Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we had become very curious about why none of the drains had fallen out , it transpired that she was diligently cutting an inch a day off the other end ! ’ |
| 2 | Phrases such as ‘ out of date ’ and ‘ old fashioned ’ suggest that we are always moving on to better things . |
| 3 | There are new analyses — German and American — which suggest that we are now leaving such a world , not entering it : that the cold war , falsely represented as a balance of terror between two superpowers , was in reality the period of almost challenged American global dominations . |
| 4 | Among the first people known to have used pearls for jewellery were the ancient Egyptians , who wore them as pendants to earrings and threaded onto necklaces alongside cowries , coral , scarabs and precious stones certainly as early as the middle of the second millennium B.C. Tomb paintings depict them wearing pearls on their clothing and chest-ornaments of mother-of-pearl suggest that they were already exploiting the Red Sea fisheries , later mentioned by Strabo and other Classical writers , by the twelfth dynasty . |
| 5 | Why this 1% of 17 year olds still had a non-retractile foreskin was not stated , but data from a subsequent study suggest that they were probably suffering from balanitis xerotica obliterans . |
| 6 | Studies of individual towns suggest that they were severely hit , that properties were deserted and that in some cases parishes had to be united , as the existing ones were too poor to maintain the services of the Church ( 77 , pp.286–8 ) . |
| 7 | Most typically , the apparent reality of the object is an effect of its being treated like a painting ; the text frames its object and then refers to it in terms that suggest that it is already represented on a canvas . |
| 8 | Appointments as sub-dean ( 1809 ) and treasurer ( 1813 ) suggest that he was early marked out for appointment as dean ; this came in 1824 , when he succeeded the handsome but incapable C. H. Hall [ q.v. ] , other candidates being Edmund Goodenough , headmaster of Westminster , and Charles LLoyd , another canon of Christ Church . |
| 9 | Although some poems , especially her essays , suggest that she is also looking toward a wider audience , in the vast majority of poems she speaks specifically to some woman she knows . |
| 10 | The company adds that it is already benefiting from increased efficiency and expects a large return on its financial investment in Weldon . |
| 11 | ‘ How are you ? ’ — ‘ I 'm fine ’ , and talk about the weather are designed to make another individual feel comfortable , to let them know that we are positively disposed towards them when we can not think of anything more significant to say . |
| 12 | Mr. Grist : The Hon. Gentleman should know that we are still awaiting the proposals of the Mid-Glamorgan health authority for the funding of that new hospital . |
| 13 | This is , this is where Deborah will then go back , this is , comes into your three hour training so you wo n't have this problem cos they 'll all have been , they 'll all know that they 're just talking about certain things . |
| 14 | She 'd have to ring her parents , of course , to let them know that she was definitely extending her holiday . |
| 15 | You do n't know that you are inadvertently causing the work to arrive late by stressing its urgency any more than you know what thoughts and feelings are going on inside the typist . |
| 16 | Despite this , Nozick 's account can be used to show that you do know that you are currently sitting reading a philosophy book ( please sit down first ) . |
| 17 | But do you know that it 's actually saved you from losing any of these employees . |
| 18 | Of course the inspectorate is highly respected in Wales , but the hon. Gentleman will know that it was never geared to carry out inspections with the frequency that we expect will result from the provisions of the Education ( Schools ) Bill and that we envisage in the parents charter . |
| 19 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 20 | Even if he comes by it innocently , nevertheless once he gets to know that it was originally given in confidence , he can be restrained from breaking that confidence . |
| 21 | Dear Rosemary , ‘ I thought you would like to know that I 'm still following your diet ( almost anyway and I have never felt better for years . |
| 22 | In the half-hour I had spent with Lord Byron , I had forgotten that it was again raining steadily . |
| 23 | Even though the defendant knew the names and addresses of all customers , the quality of contact was not of the degree required in order to establish that he was ever regarded as " being the business " or even had any influence over the customers . |
| 24 | The Soviet Union has reclassified three army divisions , all with heavy equipment , as naval forces , and has claimed that they are thereby excluded from the terms of the treaty : a trick the West calls cheating . |
| 25 | It 's claimed that he was secretly paid commission for awarding work to three firms in Italy , Germany and Norway . |
| 26 | Hello tape recorder , you seemed to go off there for a while , I 'm just checking that you 're still working again , thanks very much . |
| 27 | It is a condition of booking that you are adequately insured on your holiday . |
| 28 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 29 | God 's people are to be practical in their love , because we realise that we were once restrained and confined , unable to live as God intended us to live . |
| 30 | Looking at the event dispassionately , I realise that I was probably chosen because the film had to be ‘ in the can ’ ( a technical term we film people use for ‘ finished ’ ) by the end of February . |