Example sentences of "that [noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be significant that Clovis was murdered at about this time , apparently at Fredegund 's instigation . |
| 2 | The superintendent said she wanted some men to investigate the stories that Nicola was looking into before her death — child porn and drugs . |
| 3 | It was revealed that Newall was staying with with friends in Fulham when Rachel was killed . |
| 4 | The version that Bethel was working towards in this statement was not precisely the road that the CNAA was to take in the mid-1980s but it was an outline model of development at the end of the 1970s which attempted to go beyond the decisions contained in the CNAA 's 1979 document . |
| 5 | Moreover , when we consider the courses that Pound was led into by his conviction of the civic responsibility of the man of letters — his money pamphlets of the 1930s , his desperate visit home in 1938 to keep the USA out of war with Italy , particularly his wartime broadcasts over Rome radio — we have some right to conclude either that the artist has no civic responsibility at all , or else that that responsibility can safely be discharged only in his art and nowhere else . |
| 6 | Yet investigations of the writing process suggest that there is more than one way to salvation and that what suits one pupil may well hinder another — the protracted act of discovery and experiment that Thomas was engaged in with his piece of wood writings may well be a complete turn-off for another child . |