Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] [vb past] [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 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 3 | If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The observant reader may have noticed that I used this construction myself above on p. 98 ; this was done consciously . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | Then it was decided that we needed two terminals . |
| 10 | The sculptor had decided that he wanted this bust to confront the observer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else . |
| 13 | In another age and another society it might have been said that they loved each other . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is said that he composed one aria while waiting for the rice to cook . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He had said that he regarded all-round cancellation as the only fair solution to inter-Allied debts , and this remained his basic position throughout . |
| 18 | Regan and Stewart ( 1982 ) had also earlier argued that they had insufficient legitimacy since members were neither elected or selected on the basis of expert knowledge , prerequisites of authority . |
| 19 | On a recent visit to the Midland Bank in Southampton to ask about opening a current account I was told that I needed some form of indentification . |
| 20 | She had learned the harp because she had once been told that she had beautiful elbows , and harp playing seemed to make better use than most careers of the Lord 's stingy gift . |
| 21 | A child under 10 incurs no criminal liability for its acts ; a child over 9 , but under 14 , incurs no such liability , unless it is shown that it had sufficient capacity to know that its act was wrong . |
| 22 | It may have been noted that I placed sexual offences against children among cases which may have effect . |
| 23 | I mean the one is a classic one when she knew it was Scottish based that she passed any correspondence on |
| 24 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 25 | He ate food that cost little and let it be known that he underwent severe penances and fasting . |
| 26 | The new version of the directive , which had received the assent of the European Parliament ( EP ) on Nov. 22 , and which was due to come into force in January 1993 , allowed providers of financial services the right , in principle , to trade anywhere in the EC provided that they met minimum standards ( the so-called " single passport " concept ) . |
| 27 | ‘ So , Sally-Anne , ’ he said , the three of them on their own , before the tea-tray , Uncle Orrin and Aunt Nella having tactfully found that they had other engagements . |
| 28 | On 15 August 1991 when she visited social services with D. , it was found that he had two scratches on his cheek and a bruise and the mother would not say how those were caused . |
| 29 | He was a born teacher and soon found that he gained great fulfillment by teaching and training others for the profession for which he was so ably fitted . |
| 30 | But it projected enthusiasm , delight and knowledge right through the television screen and it made Peter within a few months well-known to millions of people who had never imagined that they had any interest in natural history . |