Example sentences of "and [vb past] [that] [pron] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One five-year-old , for instance , when asked to make one pile so it was tiv , picked up one coin from it , placed it between the two piles , and announced that it was tiv . |
| 2 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 3 | Joshi and Owen ( 1981 , pp. 106–7 ) studied the labour force participation of successive cohorts of women in Britain from 1950 to 1974 and found that it was motherhood , rather than marriage , which determined the length of women 's lives in paid work with Ms Average withdrawing from the labour market for seven years . |
| 4 | Cassie picked it up and found that it was silk , with a bodice of handmade lace ; beautiful and expensive . |
| 5 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 6 | While I was on holiday the clinic tested a blood sample without my permission and established that it was HIV positive . |
| 7 | Breeze turned to glance at the man who had just entered the shop , and saw that it was Roger Kenyon . |
| 8 | She snatched a quick glance backward and saw that it was Meredith Wyatt , grinning like a death's-head . |
| 9 | I checked my watch and saw that it was Thursday . |
| 10 | Somewhere outside Burun heard the high-pitched cry of a boy , and knew that it was Jehan . |
| 11 | She tasted blood and thought that it was Ryker 's , but then realized that her own face was gashed just below the left eye , she guessed by flying glass . |
| 12 | Earlier , Sharon Freda McLean denied killing Linda McMullen and said that it was co-defendant Lisa Burgess who started to kick and stamp on her in the Wrexham Peace Gardens . |
| 13 | Finally , after he had given them a pledge supported by the oaths of Danish leaders , they completely rejected Edmund 's brothers and sons and denied that they were kings . |