Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] that these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1820 Alter all the labour of " obtaining pint and choppin standard measure out of Stirling castle , which have been proven & marked by the Dean of Guild of Stirling as correct , some of members of this meeting ventured to say that these jugs are composed of tin , and easily dimpled , whereas they are composed of the strongest sheet copper tinned within to prevent corrosion . |
| 2 | Sitting there in the Cathedral Close in the weak spring sunlight , trying to grasp the enormity of the events we had lived through , we gradually came to accept that these things were now in the past , and the war was really over . |
| 3 | At home , money meant food or perhaps , if one had saved a lot , more land , but here the shops were full of the most amazing commodities and getting money at the end of the week seemed to suggest that these things were within one 's reach . |
| 4 | You 'd thought that these houses could of least put a bit of paint on |
| 5 | As we began to talk I began to realize that these people were just like me . |
| 6 | I personally needed to know that these ideas were not wrong . |
| 7 | In this work he needed to know that these numbers factorised uniquely into primes ( 3.7.13 ) just as do the ordinary integers . |
| 8 | The Nation ( Bangkok ) reported on Jan. 30 that " two leading Western narcotics experts based in Thailand " had commented that these claims seemed exaggerated and that the military government had been doing little to try to reduce opium production since it seized power in 1988 . |
| 9 | The Leader of the Council , Eric Pickles , speaking at the Tory Conference in 1988 , had promised that these reforms would place the customer first and that Labour would be swept from control of the cities and Town Halls . |
| 10 | We asked whether the Russians had requested that these Cossacks should be turned over to them , and Robertson replied in the negative and added " but they probably will soon " . |
| 11 | We asked whether the Russians had requested that these Cossacks should be turned over to him and Robertson replied in the negative and added " but they probably will soon " … |
| 12 | He just had to hope that these nomes felt the same way . |
| 13 | I had hoped that these weekends of dashing about Britain with estate agents ' details in my lap were a thing of the past . |
| 14 | They tended to stress that these women were the hapless , passive victims of debauched aristocrats and manipulative medics , who were eager to be reformed given the necessary moral intervention from without . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , Connie , ’ said Brian , as one who expected as much : he wanted to say that these characters of whom his stepdaughter spoke contributed nothing valuable to society , but was unprepared to defend the ethics and value of advertising in a market economy to a girl who was incapable of grasping the subtleties of an argument . |