Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] had " 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 | It was clear that everyone had felt equally proprietorial about Philip . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only you made it clear that we had no future . ’ |
| 7 | But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although Glasgow District Council ( GDC ) supported Heatfest , they made it clear that they had not the resources to implement any radical outcome . |
| 12 | They may have done so , but they did not make it clear that they had . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is fairly clear that they had rediscovered at least some of Mendel 's laws before his work was known to them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 18 | Quickly it became clear that he had mistaken quiet and comfort for contentment . |
| 19 | Mr Masters was quite clear that he had first seen the blue BMW late on the Saturday evening , ten days before , pointing out that , while you could n't exactly complain , it had made access to his own forecourt space a little difficult , or at least when there was already another car on the forecourt , which there mostly was , that being Mrs Masters 's runabout . |
| 20 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 21 | When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me , I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness . |
| 22 | But after a while , the roads on his map began to criss-cross each other in a crazy fashion and it became clear that he had forgotten the geography of his land . |
| 23 | Jonadab had made it clear that he had done his son-in-law a favour in allowing him to jump the queue and buy four of his grey shirehorses and now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess that one was dead . |
| 24 | His speech made clear that he had been brought reluctantly to much the same view as his Director of Propaganda . |
| 25 | He had to make it clear that he had learnt his lesson on tariff reform , and to do this in a way as compatible as possible with the dignity of an ex-Prime Minister . |
| 26 | When we played at his club in Westwood and I beat him comfortably , he discussed the result with his friends in such a way that it was clear that he had deliberately thrown the match in order to contribute to our personal relationship . |
| 27 | Although the sentencer did not expressly mention section 53(2) , it was clear that he had allowed a substantial discount for the pleas of guilty . |
| 28 | Wilson would talk at great length and it became clear to me that the number of people in whom he could confide safely was very small ; in fact it was clear that he had few , if any , complete political friends . |
| 29 | It was immediately clear that he had put his foot in it . |
| 30 | It soon became clear that he had enjoyed having a free hand with Frank . |