Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pron] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 2 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 3 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 4 | Sent off for my tickets for the aforementioned match on Monday , only to find out on Tuesday that it 's been postponed ( effin Bright ) . |
| 5 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 6 | And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 7 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 8 | He said in a Commons written reply that there has been mounting concern over the costs of veterinary supervision , with hourly fees reaching £40 . |
| 9 | It reminded her too strongly for her own good that he had been doled out far too much fatal charm . |
| 10 | — The supergroup Six of the Best is so popular at Seaham 's Westlea Social Club that they have been booked to appear for three nights as part of the club 's 39th birthday celebrations on June 12 , 13 and 14 . |
| 11 | Colt knew his target at once from the photograph that he had been given . |
| 12 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 13 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 14 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |
| 15 | How many of you have been hearing whispers in your mind that you have been ignoring ? … . |
| 16 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 17 | Winnie Mandela told supporters that she had been found guilty by the media . |
| 18 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 19 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 20 | Apart from , as CAJEC chairman said , ‘ clearing up any misunderstanding that this enquiry procedure is just restricted to audits — it applies to all assignments ’ , other significant changes include requiring firms to provide minimum accounting information to a successor even where fees remain outstanding and stronger procedures to be followed by firms to inform the existing adviser that they have been invited to take on additional work . |
| 21 | Infas said 10pc of West Germans and 4pc in the formerly Communist East agreed wholeheartedly with the statement : ‘ It is the Jews ’ own fault that they have been persecuted so often in their history . ’ |
| 22 | In response , Pat Arbor , the chairman of the Board of Trade , said it was not the exchange 's fault that it had been duped by Stotler 's doctored financial records . |
| 23 | Was it Dominic 's fault that he had been given the job she wanted so badly ? |
| 24 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 25 | We 're discussing this morning , and I 'll run briefly through the subjects that we have been discussing this morning for the er , new listeners . |
| 26 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 27 | No indication that anyone had been killed in it or done anything else in it but sit in it . |
| 28 | These documents demonstrate a commitment to developing broadly based , open political agitation , but they contain little about a civil rights strategy in the north ; such a strategy could be deduced from the analysis which they contain , but the documents give no indication that it had been proposed in any detail . |
| 29 | These satellites are in geostationary orbit and the images that they provide are used primarily in weather forecasting applications . |
| 30 | The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching . |