Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one major respect it is different , though : her two pauses of 0.6 seconds ( lines 11 and 13 ) are interpreted as signals that other speakers may now have the floor . |
| 2 | In 1829 Elie de Beaumont put forward the idea that the Earth is contracting and argued that compressional stresses set up in the crust as a result of the cooling of the Earth 's interior would give rise to faulting , folding and thickening of the crust , and eventually to the formation of mountain ranges . |
| 3 | On 9 February 1986 Premier Moussavi was reported as saying that Saudi and Kuwaiti exports were the main factors in the collapse of prices . |
| 4 | Fighting erupted in Beirut yesterday shortly after President Elias Hrawi was quoted as saying that Syrian troops would leave parts of Lebanon as soon as he had overcome the resistance of troops of General Michel Aoun in the Christian enclave . |
| 5 | Earlier Wittgenstein was quoted as saying that psychological verbs are ‘ characterized by the fact that the third person of the present is to be verified by observation , the first person not . ’ |