Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , let it be supposed that she lacked ordinary competence and capacity . |
| 2 | ‘ My husband has married only once , ’ she told me ‘ but he has forgotten that he has any duties . ’ |
| 3 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 4 | Staff at the Commission have claimed that it has insufficient funds to do this . |
| 5 | For too long , says Ward , we have persisted in the Henry Ford myth that only a genetically privileged few can do joined-up thinking , and the rest are fit for manual tasks so simplified that they produce that brand of mind-numbing tedium which is the most fertile soil for industrial unrest . |
| 6 | It is recommended that you have separate command files for these actions , which you then call as appropriate from the standard VMS command files . |
| 7 | If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so . |
| 8 | I 've checked that they do vegetarian dishes . |
| 9 | The Hindus , he knew , at least refrained from eating pigs ( unlike the Chinese or the disgusting Christians of Byzantium ) , but he had heard that they had other habits the very thought of which made him swoon . |
| 10 | When the public respond to your advertisements or because they have heard that you do personal injury work , it is not enough just to tell them that you do and expect them to come into the office . |
| 11 | ‘ I have heard that you play this game , ’ he said softly . |
| 12 | The observant reader may have noticed that I used this construction myself above on p. 98 ; this was done consciously . |
| 13 | Shortly before he died , Mary had noticed that she had great difficulty swallowing food , had gone to her doctor and he had organized X-rays and tests at the local hospital . |
| 14 | I 've noticed that she has good bladder control . |
| 15 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 16 | Asked about such behaviour she added : ‘ I would be annoyed by it , but I would not feel threatened that he had sexual intercourse with other women . |
| 17 | A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . " |
| 18 | Then it was decided that we needed two terminals . |
| 19 | The sculptor had decided that he wanted this bust to confront the observer . |
| 20 | They 've decided that you need that number of weeks holiday , then that 's what you should be taking . |
| 21 | Rob and Heather had just joined them then , and presumably Luke had felt that he had good reason for not wanting to prolong any conversation about Elise . |
| 22 | Once it has been accepted that they need continuing care their responsibility for maintaining themselves is removed . |
| 23 | But once granted that we have adequate ground for interpreting people 's preferences as those of conscious beings , it is not clear why it should be denied that we have adequate clues as to whether they have pleasant or unpleasant experiences under various circumstances and for some judgements about the degree of the pleasure or pain involved which allow interpersonal comparisons . |
| 24 | All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else . |
| 25 | Though participants have said that they find these quizzes enjoyable , they have not been well supported by comparison with the more usual lectures and no further quiz is planned for the moment , though I shall try to keep a few questions in hand in case a speaker is delayed or fails to arrive for some reason . |
| 26 | In another age and another society it might have been said that they loved each other . |
| 27 | It is said that they place great strains on family life , and people feel they would be unable to cope with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 28 | You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing . |
| 29 | Indeed , it is said that he composed one aria while waiting for the rice to cook . |
| 30 | In fairness to de Valera , it must be said that he opposed any attempt to incorporate the church into the apparatus of the state and in this was , as already noted , going against the form of relationship preferred by the Popes of the day . |