Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the sound of crunching from the hallway confirmed that Holmes was having a remote control snack . |
| 2 | During his conversations with Marcus , when they did take place , Ludens had the impression that Marcus was pursuing a consecutive line of thought , sections of which were randomly surfacing for Ludens 's benefit , or even for Marcus 's benefit , at moments when Marcus felt it might clarify his ideas to verbalise them aloud , and even to listen to a response . |
| 3 | He began to move round the Lad , and Taliesin , who was watching closely , thought that Fael-Inis was creating an invisible circle . |
| 4 | At the time my feeling was that David was making a conscious decision to become big .. |
| 5 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 6 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 7 | Hammond Wilde had seen the advantages of producing a really lavish brochure which made the point that Royalbion was sponsoring the Million Sterling Tournament . |
| 8 | Second , the furore obscured the fact that Velikovsky was making an important point : catastrophes have occurred in the past . |
| 9 | ‘ It means that Marius was retaining a beneficial interest in the gift . ’ |
| 10 | By 1917 , the year that he first came into contact with Sartre , the very year that Lenin was establishing a new revolutionary Soviet state , three years before the birth of the French communist party , this future activist of the French Left was in the throes of a major personal crisis brought about by the demise of his father . |
| 11 | It had long been suspected by the western powers that Russia was developing an atomic bomb , and in 1951 such a bomb was tested in the U.S.S.R. |
| 12 | This meant addressing various specific requests to the Turks , telling them what the consequences of refusal would be , and informing the major European courts that Russia was giving the Ottoman Empire a last chance . |
| 13 | Americans , for example , believed that Stalin was following a definite plan for the expansion of communism throughout the world — when in reality his aim may have been the much more defensive one of building barriers round the Russian homeland . |
| 14 | When it was learned that Stratford was convening a provincial council to oppose or denounce this annulment , he and other bishops received writs of prohibition forbidding them to do so . |
| 15 | It was announced that HCIMA was to lead a major industry initiative to consider a Quality assurance programme designed specifically for the industry . |
| 16 | One might say that Barthes was examining the social representation of Einstein , yet to say this might be to use ‘ social representation ’ in a loose sense . |
| 17 | Moscow claimed that Brzezinksi was planning a new military bloc in the region based on his proposed ‘ structure of regional security ’ composed of conservative regimes in the Near and Middle East . |
| 18 | The alarm that such a prospect generated in England was real and intense : in March 1336 Philip VI ordered the French fleet which had been assembling in the Mediterranean for a crusade to transfer to the mouth of the Seine , and Edward felt convinced that Philip was planning a large-scale invasion of England . |
| 19 | On Oct. 5 UNITA withdrew from the Angolan Armed Forces ( FAA ) , the new national army formed in September [ ibid. ] , leading to accusations from the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen that UNITA was violating the 1991 peace accord with the government [ see p. 38180 ] . |
| 20 | He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts . |
| 21 | Mr Tuffin said : ‘ I was never happy that Di was driving a German car . |
| 22 | No , it 's just that Jill was asking the other day and I said I ca n't remember . |
| 23 | Of course , it was n't made any easier by the fact that Jack was attracting a great deal of interest , anyway . |
| 24 | He was sure that McAllister was undergoing the same experience . |
| 25 | A US State Department official , Charles E. Redman , on March 10 admitted US " concerns about the possible uses of this ( Egyptian ) equipment " , but the Egyptian President , Hosni Mubarak , speaking on the same day at a news conference in Brussels , Belgium , denied that Egypt was building a chemical weapons plant , adding that " we are all against chemical weapons ' . |
| 26 | In March 1989 the USA had voiced its concern that Egypt was developing a chemical weapons plant with Swiss help at the Abu Zaabal military complex north of Cairo , an allegation denied by Egyptian officials ( see also p. 37224 ) . |
| 27 | In the light of this , the announcement in 1989 that Honda was to take a 20 per cent stake in Rover , was seen as a further cementing of ties between the two companies and a long term commitment to Rover 's development by Honda . |
| 28 | He could not know that Sophia was taking a keen interest in him and had even been considering him — provided he were not divorced or otherwise unsuitable-as a husband for her sister . |
| 29 | As the Chinese President Yang Shangkun visited Tehran and Esfahan in central Iran on Oct. 30-Nov. 2 , unnamed officials in the US administration were quoted in the Washington Post of Oct. 31 as claiming that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon using calutron equipment — capable of producing highly enriched uranium — purchased from China . |
| 30 | This subject bred its share of Middle Eastern coffee-shop rumours , as for example in April 1984 , when a London newspaper — citing unidentified Gulf sources — reported that Iran was making a nuclear bomb , to be available two years later . |