Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [that] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lovage is illustrated as a woodcut in a herbal of 1491 , and merits inclusion in Culpeper 's list of useful plants , circa 1645 , where he advised that the bruised leaves , " fried in hog 's lard , laid hot to any blotch or boil , will quickly break it " . |
| 2 | This was explained by Lord Diplock in Pioneer Shipping Ltd v BTP Tioxide Ltd , AC 1982 724 at 736 , where he said that the English system treated the construction of written agreements as questions of law because of the legacy of trial by juries who might not all be literate . |
| 3 | Debate over the security of the Church found a focus in the Convocation controversy , largely triggered by Francis Atterbury 's famous tract , Letter to a Convocation Man of late 1696 , where he argued that the only way to stem the growth of heresy and blasphemy was through Convocation , the Church 's own deliberative and legislative body . |
| 4 | Her hair was much longer and blonder , although I realized that the latter was probably due to the awful quality of the recording . |
| 5 | My other music influence was Western Swing , which is really just white man 's blues , so I decided that the only way to make a living in France was to play that kind of music . |
| 6 | It was by then mid-May , so I calculated that the great day would be 23 August . |
| 7 | The cut where the wing had been severed was quite clean , and the blood had dried up , so she concluded that the poor bird must have flown through some overhead wires in the vicinity during the severe gales we 'd had the night before . |
| 8 | Although they proposed that the coercive power of bishops and ecclesiastics should be abolished , the use of the Book of Common Prayer would be tolerated . |
| 9 | The largest mispricing of 1.3% was barely sufficient to cover transactions costs , and so they concluded that the no-arbitrage condition was not violated . |
| 10 | Fleury was not sure that his own teeth were very sound either so they decided that the best thing to do was to suck the cakes and perhaps dip them in the tea to soften them . |
| 11 | Although it recognised that the eight areas of experience were important , the secondary school curriculum was discussed largely in terms of subjects because that is how secondary education is organised . |
| 12 | Earlier , in June , the Finance Minister , Theodor Stolojan had said that it was not possible suddenly to remove controls on prices without creating an inflationary spiral in the ensuing price-wage explosion , although he agreed that the current pricing mechanism distorted prices and adversely affected supply and demand . |
| 13 | Yeltsin said that he had promised to go with them , although he knew that the Russian Supreme Soviet would not allow him to do so . |
| 14 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 15 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 16 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |
| 17 | If I never believed the dead could hear me , and if I knew that the dead could not speak , I was nonetheless certain that I could re-create a conversation with them . |
| 18 | I 've come a cropper over this before , bemoaning the appalling performance of a 386/40 until I noticed that the tiny turbo light was off and , instead of running at 40MHz , the machine was running at 8MHz ! |
| 19 | Well , Mrs Newton , as she is now , was fairly monosyllabic until I promised that the Daily News would send her a little present . |
| 20 | In that bizarre way which again and again seemed to link imperialism and social reform ( sometimes as allies , sometimes as competitors ) , it seemed to some that Britain would only be able to sustain its Empire if she ensured that the new generation of children , tomorrow 's Imperial Army , was properly nourished . |
| 21 | If you thought that the golden age of rock'n'roll faded with the Fifties , think again ! |
| 22 | Even if we believed that the public interest could perhaps be equated with goals supported by a broad social consensus so that the spectre of management indulging its own personal moral and political preferences under the guise of pursuing socially worthwhile goals no longer haunted us difficulties would still remain . |
| 23 | Why , when we all know that loneliness is a paralysing form of human misery , do we go on as if we thought that the deepest need of rational individuals was to be independent of one another ? |
| 24 | None the less , Milton believed that he had a fair chance , if one believed that the English gentleman normally had some good in him , and that an appeal to decency and tradition could work . |
| 25 | Nicholas and Uvarov flattered themselves , however , if they believed that the western provinces were becoming less intractable than the Congress Kingdom . |
| 26 | Thirdly , a court might decline to allow judicial review if it thought that the alternative dispute-settling body possessed relevant expertise which the court lacked ; or , fourthly , if the case raised issues which could be considered by the alternative body but not by the court on judicial review ; or , fifthly , if the alternative body 's procedure was better suited to resolving the case than judicial review procedure . |
| 27 | If it happened that the particular industry or business was working less efficiently than its foreign competitors , it was simply further relatively weakened . |
| 28 | Or how about if he realised that the real reason I had been looking ‘ better ’ lately had something to do with a £6.99 bargain hair colourant from Clairol ? |
| 29 | ‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony . |
| 30 | I asked Leppard to write them for me , because I felt that the standard cadenzas had become a bit worn out . ’ |