Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carson thereupon fell out of the contest — or rather announced that he was not standing , for no official nominations had been made . |
| 2 | I more or less demanded that Nigel be referred to her . |
| 3 | ( h ) I have no evidence at all from her mother or from any other source that Miss T. 's following of some of the beliefs and some of the practices is so well thought out or deeply considered or sincerely held that the conviction is one which would necessarily lead her to an irrevocable refusal . |
| 4 | Which left him wondering why Alexei had agreed to the proposal at all — for if he knew or even suspected that there was to be no marriage , it was difficult to see where he perceived his advantage to lie . |
| 5 | Had no one in the hospital tried to stop him leaving or even noticed that he was missing ? |
| 6 | As far as I was concerned , reading was an automatic skill rather than an indication of superior intelligence or understanding , and no one but myself seemed to have noticed the difference , or even realised that there was one . |
| 7 | It is only once the problem is well under way or even completed that one fully knows what the notation is required to do . |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend accept what is becoming obvious by now — that many of his hon. Friends , and Members in all parts of the House , have no wish or even thought that he should resign over this issue , or that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister should see fit to accept his resignation ? |
| 9 | In the main , local law societies answered the question negatively , or simply stated that it was a matter for the lender . |
| 10 | And was he given the choice before the order went out , or simply informed that it had been given ? ’ |
| 11 | He apparently forgot that I could not understand German or else decided that what he wanted to say could not be left unsaid , for he began to talk fast and seriously . |
| 12 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 13 | In the case of the cable service operator , and the producer and director of the programme in question , the defendant must show that he neither knew nor reasonably suspected that the programme would contain the offending words , or , if he did know , that he had no reasonable opportunity to remove the offending words . |
| 14 | His hands were careful and restrained , his mouth tender , and although only a very short while later , Cassie was to realize just how much self-control he had exerted at that moment of their first real physical contact , for those few minutes , she knew only that she was not afraid of him , nor even suspected that there was any need to be . |
| 15 | It has been long and widely believed that urbanization and industrialization cause large increases in crime . |
| 16 | He had brilliantly and successfully argued that the Toraja religion was one and the same with whatever " Hindu-Balinese animism " might be — and thus Toraja religion was permitted to survive . |
| 17 | The Government correctly understood and successfully argued that in most of the new areas of competence the approach should be largely intergovernmental — as was suggested by my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley ( Mr. Soames ) — thus introducing a greater element of flexibility into the future institutional arrangements of the Community . |
| 18 | Thornton exploded , and successfully demanded that Curran be booted out . |
| 19 | These excavations produced 706 bronze coins inscribed HISPANORUM , which had previously been very rare , and thereby indicated that their mint should be located at Serra Orlando . |
| 20 | For Zarathustra had spoken of the good and evil spirits as twins and thereby implied that they had a common origin . |
| 21 | The government accused Czechoslovakia ( which represented Cuba 's diplomatic interests in the United States ) of " hypocritical inconsistency " — sheltering asylum seekers while requesting official protection to deal with the " consequences " of such an action , and additionally claimed that the episode was aimed at causing embarrassment in the run-up to the July 26 celebrations . |
| 22 | Indeed , Bethurum Loomis argued that Wulfstan 's disillusion with Æthelred , and perhaps with Cnut too , can be traced in his work , stressing that he modified his views on royal sanctity , seems not to have wished to rely on the king 's ability to keep public order , and eventually stated that bishops should direct all affairs , both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 23 | The letters of the machine used for it had been brushed clean and the worn ribbon replaced at some time after the letter was typed , but all the other characteristics including misalignment of the ‘ d ’ and the unreliable shift control — had shown up in the enlargement and eventually confirmed that Wickham had found the machine he was seeking . |
| 24 | Irish diplomats mounted a full-scale search in Argentina , and eventually found that the girl was among those rescued from The Family during the police raids . |
| 25 | Tylor had thus isolated three separate customary practices and elegantly demonstrated that they formed a mutually associated complex , each element varying with the others . |
| 26 | The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste . |
| 27 | She knew very well that he had always regretted marrying her when he could have had Martha , and secretly longed that the family feud could be ended . |
| 28 | The letter was from Her Grace 's private secretary and gladly agreed that Lord John Rossendale should be given a ticket for the ball . |
| 29 | A shadowy image of herself stood there , nodding and smiling shyly , while the real Isabel remained in the cold , lonely place she had inhabited for so long and grimly decided that the first step was almost accomplished . |
| 30 | Dyson had expected to find the television studios a blaze of activity in the middle of the evening viewing hours , and humbly anticipated that he would himself be treated as a completely unimportant part of the machine-jostled indifferently in the corridors by actors , musicians , and cameramen , sighed at offensively in the studio by the technicians and professionals . |