Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pers pn] be [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although C. has no recollection of the fact , Ward J. found that he was present at some time when Miss T. was expressing her wish not to have a blood transfusion . |
| 2 | Where once she had been desperate not to miss Johnny , now it seemed that she was fearful at the thought of meeting him . |
| 3 | In her resignation letter Gandhi claimed that she was unhappy at the " strange and unilateral decisions " taken by Singh and criticized him for his policies regarding Kashmir and Punjab and for his implementation of the Mandal Commission report [ see below ] . |
| 4 | YOUNG pretenders Curtis Robb and David Grindley last night discovered that it 's tough at the very top . |
| 5 | She told me she made a point of taking a walk each day to get out of the way of all the old people , but I was reassured when I saw that she was well-known at the café and seemed to have several friends among its patrons . |
| 6 | Ruth never felt that she was good at it , but it made a change , and she enjoyed listening to her mistress 's accounts of her days . |
| 7 | Oil company officials said that they were excited at the new possibilities which opens up territory equivalent in size to the oil-producing state of Texas . |
| 8 | Yeah , and we explained and said that I was pregnant at the time and we said about the policeman , oh no trouble ! |
| 9 | On entering the house , the defendant said that he was unhappy at Paulette 's having married Zaidie and that he was going to obtain a copy of the marriage certificate and would shoot Paulette if she had married while she was still talking to the defendant ( the date of the marriage was actually 10 December 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Darlington borough councillor Alan Gibson said that he was shocked at the scale of the resurfacing work . |
| 11 | He said that he was surprised at the contradictory answers which the House had received from the shadow Chancellor and the Leader of the Opposition on this complex issue . |
| 12 | The annual conference of Sinn Féin , the political wing of the Irish republican movement , was held in Dublin on Feb. 3-4 , 1990 , during which Gerry Adams , the party president , said that he was ready at any time to discuss the conditions within which peace and justice could be created . |