Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [pers pn] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no legal justification whatever ’ , he thundered , ‘ in saying that Meehan was wrongly convicted , and having heard all the evidence in this case , you might well have come to the clear conclusion that he was in fact rightly convicted . ’ |
| 2 | Status remains important but it is no longer the central feature of British society that it was in preceding centuries . |
| 3 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 4 | It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory , but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd , something duplicitous perhaps , about this apparently charming American gentleman . |
| 5 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |
| 6 | The simple fact that he was in her husband 's employ gave her an advantage over him . |
| 7 | Struggling throughout his life with his own infirmity of will , and with a haunting sense that he was like some great tree possessing ‘ pith within the Trunk , not heart of Wood ’ , he was consistently drawn , for good and ill , to those possessing stronger personalities than his own . |
| 8 | He thus conveyed the false impression that it was in demand . |
| 9 | These were er built in between the th that long period that I was on the council . |
| 10 | Then an order came to pick up Weibel again ‘ I had to hide my dismay when Weibel was bought back without a blindfold — a sure sign that he was to be killed . ’ |
| 11 | There was a good chance that he was in Mariánské Láznë on holiday , was n't there ? |
| 12 | Where Richard was during these years of military and diplomatic manoeuvring we do not know , but it is a reasonable guess that he was with his mother , since Aquitaine was her duchy and it was by her wish that it was to be made over to him . |
| 13 | In June he gave a broad hint that he was on the verge of acting . |
| 14 | In 1988 , customers , so cheesed off with the Line 's service , staged the famous so-called ‘ battle of Finchley Central , ’ occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of ‘ speeding ’ to its original destination of High Barnet . |
| 15 | It is easy to see , however , that she is still the same forceful woman that she was in ‘ Barchester Towers ’ . |
| 16 | Arthur Young in 1795 , pointing out in a year of extreme hunger that it was against the law to starve in England , included in his argument : " Parish officers are bound to provide … and if they do not do their duty , there is an appeal to the justice , who will force them to its performance . " |
| 17 | They also reflected a growing belief that it was in the general interest for the old to stop working : a fundamental change in attitude . |
| 18 | The old woman was gypsy brown , the tan so shiny on the mild skin that it was like a fresh varnish . |
| 19 | Although she was astute enough to understand this on a logical basis , it took several sessions of counselling and therapy to convince Myra 's subconscious mind that she was in no way to blame and that she had behaved naturally and in total innocence . |
| 20 | he to the managing director that I was in the office with a very serious complaint . |
| 21 | Whether or not she was cooking , she regularly donned an apron as a symbolically matriarchal gesture that she was in charge of domestic arrangements . |
| 22 | As we read the correspondence we seem to see Dorothy growing out of the gushing flibbertigibbet that she was in 1909 into a person altogether more substantial . |
| 23 | Considerable discussion , interlaced with esoteric mathematics , resulted in the general agreement that it was worth about the equivalent of one very fat sacrificial boar . |
| 24 | He had an obscure faith that he was in the presence of some tributary of Fred 's staunch temperament . |
| 25 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 26 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 27 | He felt powerless in the face of his father , and was cursed with the unshakeable conviction that he was to be punished throughout life for some unspecified crime . |
| 28 | His retreat was , however , purely tactical , for the hunter had got wind of his quarry and from early 1869 he began to lay his traps , with the certain knowledge that he was on the right track . |
| 29 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 30 | James , however , held the unwavering view that it was amongst the weak and the exploited where one had to look for the root of historical change . |