Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The House of Lords held that it was of merchantable quality because it was saleable without any substantial reduction of the price . |
| 32 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 33 | But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death . |
| 34 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 35 | She was convinced that he was in reality quite fond of them both . |
| 36 | She noticed this peculiar fish and although she was not a fish specialist , she became convinced that it was of great importance . |
| 37 | Apparently convinced that I was behind the ABC and NBC stories and the media follow-up around the world , they blew my cover in a television broadcast that also went out around the world . |
| 38 | Saved you there , Lexy ! ’ he exclaimed to himself , forgetful that he was on an open channel . |
| 39 | I could hear the rain tapping on my window and I felt very glad that I was in my dry , warm bed . |
| 40 | Charles put up all the arguments scepticism could muster , but somehow ended up agreeing with Jacqui that it was at least worth further investigation . |
| 41 | Moreover , MDC 's relatively modest housing programme for the initial area , its mixture of public and private provision and the fact that it has not displaced existing residents prevented housing becoming the political minefield for MDC that it was for LDDC . |
| 42 | I was lucky that she was in most of my lessons but the lessons that she was n't in I would sit with the other friends from Stonham Aspel . |
| 43 | It is not likely that it was at once allowed to develop in complete freedom , when that was a characteristic foreign to the Roman legal tradition . |
| 44 | Their date is unsure , perhaps around the mid sixth century , and it seems likely that it was near that time that Greek sculptors did learn to hollow-cast bronze on a large scale . |
| 45 | Among the hero 's many adventures the twelve labours imposed by Eurystheus are only listed later ; but the regular list corresponds to the choice here and it is likely that it was in fact these twelve carvings at the heart of Greece 's greatest sanctuary that determined the canon . |
| 46 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 47 | Then it became obvious that she was in trouble . |
| 48 | Anthony , recognizing incompetence , grasped Dalgliesh 's hair firmly with a sticky hand and he felt the momentary touch of a cheek , so soft that it was like the fall of a petal . |
| 49 | John Hutt , Governor of Western Australia , was thrilled that it was to be an Englishman who was to dispel the mists of ornithological obscurity from the continent . |
| 50 | To people who do eat pork , the Sulawesi warty pig is so good that it was worth domesticating , and it is the only pig besides the Eurasian wild boar to have become part of the human farmyard . |
| 51 | I blinked twice , not sure that I was in the right country . |
| 52 | He was sure that it was at Aros . |
| 53 | But in the end , I am sure that it was with the public at large that his influence counted most . |
| 54 | ‘ I 'm sure that it was after two and before half-past , but I ca n't get closer than that . ’ |
| 55 | Brenda , sure that she was in the right , held out — and was , indeed , banned . |
| 56 | On the platform she was not at all sure that she was in the right place . |
| 57 | But she could not see all the way , it was feasible that he was on a lower flight and she would come face to face with him . |
| 58 | 5 That he was against the Commune . |
| 59 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 60 | It was plain that he was in no hurry to execute it . |