Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That patience must have been well-schooled here , and I would need lots of it myself if I was to follow her tracks from card to cryptic card through all the boxes . |
| 2 | It followed that the Court of Appeal could not substitute a term of three years ' detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , despite the fact that that sentence would have been available to the sentencer in the Crown Court , as there was an effective sentence in place . |
| 3 | It is interesting that the Bank of Ireland spokesman who gave that figure should have been specific , as members will be aware that many figures have been rumoured over the past couple of months . |
| 4 | That run/shot would have been impossible from anywhere BUT the centre of the pitch ( he would have been running across goal and also towards defenders . |
| 5 | Frere 's thanksgiving for his wife 's recovery was heartfelt , for that loss would have been irreparable ; and his rejoicing at her return was genuine enough ; but how short-lived . |
| 6 | ‘ Without Beuno , ’ she observed , ‘ that evening would have been impossible . |
| 7 | That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends . |
| 8 | Limerick being warned not to drink their tapwater , as local authority officials worried that cyanide might have been involved in the spillage . |
| 9 | " You would think anyone in that state would have been clever enough , sensible enough , to get out of line . " |
| 10 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 11 | That recipe may have been appropriate in the past when personal consumption was largely met from the output of labour-intensive British industries . |
| 12 | ( The fact that a huge lorry was passing by at that time must have been coincidental , I 'm sure . ) |