Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became clear that nothing had been gained by removing the prince , especially as another ruler had now to be found . |
| 2 | The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them . |
| 3 | It was clear that everyone had felt equally proprietorial about Philip . |
| 4 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 5 | After we reduced the parts to three , it became clear that we had to remove the work from the centre and reduce it to two elements , which would hold the volumes of the north and the south galleries and make a linkage across the Octagon activating the entire space . |
| 6 | She took the packet with some fussy excitement , and she was clearly a little relieved when we made it clear that we had no intention of staying or seeking entrance . |
| 7 | Only you made it clear that we had no future . ’ |
| 8 | I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war . |
| 9 | It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing . |
| 10 | Once mother-infant interactions came to be studied in detail it became clear that we needed to reshape radically our ideas about socialization-about how children are integrated into a social world . |
| 11 | Now they were making it clear that they expected more from her : " If I had done reasonably well , they would say that I should have done better , and if I had done badly , they would ask , " What 's wrong with you ? " " |
| 12 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 13 | Although precise definitions are hard to come by , it is clear that they looked to some kind of ideal worker , that is , someone who was trustworthy , interested , intelligent , literate and numerate , full of initiative , and capable of mental and physical agility . |
| 14 | It is also clear that they understood the logic of tacit collusion , put very clearly by one firm : |
| 15 | He and his advisers were so dismayed as to misread the letter , for the reply makes it clear that they understood the meeting of the princes to have taken place already . |
| 16 | But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to . |
| 17 | It seems clear that they had corresponded during 1796 , and by the time they met again at Stowey they were well acquainted with each other 's work . |
| 18 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 19 | It is clear that they had already formulated their ideas and been moving towards confirming them , but the definite proof still awaited the energy sensitive neutron spectrometer . |
| 20 | Although Glasgow District Council ( GDC ) supported Heatfest , they made it clear that they had not the resources to implement any radical outcome . |
| 21 | They may have done so , but they did not make it clear that they had . |
| 22 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 23 | It is fairly clear that they had rediscovered at least some of Mendel 's laws before his work was known to them . |
| 24 | Whether or not this advance notice had any bearing on the government 's response , when the subpoenas were served on 29 September , the FBI , the DEA , the State Department , the National Security Agency , the CIA and the National Security Council each made it clear that they had no intention of complying with them . |
| 25 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 26 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 29 | His new Food and Beverage Manager is in favour , but the idea was resisted by the original departmental heads , who made it clear that they preferred the old system . |
| 30 | When both the Minister for Justice , General McEoin , and the Attorney General , Mr Charles Casey , made it clear that they considered the legislation inopportune , pressure for an explanation eventually brought forward a response from Mr Casey . |