Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [that] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many others from the 1960s and before , I am fortunate that I missed the modern way and so view science as a richer and altogether more fulfilling experience . |
| 2 | That 's particularly important in systems like ours , where you can divert your telephone , so even though you 're certain that you dialled the right number , you could end up absolutely anywhere , because the number you dialled could be diverted somewhere completely different , so it 's very important when you answer the telephone to say who you are . |
| 3 | My sparrow had been lucky that I scared the cat off when I did . |
| 4 | I am sure that he saw the depressing report in The Sunday Telegraph that , with its customary foresight and thoughtfulness , the Treasury had decided to reject the Thameslink project . |
| 5 | And it surely is som something that the people of Wiltshire can be glad that they made the right decisions in May , that they have n't got that administration , |
| 6 | The Pentagon must be glad that they added the faint possibility that there was one chance in ten thousand that security might be breached . |
| 7 | I AM a new member of Amnesty International , and read with interest the letters of criticism ( AMNESTY June/July ) about your appeal envelope — I 'm glad that you had the courage to print such obviously justified disapproval . |
| 8 | I 'm amazed that you thought the Bob Mould feature was excellent . |
| 9 | The Magistrate , for example , when told that Mrs Wright had been taken ill , showed no interest whatsoever , and when further informed , a little later , that she had given birth , observed dryly : " I 'm surprised that she had the energy . " |
| 10 | Again , I am amazed that I accomplished the job so quickly seeing that most of the work was done at weekends . |
| 11 | Conservative politicians were over-confident that they knew the right policies , and to a large extent they were contemptuous towards the professional teacher . |
| 12 | Now erm , the Council can support such groups , it can , it can , got formally decided the body to support such groups and with the West Essex Health Action Campaign all political parties on this Council decided to support it , because they were sad that we lost the fifty million . |
| 13 | The bulk of the drawing rules were such that you got the pin diameter plus you know , their size pads and all this and stuff . |
| 14 | They were thrilled that she had the chance to come to Britain . |
| 15 | They heard them talking , and were sure that they knew the voice of the visitor . |
| 16 | In divertissements , although it is possible that they reflected the spectacle in some way when dances were characterized , large-scale key-changes seem to have been brought in mainly for the sake of musical variety . |
| 17 | There is documentary evidence that considerable numbers of Garonnais cattle went to England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and it is possible that they influenced the big , yellow-red South Devon . |
| 18 | She had chased it out of the house in February when one of her grandchildren was visiting ; and it is possible that it spent the night in the house during the week of the March sighting , as there was a very strong smell in the dining room the following morning . |
| 19 | Mancini 's account is an inversion of that suggested here , but it is possible that he had the spectrum of conciliar opinion right and then misread its implications . |
| 20 | Mancini 's account is an inversion of that suggested here , but it is possible that he had the spectrum of conciliar opinion right and then misread its implications . |
| 21 | Rizzo maintains no more than that it is possible that he wrote the poem . |
| 22 | If indeed they were prehistoric , it is doubtful that they crossed the open downland after the later Bronze Age . |
| 23 | Comparing them to the English Baroque woodwinds , it is clear that they became the prototype and standard for English makers well into the 18th century . |
| 24 | In this he was only following in Lanfranc 's footsteps , and it is clear that he expected the king to exercise more authority in ecclesiastical affairs than the more ‘ advanced ’ ecclesiastical theorists of his time thought tolerable . |
| 25 | Gloucester was much in demand as an arbiter and as a source of legal redress , and it is clear that he took the matter seriously . |
| 26 | Gloucester was much in demand as an arbiter and as a source of legal redress , and it is clear that he took the matter seriously . |
| 27 | Although he has been accused , of course , of social snobbery , I think it 's clear that he observed the life around him closely and critically . |
| 28 | ‘ It is incredible that he made the mis-statement about Ohio other than wittingly and dishonestly . ’ |
| 29 | It is obvious that it thought the enlightened amateur , like Hope himself , was the ideal judge . |
| 30 | But it is proud that it eschewed the now-or-never mentality that drove others to make acquisitions in the run-up to Europe 's single market in financial services . |