Example sentences of "[conj] that it [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We reckoned that the British Army was the most professional in the world and that it had been influential in training the South African and Israeli armies who we thought took second and third place . |
| 2 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
| 3 | And that it had been dead for at least half an hour ! |
| 4 | I told her I 'd breast-fed the children on it and taught them to read by the fire on it , and that it had been wonderful as a family gathering place for many years . |
| 5 | ‘ This is what Fael-Inis wanted , ’ thought Taliesin , and knew , even as the thought formed , that Fael-Inis had not wanted it , but that it had been necessary . |
| 6 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |