Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [that] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , he was not one of the Palace officials who tried to pretend that the Korean trip was the Togetherness Tour for the Prince and Princess . |
| 2 | He tried to pretend that the nasty pink thing he had to strap on did n't exist , that it had nothing to do with him . |
| 3 | Dot tried to imagine that the two women in front were her footmen and she was one of the royal princesses , preferably Margaret because she would n't have to be queen which would be quite a responsibility if you thought about it , going for a drive in a carriage with her regal dogs and her regal flowers . |
| 4 | In Berlin , Bismarck pretended to believe that the internal instability affecting France presented a danger to the peace of Europe , remarking to the British Ambassador that : ‘ If the present Constitutional Government in France had been three years instead of three months in existence , there would be some chance for its duration and the maintenance of peace . ’ |
| 5 | Sartre therefore tried to show that the two were not opposed : arguing that the dialectic is produced by human subjectivity rather than inscribed within history itself , at the same time he also asserted the truth of the Marxist account of there being one history with a single meaning — a history , that is , in which all differences return as the same . |
| 6 | They tried to show that the very notion of private property , far from being an ‘ inalienable right ’ as it was stated to be in the American constitution , was , in fact , itself a product of certain unique economic , technical , and social conditions , and it was therefore reasonable to expect that this notion , like others , would be superseded when the associated relations of production changed . |
| 7 | The American silver sales at Christie 's , on 22 January , and at Sotheby 's on 28 January , seemed to confirm that the last area of the market to give way in the recession was the first to rebound . |
| 8 | Upon examining the issue for himself , Richard Baxter came to see that the episcopal system , as then constituted , was ‘ guilty of corrupting both churches and clergy ’ . |
| 9 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |
| 10 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 11 | People seemed to forget that the entire fourth zone was in a perpetual state of starvation anyway . ’ |
| 12 | He had begun to feel that he was persecuted by devils , and eventually came to believe that the Egyptian god Osiris controlled his will . |
| 13 | In the first few months of independence the Poles came to realise that the lower reaches of the Vistula waterway — their economic lifeline to the coast — had in fact been badly neglected by the Germans . |
| 14 | Not just unmetrical poets like Pound ( for the most part ) and Bunting , but also a strictly metrical poet like the later Yvor Winters , came to think that the finest auditory effects in English-language verse were attained by those poets who attended to the quantitative elements in British or American speech as an incalculable dimension super-added to the recognized and calculable dimensions of syllable-count and stresscount . |
| 15 | We came to think that the two features were of the same date , as there was no construction trench cut into the rampart front for the insertion of the wall . |
| 16 | The German Social Democratic leaders , Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel , were also in the first instance critical , since the Polish argument seemed to imply that the territorial expansionism of imperialism in general , and Prussia in particular , did not matter any longer beside the development of supranational class unity . |
| 17 | The review seemed to think that the swinging Sixties contained a readership , among others , that would be shocked by the novel 's candour and scabrousness about sex — ‘ no doubt he has touched himself on the raw . |
| 18 | ‘ Life 's like that , ’ she answered him , and he too seemed to feel that the simple words said more than they usually did . |
| 19 | William Beveridge showed more appreciation of the problems posed by the burden of women 's household tasks when he stated that the ‘ housewife 's job , with a large family is frankly impossible and will remain so unless some of what has now to be done separately in every home can be done economically outside the home ’ ( although he never failed to assume that the final responsibility for domestic work rested with women ) . |
| 20 | ] Neo-classical theories failed to perceive that the characteristic features of the real world ( to which nothing in the perfectly competitive model corresponds ) are simply the manifestations of entrepreneurial competition , a process in which would-be buyers and sellers gropingly seek to discover each other 's supply and demand curves . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember once , though , when Sounds were searching for an interview and I happened to know that the whole thing was a set-up . |
| 22 | Later , while Rachel was checking supplies , Nina happened to mention that the new MO seemed to be proving more popular with the staff than the previous one had been , then added , ‘ Just as long as they do n't think he 's a soft touch and that they can come in here with a finger ache and think he 'll send them home . ’ |
| 23 | He began to see that God was not a tyrant but a loving Father ; he began to see that the Christian life was not a series of impossible demands to satisfy the whims of an unreasonable employer ; he began to see that he was welcome because of who he was , and not on the basis of what he could achieve . |
| 24 | Slowly Michael Ramsey began to realize that the eternal verities were more important to him than the political excitements . |
| 25 | I began to realize that the absent Celia had not had an altogether easy time with Aunt Louise in her care . |
| 26 | Travelling abroad , in defiance of all customary diplomatic niceties , the Romanian couple began to demand that the First Deputy Prime Minister receive the same awards as her husband . |
| 27 | But he was firm as a rock — so firm that she began to suspect that the whole episode was a ruse . |
| 28 | It began to seem that the entire storehouse was made up of substances which looked harmless and beautiful on the surface , but which changed and blurred and coalesced as you approached them . |
| 29 | The police began to believe that the dead man must have been a foreigner , killed on some ship visiting London 's river , his body disposed of in the darkness , leaving the ship to sail away . |
| 30 | He believed that the political commitment existed to ensure that the independent countries of the region would co-operate effectively to reduce their dependence on South Africa , and accelerate economic development ; and that such a new grouping could influence decisively the way that offical development assistance was used in the region , and the course of development co-operation in general . |