Example sentences of "that [noun prp] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kerry now fears her original suspicions were correct — that Ben was abducted by one of the bands of gipsies roaming the Greek isles . |
| 2 | For example , we have the form of expression ‘ when I said ‘ Napoleon was crowned in 1804 ’ I meant the man who won the battle of Austerlitz' and we are inclined to interpret the use of the past tense ‘ meant ’ as meaning that the idea of Napoleon having won the battle of Austerlitz must have been present in the speaker 's mind when he said that Napoleon was crowned in 1804 . |
| 3 | Three years ago , two art historians , Francesca Capelletti and Laura Testa , published an article which shows that Caravaggio was paid for this ‘ Christ taken into Captivity ’ in 1602 by one Ciriaco Mattei ; that the painting descended in the same family until 1802 , when it was bought , together with other pictures , by the Scottish Hamilton Nisbet family , who sold it again in Dodwell 's rooms in Edinburgh in 1921 . |
| 4 | In years to come , when the new road has fallen into disuse and the plaque has been worn away by time , people may come here and wonder what is the hidden significance of the stones ; or maybe by then , they 'll have discovered that Stonehenge was built by some ancient farmer , commemmorating a new bypass . |
| 5 | Here as elsewhere it was evident that Molly was held in great affection and devotion by her friends and we are happy that many are now our friends . |
| 6 | They lost despite the fact that Warrington were reduced to 12 men five minutes into the second half . |
| 7 | The records show that Tepilit was hanged on 18 March 1944 . |
| 8 | Benninghoff , a political adviser to Hodge , reported in October 1945 that Korea was divided into two groups — the Radical/Communist and Conservative/Democratic . |
| 9 | The major difference was that north Korea evolved along wholly different lines and that Korea was divided into two states . |
| 10 | The Historia Brittonum ( ch. 63 ) states that Eadwine was baptized with thousands of his people by a Briton , Rhun , son of Urbgen ( possibly to be identified with Urien , lord of Rheged ) , but this may rest on a confusion of Bede 's account of mass-baptisms by Paulinus in the River Glen near Yeavering ( HE 11 , 14 ) with the occasion of the baptism of Eadwine which took place in York ( HE 11 , 14 ) . |
| 11 | By 1411 Hus had become so influential that Prague was laid under papal interdict . |
| 12 | It is riot unlikely that Robert was connected with this family . |
| 13 | It is unsound to argue that Svidrigailov 's experience was only a bad dream , because the manuscript variants prove that Dostoevsky was prepared at one stage to forego the actuality of the sexual outcome between Stavrogin and the child . |
| 14 | He was just about to speak when he became aware that Willie was absorbed in some task . |
| 15 | Yet it was perhaps fitting that Jesus was born in this squalid town . |
| 16 | We knew he was the owner of the club and — while he ca n't have been more than four-foot-nine inches tall — we knew that Soho was run by Maltese gangsters just like him . |
| 17 | But all their training that October was put to limited use , for after they had flown to Gibraltar , the Admiralty forbade any landings , the Flag Officer Gibraltar considering these would compromise security and warn the French of the invasion . |
| 18 | What is perhaps surprising , if it is the case that Beccaria was moved by humane sentiments towards the individual offender , is that he did not use this argument more often . |
| 19 | It was from this base that Marian was invited in 1976 to apply to sit as an Assistant Recorder on the North-Eastern Circuit . |
| 20 | The idea that Summerchild was murdered by Naval Intelligence seems at least as plausible an explanation as anything else I can think of … |
| 21 | But the news that Dalglish is prepared for another big-name auction will dismay his former Liverpool team-mate Graeme Souness , as he makes his own bid for Ferdinand . |
| 22 | Exactly what happened is not known for certain , but the most likely scenario is that Crabb was intercepted by Russian frogmen and taken on board the Ordzhonikidze through a ‘ wet chamber ’ . |
| 23 | There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate . |
| 24 | In the light of what was to follow , it could be argued that Scapula was panicked into rash measures , excusable only as military necessities , but their effect on the Britons was to be as deplorable for them as for Rome . |
| 25 | The fact that Europe was split into ten zones reflects the politics of the global system rather than its technology , and suggests that ‘ the world is not shrinking everywhere like a deflated balloon , but very irregularly , more like a dried apple , furrowed and distorted ’ ( Cherry , 1978 , p.135 ) . |
| 26 | They rejected the Georgians ' argument that the 5,000 dollars given to match officials prior to the first leg game was legitimate expenses and reinforced the judgement that Tbilisi be expelled from this season 's competition and the next one they qualify for . |
| 27 | Hitachi says that Bibliotheca is based on Hitachi-developed technology called the hierarchical pre-search method . |
| 28 | The court heard that Davies was jailed for nine months in 1985 for threatening to damage by fire Department of Heath and Social Security offices . |
| 29 | Despite frequent pauses to listen for the doleful cries of lost sheep , the roaring wind was so loud that George was deafened to any other sounds . |
| 30 | A month after he had written to Hitler , in a speech made on the fourth anniversary of the 1936 rising , Franco demanded that Gibraltar be returned to Spanish sovereignty . |