Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1	He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ .
2	I just need er , some that I think are on level five and some of them I think are there
3	It was possible that he had been in the Rolls with his father on the Sunday night .
4	After his liaison ended and he was alone again , he wrote simply and forlornly , ‘ I hated being alone so much that I preferred being with a bad whore to being alone . ’
5	He was convinced that he had been on target .
6	It was obvious that he had been under house arrest at some point in his life . ’
7	‘ After all that we 've been to each other over the years , Dane , darling … ’
8	All that we ask is for sufficient land so that we may then help ourselves .
9	In every way , Henry V acted as if all that he did was to be lasting in its effects .
10	All that you behold is for the most part , simply broadcasting equipment .
11	Those that you think are worth persevering with can be grown on for another year , getting a second chance to bloom .
12	Walt Disney also suggested that Shere Khan , the villain of the piece , was aristocratic and regal rather than the slavering , growling heavy that he had been in development .
13	Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look .
14	I was almost certain that she had been to the British Museum no more recently than I had myself .
15	In drawing comparisons between the state of credit marketing in the US and her , I am mindful that I have been in the UK for a long time and of that famous Bacon quote , ‘ Time is the greatest innovator ’ .

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