Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pers pn] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 2 | Winnie Mandela told supporters that she had been found guilty by the media . |
| 3 | We 're discussing this morning , and I 'll run briefly through the subjects that we have been discussing this morning for the er , new listeners . |
| 4 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 5 | These satellites are in geostationary orbit and the images that they provide are used primarily in weather forecasting applications . |
| 6 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 7 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 8 | He has been so busy in the last two or three months that he has been forced to temporarily stop promoting his products . |
| 9 | Now here was this gifted sister , who had so many opportunities that he had been denied , apparently threatening to throw them all down the drain , and bury herself in some backwater in Africa . |
| 10 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 11 | But certainly there was no objection in principle from the County Council 's Highway Authority and acting as agents for the Department of Transport , as trunk road agent , as a matter of principle , to any of the sectors that we 've been discussing today . |
| 12 | An important factor in the crisis is the awakening realisation among West Germans that they have been tricked into pretending this peculiar arrangement of subsidising their compatriots ' oppressors was normal . |
| 13 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 14 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the policies that we have been pursuing and economic prosperity in the Province , where we have seen advances in recent years . |
| 15 | In addition , there are the policies that they have been advocating from the Front Bench this afternoon on the European social action programme , a national statutory minimum wage and trade union law reform , which would make it easier to strike and to have more frequent and more damaging strikes . |
| 16 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 17 | Our own experience from several of the projects that we 've been looking at which are in-service type projects , is that when we do train teachers and when we do put an investment in it , we see the pay-off in the schools that physical science does get done in schools , it is fun and it is exciting . |
| 18 | Our own experience from several of the projects that we 've been looking at which are in-service type projects , is that when we do train teachers and when we do put an investment in it , we see the pay-off in the schools that physical science does get done in schools , it is fun and it is exciting . |
| 19 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 20 | In Northern Ireland ‘ The Thing ’ eventually unchained some of the other phenomena that we have been discussing here , which are inherently separate : endemic hooliganism ; the breakthrough of the use of the firearm ; and the infinite potential for blocking the formation of antibodies , for blocking the natural reaction of a society to violence , which exists in a divided community . |
| 21 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 22 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 23 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 24 | The West has simply ‘ rediscovered ’ in Africa ( despite the diversity and complexity of that continent 's cultures ) fundamental values that we imagine were lost or repressed in the high noon of civilization and progress : values like ‘ natural ’ well-being , spontaneity , conviviality , uninhibitedness , everything we long for and want to relearn in the 1980s . |
| 25 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 26 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 27 | There are signs that she had been tortured : severe cuts , her legs broken , her right arm dislocated … |
| 28 | He knew he had to turn his back on Crevecoeur , dreading the day he would see physical signs that SHe had been working . |
| 29 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 30 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |