Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , ‘ I am persuaded that a good gaoler can more easily manage his prisoners by humane attention than by severity and heavy irons ’ ( Howard 1792 : 145 ) ( writing about Maidstone County Gaol ) . |
| 2 | I am told that a modification is being worked on that will stop the engine rotating in the glide . |
| 3 | I am told that a baby is due to be born in September 1992 . |
| 4 | I am encouraged that a number of countries have promised political help . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm told that an olive tree ’ , says Mr Pattea wonderingly , ‘ will produce for 400 years . ’ |
| 6 | I was taught that a consultation in general practice can last many years . |
| 7 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 8 | I was told that a band from Levenmouth would be waiting , with a further support from the same source in three hours . |
| 9 | I was informed that a group of young teachers at one college were planning a boycott on the day to protests against their poor living conditions and low pay . |
| 10 | After three letters and two telephone calls , I was informed that a ‘ sewing machine ’ is ‘ household goods ’ not a ‘ personal possession ’ and therefore not covered . |
| 11 | Need it be a matter of wonder , when we see her capable of such restraint in general , that she should retire within herself and exercise that control we find her continually exerting over all her thoughts and actions the more energetically at a time when she is taught that a stray thought of desire would be impurity and its fruition pollution . |
| 12 | She was told that a colleague from the bank would be around later to pick up her card and he even rang back later to check if he had been . |
| 13 | Not only can we point to the success of such a tax abroad , but at no stage in recent negotiations or since have we been told that a local income tax would not work . |
| 14 | ‘ The president 's office is keeping a silence on this one , although we are assured that a statement is being prepared . |
| 15 | Time and again we are told that a kingdom was divided equally . |
| 16 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 17 | We were told that a previously logged area was burning , the humus-rich soil being deliberately set alight to free the nutrients in the soil for subsequent cultivation , and that the blaze was the size of Singapore . |
| 18 | Finally we were told that a team had been formed but that it contained no skilful players , we remained sceptical ! |
| 19 | People who were incredibly enthusiastic at first dropped out because they thought the language barrier would be a major problem , even though they were assured that an English-speaking teacher would accompany the children . |
| 20 | On the return train journey to Sunderland , they were told that a group of journalists were waiting at Sunderland station , forcing the two players to decamp at Durham and sneak home via the back door . |
| 21 | One day they were told that a police officer wished to see them in connection with the charges already preferred . |
| 22 | Miss Logan lost count of the times their luggage was detained , or they were told that a buyurulda or special permit would be necessary in addition to the tezkare they had already procured ; but Miss Fergusson , with assistance from a dragoman whose own brief display of independent thought had been snuffed out early on , harried , demanded and succeeded . |
| 23 | The United States began consultations with friendly powers in October letting it be understood that a UN temporary commission would be proposed , charged with supervising elections and reporting back to the UN Security Council and General Assembly at Lake Success . |
| 24 | Not until James VI of Scotland became James I of England at a ceremony in Westminster Abbey could it be said that a truly Scottish monarch had once more been ritually crowned upon the Stone of Destiny . |
| 25 | Neither can it be assumed that a wife who is denied sexual autonomy will cease cohabitation . |
| 26 | On the fringe of the political scene , the Daily Mail campaigned vigorously for a coalition under a new leader and various important figures in the City of London let it be known that a Socialist Government would be a financial disaster . |
| 27 | If both these exclusions were accepted , the throne was Philip 's , if it were allowed that a woman could transmit a right but not exercise it , the throne was Edward 's . |
| 28 | Burglary — where it 's reckoned that a only tiny proportion are ever caught — nets £590 million . |
| 29 | In a case brought by the RSPCA , it 's alleged that a horse was repeatedly beaten with a whip after it became stuck on a high gate . |
| 30 | It 's thought that a comet colliding with the earth may have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs . |