Example sentences of "[that] [noun] [verb] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs , and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence . |
| 2 | A UEFA spokesman explained : ‘ The referee presented his match report which stated that money had been offered to both him and his officials . |
| 3 | A UEFA spokesman explained : ‘ The referee presented his match report which stated that money had been offered to both him and his officials . |
| 4 | It was widely believed that Churchill had been converted to the European cause during the war , and that he had kept the flame of union alight . |
| 5 | Programme makers discovered that guidelines have been isued to local authorities on what do in the event of a nuclear accident . |
| 6 | It is easy to understand how irksome that condition has been felt to be and how strong has been the temptation to try to tamper with it . |
| 7 | It is quite true that Corbett has been applied to situations outside marriage , eg. , the alteration of birth certificates , unfair dismissal ( White v. |
| 8 | The academic point that the proposed increase did not , in fact , make good the shortfall that beneficiaries suffered is left to one side . |
| 9 | As soon as they knew that Bella had been assigned to her , the other two trainees cornered Marie in the canteen and briefed her on what to expect . |
| 10 | The final position , therefore , was that Wilfrid had been restored to York and had regained control of Ripon . |
| 11 | This makes it clear that certification , like a share certificate , is not a representation that the transferor has title to the shares but is a representation that certificates have been produced to the company showing a prima facie title and that the company will be liable to compensate any person who acts on the faith of it , provided that it was issued by someone authorised by the company to issue certified transfer and was signed by someone authorised to sign . |
| 12 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 13 | It was the first time that Ethel had been summoned to her form-mistress for any reason other than praise . |
| 14 | Gervase of Canterbury tells us that Edward objected especially to Henry 's renunciation of his rights to Normandy and to the infeudation of Gascony : although Edward had agreed to its terms by 25 July 1259 , he was to change his mind in 1260 and allege that Normandy had been sold to the French . |
| 15 | Her husband and son say that cleaners had been left to hand out meals to patients . |
| 16 | There was at an early stage evidence that D. had been subjected to violent injury . |
| 17 | Given the fact that another property developer , and star of the bull market of the Nineties Mountleigh , had gone into receivership and that administrators have been appointed to the Canary Wharf project it could rank as one of the understatements of the 1992 financial year . |
| 18 | I thought every breath that cat took was going to be her last . ’ |
| 19 | On Sept. 1 , Yeltsin and Snegur expressed their satisfaction that peace had been restored to the Dnestr region . |
| 20 | On March 5 India 's Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) filed a First Information Report ( FIR ) in a New Delhi court in connection with allegations that commissions had been paid to Indian middlemen during the government 's purchase of submarines from a West German company , Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft ( HDW ) , in the early 1980s . |
| 21 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 22 | The south west Regional Health Authority said in a statement that cash has been paid to chemists in some areas to encourage new outlets for needle exchange . |
| 23 | The fact that gendarmes have been introduced to an Oxford school is a measure of how seriously schools in Oxfordshire are taking European road safety week . |
| 24 | It is perhaps in recognition of the awkward position of English law that exceptions have been made to the marital-rape exemption in recent years . |
| 25 | So to limit the interpretation of the word would follow the principle that words in a statute which have , or can have , a general meaning may have to be given a specialised and narrower meaning in order to make sense of the legislation and to avoid the conclusion that changes have been made to the existing law which can not have been intended by Parliament . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , considering that Siban has been ordered to Kinsai , I think the Kha-Khan might be indicating a preference , do n't you ? ’ |
| 27 | We know that Monotypes had been introduced to R. & R. Clark 's , as early as 1901 or 1902 . |
| 28 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 29 | One finds direct contradictions such as Lewis 's ( 1931 ) observation that an 8 km/h ( 5 mile/h ) current off Hurst Castle Spit was ineffective in moving the lightest shell debris except when combined with wave action and Russell and Macmillan 's ( 1952 ) belief that shingle has been scoured to a depth of nearly 60 m ( 200 ft ) by this same current . |
| 30 | It has not listened on a whole series of points , even though I am very grateful that amendments have been agreed to in the course of our debate this evening . |