Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have felt no less if he 'd been told that Berowne was dead of a coronary or killed in a car smash . |
| 2 | His spirits sank , but after trying another non-German ship without success , he remembered being briefed that Rostock was worth trying . |
| 3 | She remembered being told that Nahum was dead . |
| 4 | All her life she had been taught that Philip and his kind were aliens in possession of land which they had stolen from its rightful owners . |
| 5 | It had been hinted that England might abandon their Indian plans and arrange an emergency tour to either New Zealand or Zimbabwe . |
| 6 | By 1845 it had been discovered that eggs were ejected spontaneously but this largely failed to affect existing views of sexuality . |
| 7 | Yesterday , Frank Malcolm , 49 , a director and stockbroker at Bell Lawrie White , confirmed that Mackie had immediately told his colleagues after a meeting with Peter Runciman , former executive chairman of Shanks&McEwan , that he had been warned that company profits would be lower than first thought . |
| 8 | His man had been warned that Pintsch was not to be put off , whatever the occasion , so The Fat One — without irony — shouted ‘ Come ’ when the bedroom door was knocked . |
| 9 | It had been recognized that Liberals had been more adept at handling the press because they were more ready to stoop to newspaper practices , as Sandars had reported in 1909 : |
| 10 | On the previous day , it had been announced that Spain 's status would , henceforth , be " non-belligerent " rather than neutral . |
| 11 | It had been announced that members of the BCRS were welcome . |
| 12 | As one of Francesca 's DTI colleagues had maliciously observed , it had been felt that fraternization with the American colleagues could be carried too far . |
| 13 | In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success . |
| 14 | It had been believed that England would be seeded to head Group F and would thus be based in Calgiari , Sardinia . |
| 15 | In the general election of 1970 there had , for instance , been no discussion of the settlement issue ; it had been assumed that ujamaa would continue to be a voluntary movement . |
| 16 | Reporting the statement , Reuters said that it had been assumed that Pol Pot was directing the Khmers Rouges from secret bases . |
| 17 | It was only after his appointment had been confirmed that Sutton demanded a nine-month notice period , which was in such stark contravention of the paper 's equality principles that Christine Jackson took his contract to the Board . |
| 18 | The visit followed a meeting between Miyazawa and Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the UN headquarters in New York in January 1992 , when it had been confirmed that Yeltsin would visit Japan in September 1992 , and when Yeltsin reportedly gave assurances that Russia would honour the 1956 agreement . |
| 19 | Regional Official Walter Ievers said it had been confirmed that schools are under no statutory obligation to report to parents of children finishing primary seven and third form in secondary and grammar schools in the way the Department has indicated in the recent Parents Guide . |
| 20 | It had been argued that exchange rate flexibility allows the individual country to determine its own monetary policy and , therefore , choose its preferred rate of inflation . |
| 21 | For a long time it had been accepted that humans could not survive on worlds which were in orbit around any sun which was capable of being classed as a red giant . |
| 22 | It had been hoped that Dr Bamford and Dr Wolkind would contribute a chapter for this book but time constraints made this impossible . |
| 23 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 24 | It had been thought that Mr Prescott would replace Bryan Gould , the trade and industry spokesman . |
| 25 | The County and Borough authorities had been informed that accommodation at the workhouse was too limited for it to be used as a place of detention under the Children 's Act of 1909 . |
| 26 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
| 27 | In proceedings by C against A for an interlocutory injunction the House of Lords held that a prima facie case had been established that A was liable for procuring breaches by B of the hiring contracts , the unlawful means being the inducement of X to ‘ black ’ the barges . |
| 28 | He said that in Derry , down through the years , it had been established that Loyalists could parade in certain places , Republicans in certain places . |
| 29 | It had been estimated that savings of up to £40,000 a school could be made through closures , but that was not the only factor taken into consideration , he said . |
| 30 | Early on in the running of the clinic it had been found that treatment with house dust 200 alone was less effective and less long-lasting if the avoidance programme was not also undertaken , but it was not possible , from the nature of the study , to assess what proportion of the benefit was attributable to each measure . |