Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I had a friend who suffered from twisted testicles so I made sure part of my sponsorship arrangement is that I 'm provided with decent shorts with inner briefs that give me support .
2 The real mystery that I was engaged in tended to crowd the fiction out .
3 I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on .
4 But Lesley Beattie , owner of the York-based Friends Estate Agency , yesterday denied that she is biased against male employees .
5 DEFIANT Fergie is NOT sorry that she was pictured in topless romps with Texan John Bryan , her mother revealed last night .
6 She had once told Stephanie , whom she trusted , though it did not come easily to her to make confidences to her daughters , that she was possessed by physical loathing of Lucas Simmonds and of what contact — she was not specific — he might have had with her son .
7 I must point out that she was selected with considerable care .
8 She had a curious feeling that greater good fortune would yet be hers , that she was destined for high places .
9 At the trial , the mother 's defence was that she was haunted by black magic and voodoo , and a voice had commanded her to ‘ Strangle !
10 But it is encapsulated in the phrase that she was subjected to sadistic behaviour over a lengthy period of time which she accepted because she was in love with him .
11 If you are working in a very technical field you should do your homework before the interview so that you are prepared for detailed questions about equipment and techniques you may have to deal with .
12 ‘ She told us that you had all been kept in what looked like some palace rooms , about how you were all positioned , never allowed to touch or speak , and that you were watched through little holes in the door .
13 But there was a feeling of peace and quiet in those old towns , a silence that was almost tangible , and it was impressive to stand alone beside the fast flowing river and know that one was surrounded by deep forest for hundreds of miles in all directions .
14 Some say that it is because the church has neglected , in almost every generation , to create a true fellowship in Christ that we are faced with modern freemasonry or , more recently , acid house or the New Age groups .
15 That means that we are locked into issuing fire certificates since we rely on the and it imposes a marked official erm , performance target on us , we ca n't afford to let the numbers of inspections of supported defences drop , so that means that we 've got to find money from elsewhere in the budget .
16 However , this good fortune can not be guaranteed and human psychology may be such that we are doomed to permanent hesitancy or disagreement , a fact with which each will have to cope from the perspective of his own attitudes .
17 Probably too much so on the political side , in so far that er er looking back , it seems that w w we were isolated from other young people , in so far that we were associated with straight political er activity and er straight political movement .
18 The hospital management insists that everything was done under proper nursing supervision .
19 He also insisted that the belief that everything was made for human benefit should not intrude when assessing the merits of rival theories .
20 You 'll notice that they 're geared to certain things on the on the question paper , th the the constituents really of what we 're going to talk about this afternoon , which will revolve mainly around thinking about things that you 're doing , I E good observation and concentration , those two going hand in hand , always organizing yourself in relation to a good separation distance , so you can equate what safety means to you .
21 ‘ It goes on to say that they 're designated for marine use .
22 It does n't help when , as a child , your brother leads you to believe that they 're used as rubber pants for hamsters .
23 Given the amount of calls and the fact that they 're telephoned in different areas it seems a lot of trouble to go through if it was a hoax .
24 Teachers must be intellectuals in the sense that they are engaged in constant co-operative inquiry into the content and method of schooling , an inquiry in which their own experiences and thoughts provide major input .
25 As Zachar ( 1982 ) has described , the poor cohesiveness of loess soils , due to the paucity of binding colloids , means that they are characterised by high erodibility which is made worse by leaching that rapidly removes cations like calcium and magnesium .
26 It is important that they are kept in good working order so that water does not leak from the system and so that you can turn the water off when you want to . :
27 These manufactured crayons differ from lump sanguine in that they are based on special recipes , including China clay admixtures , to soften the natural properties of the colouring matter used .
28 In the field of economic policy in particular , business and labour have come to work so closely with the interventionist state that they are seen as governing institutions in their own right .
29 They are usually so directly continuous with the tergum that they are regarded as postero-lateral outgrowths of that region .
30 The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century .
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