Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] [vb past] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also made it clear that she preferred to be alone . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , however , it had become clear that there had to be a replacement DMU which was placed midway in size and cost between the railbuses and the 210 units . |
| 3 | I 'm just sorry that it had to be Oldham . ’ |
| 4 | Rachel was relieved that everything seemed to be running so smoothly , not only with the setting up of the chat-line but with the new , easygoing atmosphere in the centre . |
| 5 | While at the city 's Royal Hospital , he took a detour to the maternity ward , where he caused one woman to laugh so much that she had to be whisked away quickly for a premature birth . |
| 6 | It is understood that the Bank of England backed higher rates to protect the pound but was less convinced that they needed to be raised to cool down the economy any further . |
| 7 | But we may be glad that she decided to be feminine , as thus she was made . |
| 8 | Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty . |
| 9 | The girl became so ill that she had to be taken away . |
| 10 | The fabric was so fine that she appeared to be naked in the bright light . |
| 11 | Ultimately it was inevitable that there had to be recourse to legal action to remove the ban . |
| 12 | I mean the focus of the plan and the way we 've approached erm trying to identify the appropriate level of of land takes into account all that we considered to be the needs of the local economy . |
| 13 | The Lord Mayor who saved the king and all that he stood for was William Walworth . |
| 14 | The picture was so circumstantial that it began to be convincing , and Harry 's heart hammered in his breast with hope and dread . |
| 15 | In Normandy , indeed , their importance grew so great that they began to be promoted to bishoprics after about 1060 , a move reminiscent of Ottonian and Salian practice . |
| 16 | And we stood there , me with a great big frown on my face , quite mystified that William could n't see what I was getting at … and William smiling but looking equally puzzled that I appeared to be incapable of understanding what he meant . |
| 17 | It was evident that he wanted to be not simply in the forest , but somehow at one with it ; rooted in the same fertile earth . |
| 18 | It was n't purely coincidental that she happened to be carrying the details of previous work experience , for she 'd expected that the secretarial agency might want to see them . |
| 19 | He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night . |
| 20 | When running the Student Advisory Centre , he had taken telephone calls from homosexuals , assuming at first that they wished to be ‘ cured ’ . |
| 21 | Offers continued to roll in , some so tempting that I did not see how she could refuse them , but with four children now of whom none was over twelve , she was adamant that she wished to be with them , and this meant that we could move further afield . |
| 22 | At the extreme , some nuclear waste was so intensely radioactive that it had to be kept isolated from the human environment for thousands of years . |
| 23 | Their clothing was so radioactive that it had to be destroyed . |
| 24 | Even in our progressive and sanguine moods , the utmost that we hoped for was a very gradual and a very tentative improvement . |
| 25 | It is also not surprising that there continued to be those who believed the papacy on its own incapable of reforming the Church , and that a Council was needed . |
| 26 | Fortunately for the Labour Party , the position of the Tories as the party of government was less secure that it appeared to be in the late '50s . |
| 27 | When they came I was rather surprised that there seemed to be so many ; I said I had no idea that I 'd ordered as many as this . |
| 28 | It is perhaps significant that there appeared to be more choice of newspaper than of television news . |
| 29 | It was so bad that it had to be buried in quick lime in Toby Wood ; special ‘ funeral ’ cards were printed for the occasion . |