Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I honestly thought she loved me so much that she 'd been prepared to get herself pregnant to trick me into marriage . |
| 2 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 3 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 4 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 5 | Was n't it enough that he had been so humiliated ? |
| 6 | However , the ultimate aim of the legislation — to shed labour and alter workers ' consciousness so that they accept being sacked — remains the same . |
| 7 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 8 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 9 | After evidence had been led for the prosecution counsel for the defendant submitted that there was no case to answer on the theft charges because the manager of the shop had authorised the transactions , so that there had been no appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Act . |
| 10 | ( 1973 ) have also shown that urban containment policies have resulted in higher house prices as a result of the higher price of land , so that there has been a fall in the quality of new first-home , owner-occupier dwellings in town and country . |
| 11 | For the sake of the argument we must assume that the space covered by the arch is proportional to the benefits , so that there has been some purpose in making the arch as broad as possible . |
| 12 | So that there has been a major breakthrough in the appreciation of English music , but it 's not quite , it 's still on the periphery , I think , of erm music as far as the Germans , the French and the Italians are concerned . |
| 13 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 14 | So that he get 's a treat . |
| 15 | You 've extended courtesy , patience , and fair-mindedness to all , so that you 've been a tribute to the enquiry process if I may say so . |
| 16 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 17 | so that I thought was a nice tale |
| 18 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 19 | Human language is much more powerful — so much so that it has been suggested that the ability to speak is what really distinguishes people from animals . |
| 20 | It may be possible to distract a horse in some other way than in giving it food , so that it tolerates being shod . |
| 21 | The problem with this is not merely that there has been very little serious thinking within multiculturalism about how ‘ cultural understanding ’ actually occurs , about its forms , mechanisms and limits . |
| 22 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 23 | They have forgotten who they are , knowing only that they have been trapped by an evil enchanter . |
| 24 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 25 | ‘ Only that he 'd been abroad . |
| 26 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 27 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 28 | Police refused to confirm how many people had been arrested , saying only that there had been a number of arrests for public order offences . |
| 29 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 30 | ’ Only that someone said is n't it luck for Gharr that he could just about pass as an Ardakkean if he dyed his hair … ’ |