Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] that [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 2 | Moreover I do not think that it can be said that they succeed in righting the imbalance in the symbolism of Christianity . |
| 3 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 4 | As a French observer at the end of her reign pointed out , ‘ it was solely by suffering her power to be abused that she succeeded in preserving it ’ . |
| 5 | Your own son needs to be encouraged to behave in a mature way , while your stepson has to be reassured that he belongs in the new family . |
| 6 | Variations obviously occur from village to village and from area to area , so that no claim is made that what follows in this chapter applies to each and every village in England . |
| 7 | It is thought that they developed in the oceans , possibly as a result of chance combinations of atoms into large structures , called macromolecules , which were capable of assembling other atoms in the ocean into similar structures . |
| 8 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 9 | for a whole , W , to exist it is not normally enough merely that its parts exist , rather it is required that they exist in a certain arrangement , in a certain set of relations to each other . |
| 10 | Ways of getting Tony Dorigo 's mum to join the list — we are informed that she works in Brum for the computing industry 's equivalent of Leeds United , the multi-national giants Digital . |
| 11 | The court was told that she dabbled in black magic and tried summoning messages from the spirit world by using a ouija board . |
| 12 | A gentleman in Birmingham would like to make contact with an ex-member of the R A F who he served with , his name is Dennis , and it was known that he lived in West Bridgeford Nottingham . |
| 13 | Anyway , ’ he concluded morosely , ‘ it was established that he arrived in Kinghorn at the expected time . ’ |