Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [vb pp] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Navy blue high-heeled shoes and earrings completed the ensemble and I am reliably informed that the skirt was the ‘ new length ’ , i.e. above the knee . |
| 2 | I am reliably informed that the mighty Australian earns 10 million dollars a year and that while he chooses to live in America , he buys his snooker cue and table in England because the English , apparently , still produce the best in that line . |
| 3 | I AM reliably told that the AUSTRALIAN RUGBY UNION has eventually accepted the tour itinerary of Ireland and Wales as initially suggested . |
| 4 | I am equally persuaded that the development of certain ‘ genres ’ of art ( the drama with the ancient Greeks , or the novel , with Dostoyevsky or Joyce ) have opened up possibilities which certainly did not exist earlier . |
| 5 | I am not persuaded that the jurisdiction of the visitor involves such exceptional considerations that this principle should be departed from and that some grounds be accepted and others held not to be available for the purposes of judicial review . |
| 6 | I keep the matter under review , as I must , but in the circumstances I am not persuaded that the public interest requires me to take the necessarily large number of actions up and down the country . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 8 | There was then more silence , and I was later told that the Microwriter company had been improving the Agenda system . |
| 9 | When I was considering the applications from Foresterhill and others , I made it clear that I would not approve an application unless I was personally persuaded that the criteria would be met . |
| 10 | I was once advised that the best way to avoid jumping the gun during intercourse was to concentrate on an image that offered the minimum in erotic possibilities . |
| 11 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 12 | The development of carcinoma of the colon is dependent on both genetic and environmental factors and its is generally accepted that the development of colonic carcinoma follows the adenoma-carcinoma sequence . |
| 13 | This is n't just a ‘ one-off ’ problem , either , because you are specifically told that the Polytechnic has decided to enter the conference market . |
| 14 | Is the Attorney-General aware that , while the West Bromwich building society and financial advisers have grown fat and rich by selling home income equity bonds , 14,000 pensioners face the prospect of losing their homes , including some of my constituents who were not advised that the bonds were dangerous ? |
| 15 | She soon became absorbed , oblivious to the passage of time , and was startled when she was politely informed that the doors would shortly be closed for the midday break . |
| 16 | At first reluctant to agree to any changes , she was eventually persuaded that the riders would benefit . |
| 17 | She was fully determined that the Merchiston fortune must end with Benedict — that much she owed to Isabel 's memory — but at least some provision might be found for Theda . |
| 18 | We are also told that the lopsided mouth |
| 19 | We are also told that the new Teesdale and Teesside Park developments are in Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 20 | We are confidently informed that the ‘ amazing dreamgirl ’ with whom he partook of a ‘ romantic stroll through the mist ’ is his inamorata . |
| 21 | But we are soon warned that the young officer in the Venturer hides in his memory the image of a girl met years before , so that his response to a strange night-vision seems entirely logical . |
| 22 | ( We are frequently reminded that the brain has many millions of neurones and that these have many billions of connections ) . |
| 23 | In our day , as mentioned in chapter one , we are sometimes told that the efforts of our statesmen , the voting procedures of our councils , the ethical advances of our humanitarians , are being directed by the Holy Spirit . |
| 24 | We were also told that the fire was started in June , and was not expected to be extinguished until the start of the rains , normally in October . |
| 25 | Finally an announcement was made that there was trouble with the rear power car ; we were later told that the train would be terminated at Wolverhampton and a bus laid on to take us to Shrewsbury . |
| 26 | There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it . |
| 27 | In this part of Zurich , one is often reminded that the power of the guilds lasted until the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | One is constantly told that the difficulty is finding young people to join the voluntary ranks . |
| 29 | They were not told that the client on that occasion had cancelled the deal . |
| 30 | Rose 's family was told that the operation was a matter of life-and-death , so they gave the surgeons permission , even though they were also warned that the operation could result in further bleeding and disability . |