Example sentences of "that a [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn . |
| 2 | Lord declares that he was unaware that a contract had actually been signed with Harris — though he knew Harris was keen to write the biography — at the point when he wrote his own outline . |
| 3 | Barroso disclosed that an agenda and timetable for talks had been drawn up , but that a ceasefire had not been discussed . |
| 4 | Accept its limitations and remember that a tan acquired slowly and carefully will result in the best , and most lasting , colour for your skin . |
| 5 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( see Marshall v Industrial Systems and Control Ltd [ 1992 ] IRLR 294 ) . |
| 6 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 7 | In concluding his address , Sir Thomas said that while the Appeal was under way the Fund would continue to support welfare work in its usual fashion , recording that a cheque had earlier been presented to the Chairman of Conference for the Association 's Eagle Lodge project . |
| 8 | In the Legion , there was no guarantee that a man had even used a flushing loo before . |
| 9 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 10 | This was on ‘ the night of the long knives ’ , when Macmillan dismissed seven of his Cabinet ( including Eccles ) and provoked the remark from Jeremy Thorpe : ‘ Greater love hath no man than this , that a man lay down his friends for his life . ’ |
| 11 | If Heydrich had a regret about life on earth — and he had never been heard to express one — it was that a day held merely twenty-four hours . |
| 12 | IT does n't surprise me that a survey showed very few Britons would give up their pet for £1m . |
| 13 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a survey conducted recently among the top 200 companies in this country , many based in the north of England and in Yorkshire , showed that 86 per cent . |
| 14 | there was no British Horst Wessel , nor indeed any anti-fascist martyr , as a result of political disturbances in the 1930s , although claims were made that a Blackshirt died later from injuries inflicted at a meeting at Holbeck Moor in Leeds . |
| 15 | It is believed that a scuffle broke out , and two shots were fired . |
| 16 | Botswana 's Director of Water Affairs confirmed that the contract for phase one of the project has been signed , but said that a decision had yet to be made over whether phase two was " viable " . |
| 17 | I had the feeling on reading it that a dam had just burst , and that she had a great deal more to say . |
| 18 | Into the Finn 's head there had strayed , not to be expelled , the words of an English nursery rhyme that a child had once recited to him . |
| 19 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 20 | Suppose that a firm decided never to pay dividends , preferring instead to reward shareholders entirely through capital gains . |
| 21 | The history of this property dates way back to the 13th century , but it was in the 19th century , that a nobleman came here and , for his wife , rebuilt the castle on the 13th century ruins . |
| 22 | In Britain , there had to be the recognition that a problem existed long before that problem could be effectively tackled ; American businessmen had already reached this point and had gone beyond it . |
| 23 | I saw a river-bed , biting deep into the land , but nothing to suggest that a lake had ever been there or that man had ever trod there . |
| 24 | She discovered that she was afraid of getting close , afraid of being betrayed , afraid of finding that a relationship did not solve all her problems , afraid of feeling trapped , afraid of ‘ disappearing ’ as a person , afraid of admitting that men were not all bad , afraid of losing her friends , afraid of having no more goals in life , afraid of giving up her unhappiness , afraid he might die , afraid of feeling dependent , afraid of sexual intimacy , afraid of letting go of the past , afraid that reality would not match up to the glorious fantasy … . |
| 25 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 26 | By Royal Invitation ( 1988 ) related , for example , that the Queen was suspicious about the number 13 , that a footman had once fallen in love with Princess Margaret , and that Prince Charles disliked chocolate cakes , but manifested a distinct partiality for Bath Olivers . |
| 27 | President Rafsanjani 's faction has ensured that a committee set up to vet candidates ' Islamic credentials has eliminated many hardliners , such as Ayatollah Khalkhali , who sentenced thousands to death early in the revolution . |
| 28 | Bert , who had after all spent a fair bit of time with Jasper , was surprised that a brother had never been mentioned . |
| 29 | Article 38 is the only specified exception , for it preserves the position that a rule set forth in a treaty can become binding upon a third party as a rule of customary international law . |
| 30 | But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer . |