Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not long after this happy event Fergie became depressed that Andrew would be away in Australia for some months and that she and her baby were being ‘ abandoned ’ . |
| 2 | He said recent legislation and jurisprudence made clear that regulators are not liable to investors . |
| 3 | Sze made clear that Hong Kong would not drop the February deadline lightly , and he held open the possibility that the bill would be published and tabled in the legislature even if talks with China began . |
| 4 | It made clear that elections to a constitution-drafting constituent assembly should be held in mid-1993 or by the end of the year at the latest , and that it would not tolerate any party which lost this election " paralysing " the elected government . |
| 5 | Mr Smith made clear that Labour 's first response would be to seek entry to the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System and that its spending priorities would be pensions and child poverty . |
| 6 | After initially welcoming this movement , Plekhanov , Lenin and other ‘ orthodox ’ Social Democrats became afraid that concentration on immediate economic goals might lead the emergent labour movement to become preoccupied with merely economic rather than political goals . |
| 7 | Over the next few days it became clear that Jake was avoiding her . |
| 8 | But as the night wore on , it became clear that Univac had been right all along . |
| 9 | In the early 1970s the cynical and exploitative role of multinational companies appeared to be confirmed as it became clear that Shell and BP , the latter half-owned by the British government , were the principal source of oil supplies to the outlawed Smith regime of Rhodesia . |
| 10 | On May 24th it became clear that America has won the contest hands down . |
| 11 | Soon it became clear that Sarah was seriously ill with rheumatic fever and would not be able to work for some time , and another girl , Hetty , was engaged temporarily . |
| 12 | It also became clear that women were greatly under-represented among that minority of elderly people who had such occupational pensions . |
| 13 | He remained with Champneys until 1880 , but it soon became clear that architecture would never be his chief preoccupation . |
| 14 | After a moment it became clear that Alexei was excusing himself . |
| 15 | One morning , it became clear that NARCOG was not the only group using Filanta Court as a base for its intelligence operations . |
| 16 | Soon , however , it became clear that Cruikshank had promised more than he could deliver , and after two months of waiting , all hopes of Adscombe were given Up . |
| 17 | However , it soon became clear that Laura could not secretly organize such a major undertaking while based abroad , and , in desperation , brought in Deborah , She , realizing the potential of the project , begged another year and set up the operation openly in the company 's London workroom at Clapham . |
| 18 | After potential topics were tentatively divided into meanings and non-meanings , it soon became clear that meanings could not be included into the range of possible existents . |
| 19 | It became clear that Iran was still aiming at a battlefield victory , posing specific preconditions for an end to the war : reparations and the removal of Saddam and his entire regime . |
| 20 | The Guildford Four were freed in 1990 after it became clear that evidence used against them had been fabricated by the police . |
| 21 | OSF/1 was ACE 's primary Unix focus when the initiative was launched amidst much fanfare last year , but over the following months it became clear that DEC was the only major ACE member committed to using the operating system . |
| 22 | It soon became clear that France 's tradition of ‘ assimilation ’ and centralised control over her colonies had won out over any real desire to share power with native peoples . |
| 23 | Some Tories were obviously nervous about converting their disaffection into active treason once it became clear that France , the Jacobites ' main European ally , was in no position to back an expeditionary force . |
| 24 | Clearly that justification collapsed once it became clear that shareholders in large public companies no longer exercised any real control or responsibility over their property . |
| 25 | The radiocarbon discrepancy was confirmed and it became clear that radiocarbon results would need to be calibrated to convert them to calendar ages . |
| 26 | In desperation , she managed to get the head of a psychiatric hospital near Plymouth to travel to Four Winds , when it became clear that Liza 's agoraphobia was too severe to allow her to make the journey to him . |
| 27 | But it soon became clear that Washington was prepared to promise no more than a continuing exchange of views " to bring our respective viewpoints as close as possible " . |
| 28 | It soon became clear that Sam and Luke had many acquaintances in common ; they chatted easily , and Anna was skilful at drawing Merrill into the conversation . |
| 29 | This done it soon became clear that Clairvaux had been no more than a pretext and that the real problems lay elsewhere . |
| 30 | Unfortunately for the government , it became clear that Mosley meant what he said about the scandal of mass unemployment and the greater scandal of Labour 's failure to do anything about it . |