Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I queried the decision I was told that it had been taken at the very highest level , as a result of information not available to me . ’ |
| 2 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 3 | Already involved with her longstanding boyfriend Neil Turley , Jenny declined his advances , but undaunted , fearless Frank phoned her on a regular basis and left messages with her unsuspecting boyfriend , a West Ham fan who was flattered that the team 's top scorer was training so late at night . |
| 4 | Any employee who is told that he must lose his job through no fault of his own is likely to ask , ‘ Why me ? ’ |
| 5 | She had objected , and she was suspended , Mrs Laughton herself was told that her suitability as a Panel Member would be reconsidered at the end of her term of office in May . |
| 6 | In the immediate term they 're determined that there should be no vacuum following publication of the results of the government 's stocktaking of the Scottish condition , expected later this month . |
| 7 | The formation of the Napier Debating Society has , unfortunately , progressed slowly ; however , with the changeover in Sabbatical Officers of the Napier Students Association it is hoped that the Society will be able to start a recruitment drive in Fresher 's Week of academic year 1993/94 . |
| 8 | In one scientific experiment it was found that a daily increase of log of dietary fibre , by the addition of more fruit , vegetables and wholemeal bread to an ordinary Western diet , increased the number of calories excreted in a bowel movement by nearly go . |
| 9 | In the experiment it was found that all three methods produced results that were better than random selection — but the domain specific methods were far superior to the domain-general method ( DG was 27% better than chance , the DS methods both roughly twice as good as chance ) . |
| 10 | For centuries it was ordained that , despite the evidence , everything in the Universe circled the Earth : a number of people were put to death because they happened to disagree . |
| 11 | As there was no meeting of minds to the interpretation of the Labour Court Recommendation it was agreed that both the Banks and IBOA should revert to the parties who sought the clarification of the Labour Court Recommendation i.e. Kevin Duffy of Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Turlough O'Sullivan of I.B.E.C. ( formerly FIE ) . |
| 12 | On behalf of the defendant it was argued that some limitation had to be placed on the word " practice " and the natural and proper limitation was to imply the words " as medical practitioners " . |
| 13 | To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations . |
| 14 | As a result it was held that the sellers ' right to repossess the goods did not arise until the expiry of the credit period allowed by the terms . |
| 15 | Rifle Club It was reported that the rifle club had again had a successful season and had taken part in a few Game Fairs and National Competitions . |
| 16 | Rifle Club It was reported that the rifle club had again had a successful season and had taken part in a few Game Fairs and National Competitions . |
| 17 | In a Channel 4 television programme it was alleged that whenever a major dispute comes up , it would immediately become an area for investigation . |
| 18 | But Harold was not to be soothed : he demanded retribution , he demanded action , not so much because of the ridicule but because at some stage in the programme it was alleged that he had made advantageous use of privileged or secret material in an improper fashion in relation to a book he was then about to publish . |
| 19 | As part of this programme it was considered that : |
| 20 | As a result of this openness it is known that the Secretary of State chose to modify the Mathematics Working Party 's recommendations , particularly in the area of ‘ applied mathematics ’ , that consultation revealed that most of those consulted preferred the stance that the working party had adopted , that the Curriculum Council nevertheless made recommendations which accorded with the Secretary of State 's view and that their recommendations were , not surprisingly , accepted . |
| 21 | At low levels of arousal it is assumed that attention is divided among many cues so there will potentially be some memory for all cues . |
| 22 | As a result of her lecture demonstration it is hoped that some physiotherapy patients may be recommended to attend Medau classes . |
| 23 | In one study of a small group of wrist-slashers it was found that more than half were well , or had shown improvement , 5–6 years later ( Nelson and Grunebaum 1971 ) . |
| 24 | Bedsitter accommodation was eventually provided but in the course of the investigation by the social work department it was discovered that in addition to Jim 's persistent truancy , he was also staying away from home , sleeping rough for days at a time . |
| 25 | At the end of 1989 following a meeting with Lancashire County Council Transport Department it was agreed that the minibus bringing children to Scorton School should be able to take fare-paying passengers to the A6 to connect with the bus services to Lancaster and Preston . |
| 26 | In the future it is hoped that there will be a new type of computer interface which should mimic the conventional pen and paper interface . |
| 27 | In the future it is envisaged that all three methods will be available as alternative input techniques for computers , perhaps including shorthand as a fourth . |
| 28 | You know coming from seventy to hundred a sixty five in fact when had their sales meeting last Friday it was observed that the sales force in the er which were gathered which we do every two months in the in the major suite the training suite er conference suite at head office er that was the total number of sales execs we had in January the previous year . |
| 29 | In the last part of the chapter it is prophesied that Hophni and Phinehas will both die by the sword on the same day , and that Samuel will be put in Eli 's place as God 's priest . |
| 30 | In the last chapter it was explained that some of the world 's languages are ‘ tone languages ’ , in which substituting one distinctive tone for another on a particular word or morpheme can cause a change in the dictionary ( ‘ lexical ’ ) meaning of that word or morpheme , or in some aspect of its grammatical categorisation . |