Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it had been widely reported that he had made a full confession during pre-trial questioning , in court Watanabe maintained that " there is no truth " in the reports that he had paid politicians . |
| 2 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 3 | Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders . |
| 4 | In fact , these two warts are so enlarged that they look like long swellings behind the animal 's eyes , covered with pores through which the poison seeps . |
| 5 | ‘ I hope you are so humiliated that you commit suicide . ’ |
| 6 | Some people have average abilities , but are so driven that they get their way . |
| 7 | Artificial languages have been constructed for which it is possible to ascribe unique , non-zero probabilities to generalizations , but the languages are so restricted that they contain no universal generalizations . |
| 8 | I am greatly touched that she thinks of me and remembers me even in the state of forgetfulness of human affairs in which she now finds herself . |
| 9 | So we 're definitely agreed that we ask the Town Clerk to make those two contacts and to put it on the agenda for the Planning Committee ? |
| 10 | In the United States it has been clearly demonstrated that they do . |
| 11 | The idea has been carefully propagated that they lead a ‘ middle-class ’ way of life . |
| 12 | When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge . |
| 13 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 14 | Parkers need to be clearly warned that they park their vehicles entirely at their own risk . |
| 15 | And , or else he 'd be severely injured that he 's got the , the family rest of their life having to look after him and and could kill somebody . |
| 16 | To be summarily told that he has now dropped in the county pecking-order , that he can not expect to graduate to the captaincy , came as a shock . |
| 17 | He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ . |
| 18 | To begin with , young girls and women are frequently told that they talk too much , that they make facile use of words , that they chatter idly . |
| 19 | Ive been reliably informed that we have drawn SUNDERLAND in the 2nd round of this years littlewoods cup . |
| 20 | The Library Association took legal advice on whether they could take action , but were apparently advised that they did not have the ‘ locus ’ to intervene in this way . |
| 21 | Consequently , after Frederick 's burial , some of his followers were so devastated that they committed suicide . |
| 22 | Bacon and Bungay were so exhausted that they set their servant , Miles , to watch it whilst they were asleep , under the instruction that they should be woken if the head started speaking . |
| 23 | Sir James Graham of Netherby Hall rebuilt the trap and the Scots were so enraged that they gathered a small army of local people and set out to tear it down . |
| 24 | If proof were ever needed that I had a gift for spotting talent then my signing of Royston Marley was it . |
| 25 | ‘ You were probably told that she died of a heart attack — but she did n't . |
| 26 | Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted . |
| 27 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 28 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 29 | But if the entire building is so damaged that it has to be torn down and rebuilt , the landlord collects from his insurer to rebuild . |
| 30 | After Mrs Wordingham 's death later in 1989 , Mr Wordingham applied to the High Court for rectification of the will under s 20(1) ( a ) of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , which states that ‘ if the court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator 's intentions , in consequence — ( a ) of a clerical error … it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions … ‘ . |