Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 2 | At a Conservative party meeting on 28 August , Amery noted that Horne ‘ on the whole agrees with me that we have got into a considerable mess and that the great thing is to extricate our people as soon as possible , ’ while Hailsham in his speech ‘ supported entirely what had been done but trusted that it would not last longer than two months — whereat loud cheers ’ . |
| 3 | I do n't suppose these efforts influenced the election in the slightest , but on the Friday we learned that Mr. Morrison had been re-elected and felt that we had done our part in ensuring his success . |
| 4 | The South African National Maize Producers ' Organization said that at least three-quarters of the harvest had been destroyed and expected that up to 3,500,000 tonnes would have to be imported . |
| 5 | Despite being very close to an agreement with NALGO it was disappointing for the Special Finance Committee held on the 7 October 1992 to learn that the latest package offer had been rejected and to find that a number of employees had taken industrial action to lobby the meeting . |
| 6 | At the end of the 11th round on Aug. 7 , Burt admitted that " no major achievements ' had been made but claimed that there had been " solid progress ' on all issues except those relating to space weapons on which the sides remained " too far apart " . |
| 7 | He noticed that the cassette-player had been moved and saw that she 'd removed the tape . |
| 8 | Reg and I were most vitriolic about the risk to which we had been exposed and hoped that the Germans would be just as inefficient . ’ |
| 9 | The American replied that he was glad to find that botanical taste had been inherited and reported that a pear tree , grown from a seed sent to him by Lady Petre , had produced the finest fruits in Pennsylvania . |
| 10 | She had been crying and said that she had been ‘ feeling awful ’ all day . |
| 11 | TRACE II , like Hearsay-II had no guarantee that the correct weights had been chosen but found that the behaviour of the system was very robust under parameter variations . |
| 12 | Earlier this year , however , the state minister for primary industries , Dr Kang Yaik , had been reported as saying that there had been a " phenomenal " increase in production and that there was no need to for reductions because " exploitation is carried out very properly on a sustainable yield basis " . |
| 13 | Two weeks earlier , on March 15 , Mehrdad Kowkabi , an Iranian student held in the UK for 15 months , had been deported after a court dropped charges of arson against him , and Iranian officials had been quoted as saying that the government might respond to this " positive step " by releasing Cooper . |
| 14 | On June 11 Zaki had been quoted as saying that Pakistan " feels vulnerable " to India 's long-range missiles . |
| 15 | On Jan. 17 Defence Minister Sharad Pawar had been quoted as saying that Indo-US relations were moving towards greater " openness " . |
| 16 | On Oct. 13 the Russian Defence Minister , Marshal Pavel Grachev , had been quoted as saying that Russia 's moratorium " can not remain in force forever " and that he would shortly propose the limited resumption of nuclear testing at Russia 's test base on the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya . |