Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that [noun prp] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accident happened out of sight of the public enclosures and 80,000 spectators rose to their feet in a stunned numbness when the tannoy announced that Clark was dead . |
| 2 | After the Falklands conflict , the Ministry of Defence admitted that ESM was an extremely important aid in warning of attacks . |
| 3 | First , that the referendum demonstrated that Spain was a democracy ; and , second , that the result showed that the electorate wanted Franco , the champion of anti-democracy . |
| 4 | Apart from Miss Marsh , observers of Victorian religion acknowledged that Spurgeon was , as Bishop Boyd Carpenter of Ripon wrote , ‘ a recognised power in the religious life of England ’ . |
| 5 | ( On March 25 the US State Department confirmed that Kirkuk was under Kurdish control . ) |
| 6 | And for Carl Stottor the programme confirmed that Nilsen was no longer a man to be feared . |
| 7 | Preliminary research shows that Melsonby was originally a Viking settlement and merits a mention in the eleventh century Domesday Book . |
| 8 | It was in the context of the threat these problems posed to the pre-eminence of London among international stock exchanges that Taurus was conceived . |
| 9 | This action emphasised that Jesus was a peaceful Messiah and not a military leader . |
| 10 | The Daily Echo protested that West was play-acting — he ‘ rolled over and over as though in great bodily pain ’ , then played a ‘ vigorous ’ game for the rest of the match . |
| 11 | When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died . |
| 12 | Dot knew that Gloria was sad . |
| 13 | And Dot knew that Gloria was crying . |
| 14 | The advantage was Italy 's ; unless France was involved , she would not be pulled into a conflict with Russia ; she obtained a special declaration that the treaty was not directed against England ; finally , the association proved that Italy was a great power . |
| 15 | No good to say that Strathtay was not ready for them . |
| 16 | It was the Jacobite conspiracy of February 1696 and the subsequent demand by the Junto that MPs sign an Association asserting that William was " rightful and lawful King of these realms " which most seriously undermined the bi-partisan nature of the Country platform . |
| 17 | The public enthusiasm of New York 's governor , Mario L. Cuomo , for his candidacy suggested that Kerrey was acceptable to northern liberals , while his farm state background could give him some appeal in the South , and his war record , glamour and relative youth were also seen as advantages . |
| 18 | The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented . |
| 19 | Mena says that Anna was convinced that he was coming to fetch her , and Mena swears that she was ready to go back . |
| 20 | The judge ruled that Lee was entitled to " aggravated damages " because of the " express malice " shown by the magazine and the conduct during the trial of its lawyer , Geoffrey Robertson , a British barrister . |
| 21 | Guinness II , the trial of Guinness 's merchant bankers Roger Seelig and Lord Spens on charges of fraud , collapsed when the judge ruled that Seelig was mentally ill and it would be unfair to proceed against Lord Spens alone . |
| 22 | She knew how Beth had gone to the lodging house on the night when her own father disowned her ; how she had run to her lover only to be turned away from there broken-hearted when the girl claimed that Tyler was the father of her own mythical child . |
| 23 | The Slovak parliament 's defence and security committee alleged that Meciar was registered with the security police or StB from 1985 and that he had removed incriminating evidence and promoted loyal former agents in the Slovak Interior Ministry after November 1989 . |
| 24 | Bowler felt that Minton was happiest when painting and would have been content with a quiet life had he not been driven by a need for others and by the fact that he could not bear to be on his own . |
| 25 | " Then El-ahrairah knew that Frith was too clever for him and he was frightened . |
| 26 | The unpredictable occurrence of jet in the shale beds and the cost of constructing adits against a doubtful return meant that Whitby was overtaken during the final quarter of the nineteenth century by imports from Oviedo . |
| 27 | ‘ Dana , oh , Dana , what have you got me into ? ’ she murmured to her reflection , but there was no answering twinge to say that Dana was aware of Claudia 's distress . |
| 28 | The council argues that Hazelbank was the original site of the old town hall destroyed by an IRA bomb 20 years ago , and it is the best location in the borough . |
| 29 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 30 | Iraq 's Oil Ministry claimed that Iraq was now in a position to export up to 2,000,000 bpd . |