Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most recent historians would agree that the Hammonds were much too reluctant to accept that there was even serious talk of revolution , although the majority do not go so far as Thompson in their assessment of the seriousness of the threat . |
| 2 | Gertrude Joyce , at least , found it hard to accept that she was a foreigner in the town where she had been born and she had lived until she was over twenty-five years old . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , I had to accept that she was probably not consciously aware of the true nature of her feelings . |
| 4 | The android appeared to accept that she was n't his target . |
| 5 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 6 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 7 | However , as he had continued to see her , monopolising every free moment of her time , she had slowly come to accept that he was indeed ‘ interested ’ . |
| 8 | She was here , in her father 's empire , because he for once in his life had been forced to accept that he was just as weak and vulnerable as any other human being . |
| 9 | I listened to others ' crises but did n't want to accept that I was in the middle of my own . |
| 10 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 11 | Nicholson appeared to accept that it was possible , but no special relationship was formed between them . |
| 12 | ‘ Five minutes — as long as it took to accept that it was a fact of life and then find my lawyer 's phone number . ' ’ |
| 13 | The combination of this group of activists with either the residents or the workers was likely to raise questions on the continued operation of the factory , rather than demands for it to be operated safely , as the activists refused to accept that it was possible to work safely with asbestos or other toxic substances , following their similar rebuttal of threshold limits for exposure to radiation in the anti-nuclear movement . |
| 14 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 15 | Simultaneously , Boardrooms across the USA began to accept that it was not always possible or desirable to rely entirely upon home-grown talent , and that managers and executives could be interchangeable between apparently quite different types of business . |
| 16 | He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing . |
| 17 | The whole jape took on a rather serious complexion when the police refused to accept that it was all a joke . |
| 18 | Erm Mr Donson seemed to accept that it was er right for local planning authorities through their district wide open plans to give effect to policies in P P G seven for protecting the countryside for its own sake and he er mentioned landscape policies and then development minutes amongst other things . |
| 19 | Almost identical , if you had not been brought up by Victorine to know that one was good and the other bad : both had wide shop windows displaying shelves of apple tarts , turnovers , puffs ; striped awnings above ; tiled steps . |
| 20 | Pound knew enough of his own gifts , and of the protracted strenuousness of his apprenticeship , to know that what was safe for him was not safely available to others , least of all to those he called ‘ the neophyte ’ . |
| 21 | Much as she loved Nora , she was sufficiently realistic about her cousin to know that whatever was beginning to develop in her niece would be much more likely to come to something if Constance remained with her in Surrey than if she returned to the north . |
| 22 | You might be interested to know that there was considerable narrowing of the arteries , which could have produced spells of dizziness . ’ |
| 23 | She told me that she was relieved to know that there was a reason for it , even if the root cause had occurred so long ago . |
| 24 | But Dalgliesh had n't needed his private source of department gossip to know that there was nothing of this limp subservience about Paul Berowne . |
| 25 | A quick glance between Rose and the girls was enough for them to know that it was better to make no mention of their elder brother . |
| 26 | NAM 's Public Relations Officer , Howard Heeley , said that while the Museum were sorry to see the Mk 4 go , it was more than pleasing to know that it was intended to fly it again . |
| 27 | It could not be done on this day and at this spot but he had heard and seen enough of the bouldery , rocky , unstable earth treachery of the district to know that it was possible . |
| 28 | She could n't see much of it because the thrust stage ran onward out of sight … but you did n't have to down the entire egg to know that it was rotten . |
| 29 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 30 | BCRS members of all people will understand something of the geography and communications of the area , and will , I am sure , be interested to know that it was to the Stone House that our Secretary was taken after his recent heart attack . ) |