Example sentences of "[verb] that [ex0] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that there was a secluded roof on her house where she was wont to sunbathe totally naked . |
| 2 | There is no point denying that there was a ‘ free fight ’ in Bean Street between the Powers ' and Jenkins ' families , with men rolling on the ground . |
| 3 | The other ( modern ) extreme , that of denying that there was such a thing as Carthaginian imperialism , is equally unsatisfying : from Plato onwards , Greeks spoke of Carthaginian eparcheia , a compound of arche = rule or empire , in Sicily ; and ( he Carthaginians imposed tribute , phoros , on Greek cities which fell into their power ( e.g. Diod. xiii.59 : Selinus ) . |
| 4 | There was also a bit about Lesley Silver denying that there was a link between Battys sale and a 2.5M offer to buy back Elland Road from the council . |
| 5 | When calculated on an appropriate pollen sum , they suggest that there was never any extensive , continuous forest cover . |
| 6 | While there are , of course , many recent causes célèbres of police abuse ( Reiner , 1985 , ch. 2. 2 ) , memoirs of earlier times ( e.g. Mark , 1978 ; Daley , 1986 ) suggest that there was an enormous extent of subterranean wrong-doing in the cosy days of the traditional bobby on the beat . |
| 7 | These figures suggest that there was also some degree of undervaluation of exports and imports in terms of dinars in previous years , although the amount may well have varied with the rate of depreciation of the dinar . |
| 8 | Wilkins 's survival as warden of Wadham , his move to the mastership of Trinity College Cambridge in 1659 , his becoming bishop of Chester in 1668 , and his appointment as Lent preacher to the king suggest that there was nothing particularly hazardous in being England 's most conspicuous Copernican . |
| 9 | A clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia was applied to 45 per cent of those classified within the broad ‘ S ’ CATEGO class , and although fewer Asians received the diagnosis of schizophrenia , the authors suggest that there was no significant relationship between ethnicity and diagnosis . |
| 10 | I am aware of the article to which my hon. Friend refers , which involves a case that was tried in Israel , and of the fact that , apparently , KGB records recently made available in Moscow suggest that there was mistaken identification . |
| 11 | Neither of these relatively crude measures suggest that there was any correlation of degree or duration of oesophageal distention with triggering of transient UOS relaxations . |
| 12 | Although both these samples suggest that there was a decline until well into the fifteenth century , followed by a recovery , there are two further points which need to be taken into consideration . |
| 13 | But it is also true that Rolle was in the habit of reworking old material with variations in different works and that the manuscript ascriptions to him suggest that there was no discomfort in seeing the Meditations as part of the Rolle canon in the late medieval period . |
| 14 | Lake sediment records in Ecuador suggest that there was regional flooding of western Amazonia 1300–800 BP , i.e. major hydrological disturbance , which raised the water level as far east as Manaus , while savanna regions seem to have persisted on the northern edge of the basin throughout the late Quaternary . |
| 15 | Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this . |
| 16 | Katz and Fodor [ 1963 ] proposed that there was a universal set of markers that could represent the meaning of words from every possible language . |
| 17 | And did you know that there was an Isle of Wight Pearl Centre ? |
| 18 | Initially she went right back to the age of four and , although she could not tell me what year it was , she did know that there was a queen called Victoria . |
| 19 | I do not know whether she went on to have a family — but I do know that there was now nothing to prevent her doing so . |
| 20 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 21 | I suggest that Converse might be interested in their star logo , a kind of Captain America hangover , but it might be worse … they do know that there was a '50s band called Eugenius , who cut two LPs for RCA ? |
| 22 | We went to breakfast and Mark Cox was sitting there and he asked us ‘ Did n't we know that there was coup in Russia ? ’ and he told us everything . |
| 23 | How do we know that there was an original crime of parricide ? |
| 24 | But how did you know that there was n't some big secret , some big , evil deal going down that involves you but had been kept secret from you ? |
| 25 | Members will know that there was a locomotive called ‘ Bishop 's Castle ’ owned by the BCR before the advent of Carlisle and No. 1 . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend will know that there was a real-terms increase in the science and technology budget this year , a point that has been readily acknowledged by scientists up and down the country . |
| 27 | Churchill commented that the " British people would not easily be influenced by what happened in the distant jungles of South-East Asia ; but they did know that there was a powerful American base in East Anglia and that war with China , who would invoke the Sino-Russian Pact , might mean an assault by hydrogen bombs on these islands " . |
| 28 | The rules which apply to such cases and can be derived from the cases are summed up in Chitty on Contracts as follows : ( 1 ) If the person receiving the document did not know that there was writing or printing on it , he is not bound . |
| 29 | Momoh visited China on June 6-11 , 1990 , reaffirming that there was no intention to establish diplomatic links with Taiwan . |
| 30 | Rebecca ( or ‘ Becky ’ as everyone calls her ) picked up the plane and , noticing that there was writing on it , slowly unfolded it . |