Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] that the [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 30 January - 3 February 1768 ) Leopold went on to report that the Emperor had in fact suggested that Mozart write an opera : |
| 2 | It goes on to state that the cell had no electricity and no floor covering , the prisoners were allowed few clothes and they received only two meals a day , one consisting of a single very small momo ( steamed bun ) and the other of a small cup of wormy vegetables . |
| 3 | Two days later they phoned up to confirm that the cheque had arrived and congratulated me . |
| 4 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 5 | She remembered her younger daughter , aged eleven , was still in bed in the caravan and ran out to discover that the child had been wakened and dressed by social workers , and was already in their car . |
| 6 | Mrs Nutt submitted that it would be difficult , if not impossible , for the appellant to try and set about to prove that the co-defendant had not committed an act of gross indecency with him , that he was in effect deprived of any opportunity of cross-examining or otherwise challenging the co-defendant and that to admit the evidence would be simply to render the proceedings against the appellant wholly unfair . |
| 7 | Vaisey J went on to say that the employers had shown " the utmost carelessness in allowing this defendant to get knowledge of what they knew was a very valuable secret … |
| 8 | Graham J found that such information was not readily available and went on to say that the information had been obtained as a result of considerable labour and expense on the part of the plaintiffs and was therefore valuable and , it followed , confidential . |
| 9 | This meant that , once the prosecution had established the use of force , it had to go on to prove that the victim had ‘ resisted to the utmost from the inception to the close of the attack . ’ |