Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next thing they got through the grapevine was that the journey was off . |
| 2 | The conclusion I drew from the chart is that , if it demonstrated that St Johann im Pongau has a better system of queue prevention than Meribel has , there is clearly something wrong with the demonstration . |
| 3 | What came as a surprise was that the secondary visual cortex contained not one further map but a number of them , at least five . |
| 4 | ‘ A particularly heartening statistic when I checked the figures before I came to the Netherlands was that this market — with a relatively small population of only 15 million inhabitants — continues to be the biggest export market for Wedgwood in Continental Europe , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The BBC would , at that stage , have had a generalist — the standard habit when I arrived in the field was that they would have a generalist producer , researcher , or somebody writing the script , cobbling together the best knowledge , whether the producer or researcher had worked on archaeology last time , flower-arranging next time , what have you after that … |
| 6 | ‘ Another strange comment I once heard from a doctor was that transsexuals were obsessed by sex , which was great news to us , especially to me , who lives like a monk . ’ |
| 7 | The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata . |
| 8 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 9 | The most significant piece of information which resulted from the study was that after a world wide search no evidence emerged that a serious outbreak of fire had occurred in a high-bay warehouse over 10 metres high . |
| 10 | All she felt as she lay in the dark was that Nicky could not satisfy her . |
| 11 | Part of the problem that we got back to when we looked over the issues is that what 's happening in the private sector is not just that it 's growing but that it 's very much in an unplanned fashion . |
| 12 | But what she forgot as she jogged on the spot was that even though time might have stood still for her , it has moved on for her 31-year-old husband Slim Jim McDonald . |
| 13 | Although she knew they were both wrong she could n't apportion blame to either of them , not yet , at any rate ; the only thing she knew at the moment was that what she had heard tied her to this house and the business as if she had signed a contract giving away her life . |
| 14 | ‘ What he liked about the play was that he enjoyed speaking it . |
| 15 | What she liked about the shop was that it was open for business on every day of the year . |
| 16 | Erm my understanding of the paper that we had for the seminar was that it discussed the nature of explanation . |
| 17 | The only problem I had with the book is that it is hinged on the premise that hardened psychopaths are capable of deep love — somehow that does n't ring true . |
| 18 | Another interest that he had in the scheme was that his clerk occupied No. 20 South Parade , which was within the area covered by the 1855 Act , and Brunel 's office and home were at No. 18 Duke Street , adjacent to the site . |
| 19 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 20 | One possibility propounded by a colleague is that there should be some kind of pay-back to the museums perhaps in the form of a levy for their help in identifying finds . |