Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eventually Ubaldo became convinced that someone in the family circle was supplying the gang with information on a day-to-day basis . |
| 32 | Detectives hunting the murderer of an old age pensioner say they 're convinced that someone in his tiny village community is shielding whoever is responsible . |
| 33 | The prison has to be convinced that none of its inmates are a danger to the public , but last week Trevor Hanson , a convicted rapist there allegedly attacked a woman while on home leave from Leyhill . |
| 34 | Soon after , she said wistfully : ‘ I am just very , very sad that someone with such ability is not able to serve his country in the way he can do best . ’ |
| 35 | Francesca herself had characteristically taken the line that the Foreign Office ought to have been glad that someone on the staff was that closely involved with the American political Establishment . |
| 36 | The editor , a nervous man always conscious that none of his immediate predecessors had lasted more than two years in the job , held his readers ' adoration of royalty as an article of faith . |
| 37 | That 's not literary opinion , that 's a fact , and is n't in , incredible that something like that did n't shake some foundations , not a bit of it . |
| 38 | It was only natural that anyone with a garage and mechanical knowhow would be tempted during the heady days of the Flea ‘ craze ’ to ‘ have a go ’ . |
| 39 | But on the contrary , this world of ‘ it was rumoured ’ and ‘ that may well have been so ’ followed at once by ‘ it is more likely that nothing of the sort happened ’ — again in the opening paragraphs — is as exhilarating as the challenge of life 's opacities to a healthy curiosity . |
| 40 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
| 41 | This is an altogether more simple reading of the section , and would apply where the policeman comes across a person who is using abusive language , and comes to the conclusion that it is likely that somebody in the audience will intervene to put a stop to it , using unlawful violence ( citizens may have the power to prevent a breach of the peace , but not to preserve the public quiet ) . |
| 42 | Almost a quarter ( 22 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 and 23 per cent aged 75 + ) consider that it is very likely that someone of their age will develop a serious illness over the next ten years . |
| 43 | Good heavens , is it really likely that someone like you could catch a man rich enough to own a house like this ? |
| 44 | And , at 10 minutes per page for a 24-pin dot matrix printer it 's likely that anything over one copy is going to be treated in this way . |
| 45 | MI5 agreed to give what help was necessary so it is fairly obvious that none of the security services took Eden 's directive seriously . |
| 46 | The murmur of amusement that ran round the gathering made it obvious that none of the women present saw this as a hardship . |
| 47 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 48 | An oft quoted tenet that it is inevitable that someone with FAP will develop a bowel cancer , is also disproved by this study . |
| 49 | ‘ It is horrifying that anyone in transit can find their way on to an aircraft undetected . |
| 50 | Warning : when working on the soil stack , make sure that no-one inside the house empties a basin or flushes the WC . |
| 51 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |
| 52 | He remembered the dream where he had been riding north with Jinneth into the mountains , and he was sure that something of that figure had been Jenny . |
| 53 | Is it Friend ? thought Chesarynth , sure that something about him would give himself away . |
| 54 | Ace ducked , certain that Defries would land on top of her and then equally sure that nothing of the sort was about to happen . |
| 55 | The ‘ doomsters ’ would have been discredited , and you can be sure that plenty of people would have pointed this out forcefully . |
| 56 | Wherever they are make sure that plenty of well-rotted manure is worked into the ground . |
| 57 | Merisel Inc has found that it 's easier to rush a catalogue out than to make sure that everything in it is correct , and in a series of schoolboy howlers in the current edition , the name of Conner Peripherals Inc is misspelled , many of its hard disks are described as floppies — and their access times of between 19ms to 1ms are rendered as 19Microsoft to 12Microsoft . |
| 58 | And that is why we are now taking this direct route of saying , that policy and resources , as the policy making body of this council , should have some input to make sure that we in the planning committee are not the situation on a planning application when instead we deal with the moral issue of turning away people who need homes . |
| 59 | As a result they were often not employed and , even if they were , there was a widespread superstition that the Catholic church made sure that one in twenty ( or was it ten ? ) was faulty , as a sort of divine vengeance . |
| 60 | So what what they 're actually saying is that here is a formal training that will make sure that everybody at the , who goes on this course , comes away with a measure of having achieved those skills because th the course itself is formed of two parts . |