Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iraq denied that the cylinders were part of a gun and maintained that they were for use in the petrochemical industry . |
| 2 | Cody maintained that it was in tension and had provided a wire . |
| 3 | She once joked that we were like ships that passed in the night . ’ |
| 4 | The second lieutenant disappeared inside the main building intending to call on the Commander-in-Chief — without an appointment needless to say — but realized that he was in difficulties . |
| 5 | If only they realized that she was under strain . |
| 6 | They had arrived back at her hotel , however , before Fabia realised that they were at cross purposes about why she should want to return to her hotel so early . |
| 7 | The authors argue that newborn screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy decreases emotional distress because it avoids delays in diagnosing the disease , and without newborn screening two or more boys could be born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy before parents realised that they were at risk of having an affected child . |
| 8 | To his own distress , he realised that he was in danger of abandoning his self reliance , and making a friend of Merymose . |
| 9 | But , as tears pricked the back of Fabia 's eyes , she realised that she was in danger of becoming over-emotional — which would be of no help just now to Cara . |
| 10 | I realised that I was in danger of being fooled by the maps . |
| 11 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 12 | ‘ The morning after he admitted that he was in love with another woman , I lay on our bed as if suspended in space . |
| 13 | Rather than dreaming primarily being psychologically necessary — a response dealing with occasional neurotic erotic impulses during sleep — they argued that it is in fact the outcome of an automatic , pre-programmed neural process . |
| 14 | So by 1 March Fleischmann and Pons believed that they were on course to getting immediate confirmation of the neutron energy spectrum from Harwell independent of Jones , whom they were increasingly viewing as an unwanted competitor . |
| 15 | ERC noted that it was on target with its 1991 budget . |
| 16 | He recalled that it was on tour in South Africa that they were christened the Pumas . |
| 17 | He was picking the letter up when he noticed that it was in Elinor 's own handwriting . |
| 18 | The suspect also has the right to have one person informed that he is in custody . |
| 19 | He stated that he was in favour of Quebec remaining as part of Canada under the principle of " 10 equal provinces " , i.e. without " distinct society " provisions . |
| 20 | She stated that she was in Cross Street near the Oliver 's shop at about 6.10pm . |
| 21 | Similarly , when they exchanged the names of their schools , she found herself immensely relieved when he declared that he was at Winchester , for she had heard of Winchester , she knew something about Winchester , she did not have to feign a non-existent knowledge of Winchester . |
| 22 | The budget was also criticized by Lu Ping , the head of China 's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office , who claimed that it was in contravention of Hong Kong 's post-1997 Basic Law , which stipulated that government spending should be kept within the limits of the revenue it raised . |
| 23 | Later research showed that they were in fact storehouses and workshops , attached to hut-dwelling communities during the first and second centuries AD : quernstones were found in such a cellar at Barns of Airlie , and a chamber in a Carlungie souterrain seems to have been used for both stone and metal working . |
| 24 | By the end of 1982 , Crocker 's quarterly figures showed that it was in trouble . |
| 25 | A review carried out last year showed that there was in increase in the number of inshore fishing vessels seeking assistance , and modern navigational equipment and greater speed may be tempting this type of vessel further offshore than is sometimes prudent . |
| 26 | The Priština committee of the Party issued a statement which described the organizers of this petition as ‘ nationalists , chauvinists , and fascists ’ , and alleged that they were in contact with ‘ hostile elements ’ in Belgrade . |
| 27 | What he did find , to his surprise , was that some of the doubles moved in a way which indicated that they were in orbit round the ‘ balancing point ’ or common centre of gravity of the system . |
| 28 | Up to about twenty years ago , it was thought that protons and neutrons were " elementary " particles , but experiments in which protons were collided with other protons or electrons at high speeds indicated that they were in fact made up of smaller particles . |
| 29 | Mr Brandreth tells me : ‘ I discovered that we were at Oxford when an American reporter rang me some months ago to ask about him . |
| 30 | A widow had the shock of her life when she opened a letter from her local council and discovered that she was in arrears with her rent . |