said that David was getting ready to tour America , but he did n't want normal rock and roll people — he wanted weird , crazy people to be his staff and he asked whether we 'd do it . |
| 16 | However , Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen , present as a guest , denied that China was seeking regional hegemony and offered to shelve the sovereignty issue and proceed with the " joint development " of the Spratlys . |
| 17 | In 1988 the Secretary of State for the Environment suggested that people were becoming homeless simply to jump the housing waiting list queue . |