Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1865 several experimenters were on the brink of discovering the important principle of self-excitation , and early in 1866 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on ‘ A New and Powerful Generator of Dynamic Electricity ’ , but failed to realize that practical self-excitation was within his grasp . |
| 2 | The arguments in Beyond the Pleasure Principle which sought to establish that all organisms aim at death , a return to the state of inanimate matter , were admitted by Freud to be ones which could be overthrown by later biological research . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So , as they had done with the relations of production , Marx and Engels tried to show that this state of affairs was not inevitable , but the product of a specific historical development . |
| 5 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 6 | Ultimately , he came to realize that this persecution complex existed only in his own mind , and that his unpopularity in Barbados arose from his walking out on them . |
| 7 | This seemed to indicate that those areas with full-time farmers were the most efficient but there were many other factors to be considered . |
| 8 | With the exception of some Christian pacifists and a handful of far-left revolutionaries , no part of the peace movement , before 1939 , came to accept that another war was unavoidable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After this type of cathartic outburst , no one seemed to reflect that this offender had a determinate sentence and would be allowed out eventually . |
| 11 | In general terms , where any tax or duty was paid by a citizen pursuant to an unlawful demand , common justice seemed to require that that tax or duty ought to be repaid , unless special circumstances or some principle of policy required otherwise . |
| 12 | Indeed , the logic seemed to require that such punishment should take place in public . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | With the Tories moving on to more radical positions , and the Labour Party now much more centrist , logic seemed to dictate that this kind of Alliance supporter should move back to a Social Democratic outlook identical with that of old Gaitskellites . |
| 15 | The people who used this vile slander seemed to believe that any kind of troubled , troubling music , anything introspective or tragic , was self-indulgent wallowing . |
| 16 | Garway was a staunch Royalist , who nevertheless , like his early associate John Vaughan , seemed to believe that constant vigilance had to be exercised to prevent the loss of England 's liberties or the wasting of its wealth . |
| 17 | It was betrayal , too , when in the 1960s and 1970s many people like me who thought of themselves as ‘ progressive ’ came to believe that mental illness did not exist . |
| 18 | Indeed , social morality leaders came to believe that earlier marriages would discourage resort to prostitution . |
| 19 | Instead , a new grouping of critics , working under the influence of theorists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault , came to realise that literary texts did not mark out expression which could somehow break free of the culture which produced them . |
| 20 | She came to realise that any woman who aimed to share his life would always have to be self-sufficient and able to cope with the day-to-day problems of life without bothering him with the minutiae of domestic detail . |
| 21 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 22 | Reynolds seemed to realise that such objections could go on for ever , so he said , ‘ Yes . |
| 23 | She seemed to realise that this comment was not exactly reassuring and hastened to make amends . |
| 24 | In addition , research on large lexicons seemed to imply that lexicon-based constraints could constrain the identity of a word on the basis of very little phonemic information . |
| 25 | The one who was born Greek and fluent , had lost his baggage , presumably in transit in London , and wanted action , and seemed to think that young Erlich would do the needful . |
| 26 | On the contrary , he seemed to think that popular art and literature were themselves full of devices which experimentalists were trying to recapture , as if ‘ intellectual montage ’ or ‘ dream time ’ were implicit in folk fables , riddles and jokes . |
| 27 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 28 | Gradually , however , governments came to feel that second-best considerations could not be ignored . |
| 29 | It was a scene of desperation , but Dahrendorf seemed to feel that this kind of community DIY activity could be a part of the answer to the problem of a permanent and growing rate of unemployment . |
| 30 | Mr. Lassman sought to suggest that this offence was aimed solely at hacking , and hacking , which is a word that finds no place in the Act , he says , means using one computer to access another . |