Example sentences of "that [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is my understanding that Cardinal Daly has outrightly condemned the events of last Saturday . |
| 2 | He was the sort of son that Sophie Grenfell had always wanted , the pity of it all , from his mother 's point of view , was that he was the younger son . |
| 3 | There was an even stronger rumour that Herr Hitler had finally become unhinged , had gone bleating , weeping mad and would end his days — soon — dribbling and counting posies . |
| 4 | Vansittart — not noted for his pacifism told Carrington over lunch with Desmond Morton that Herr Hitler had undoubtedly lost his nerve . |
| 5 | But when all is said and done , the name of the novel game is entertainment , and in that Richard Allen has never failed to deliver . |
| 6 | It has already been indicated that Nathalie Sarraute has always remained committed to the depiction of psychological states , despite the apparently ‘ narratorless ’ trend of her fiction since Le Planétarium . |
| 7 | As soon as it became clear that Miss Trunchbull had completely disappeared from the scene , the excellent Mr Trilby was appointed Head Teacher in her place . |
| 8 | On this thought , Catherine put her head in , politely excusing herself to Bruce Davidson , and said that Miss Huntley had finally got here . |
| 9 | It dawned on Wycliffe that the room was smelling strongly of whisky , and that Miss Bond had probably hidden bottle and glasses while he was being received on the landing . |
| 10 | When he rang Joanne to check Nigel 's movements in the week before Steen 's death , a strange female voice answered and informed him that Miss Menzies had already gone up to Scotland for her Christmas holidays . |
| 11 | The Circular 's report of the NAPSS meeting in Edinburgh referred to the confusion over the " class " of the women to be introduced , noting that Miss Parkes had actually said " lower-class " . |
| 12 | That impatient man did not have so long to wait as he had feared , for the very next evening a young townsman arrived at Hoddom from Annan , ten miles distant , with the news that Edward Balliol had indeed returned to his army . |
| 13 | Western intelligence experts , who believed that North Korea had already built or was in the process of constructing a reprocessing facility capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium , were taken by surprise since satellite photographs had previously shown only two reactors . |
| 14 | It was reported in yesterday 's press , however , that North Korea has now agreed to the principle of the nuclear-free Korean peninsula , although it has yet to confirm that it will open up its nuclear installations at Yongbyon and any underground sites to inspection . |
| 15 | In fact , he would have elbowed the ‘ Jottings ’ long ago had not the Chairman of his Board reminded him that Nye Bevan had once found them ‘ bloody civilized ’ . |
| 16 | It was reported on Oct. 29 that Ariane 44-L had successfully launched into orbit the Intelsat VI communications satellite for the 110-member International Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( INTELSAT ) . |
| 17 | Does this mean that the message has n't got across , that Jane Austen has somehow failed to communicate ? |
| 18 | Another pressing reason for leaving was that Jeanne Hébuterne had just discovered that she was pregnant and she had confessed as much to her mother . |
| 19 | But the garrison , distressed by the revelation that Dr McNab had actually written a description in his diary of his own wife 's death by cholera , feared that in the case of Dr McNab even the caricature of a Scot might be mild in comparison with the truth ; they could think of few less tantalizing prospects than that their deaths should become medical statistics . |
| 20 | Her sturdy common sense , the downright attitude to life which never ceased to surprise him , the constant loving references to a papa and a mama who sounded remarkably practical themselves , even if they had spoiled their beautiful daughter , informed him that she came from a background very unlike any that Dr Neil had ever encountered . |
| 21 | A High Court jury ruled in his favour after hearing how Dr Houston , 47 , made claims in front of staff and patients that Dr Smith had sexually harassed her . |
| 22 | Back in Ockleton 's rooms at Breakspear , seated by a roaring fire and sipping finer port than he could ever recall tasting , he had asked Ockleton to explain his reaction earlier to Harry 's revelation that Alan Dysart had once worked for him in Swindon . |
| 23 | ‘ When I told you earlier that Alan Dysart had once worked for me , you seemed … surprised . |
| 24 | The use of words also helps to bring across the message of the poem with words such as ‘ futility ’ and ‘ fatuous ’ giving the distinct impression that Wilfred Owen has almost given up everything that he once believed in because he feels that everyone is going to kill each other anyway . |
| 25 | Please note that Helen Fitzpatrick has now left SERC and until a new committee secretary is appointed the contact person for Subcommittee B at SERC will be Mrs Pru Backway . |
| 26 | It is indeed actually the paradox that Fred Hoyle has just rediscovered erm which is for those of us who have been teaching it to our undergraduates for thirty years . |
| 27 | ‘ Nevertheless , I have come to the conclusion , after much hesitation , that Mr. O'Brien did falsely represent to her that the charge was limited to secure £60,000 and that it would be released in a short time , when the £60,000 had been raised by remortgage . |
| 28 | In my opinion , the facts of this case to which I have referred fall far short of establishing that Mr. Occhi had so consented . |
| 29 | I should say that Mr. Pegg had earlier appealed to the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) , but his appeal against his conviction had been dismissed . |
| 30 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |