Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am immensely gratified that those who participate in the activities of co-operation between the RUC and Garda Siochana say that the quality of co-operation is at its highest point for 30 years . |
| 2 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 3 | Navy blue high-heeled shoes and earrings completed the ensemble and I am reliably informed that the skirt was the ‘ new length ’ , i.e. above the knee . |
| 4 | I am reliably informed that the mighty Australian earns 10 million dollars a year and that while he chooses to live in America , he buys his snooker cue and table in England because the English , apparently , still produce the best in that line . |
| 5 | ‘ And I am reliably informed that makes him dependable , trustworthy — and loyal unto death ! ’ |
| 6 | I AM reliably told that the AUSTRALIAN RUGBY UNION has eventually accepted the tour itinerary of Ireland and Wales as initially suggested . |
| 7 | I am repeatedly told that all the fuss is being caused by a vociferous minority of licensees . |
| 8 | I am equally persuaded that the development of certain ‘ genres ’ of art ( the drama with the ancient Greeks , or the novel , with Dostoyevsky or Joyce ) have opened up possibilities which certainly did not exist earlier . |
| 9 | I am not persuaded that the jurisdiction of the visitor involves such exceptional considerations that this principle should be departed from and that some grounds be accepted and others held not to be available for the purposes of judicial review . |
| 10 | I keep the matter under review , as I must , but in the circumstances I am not persuaded that the public interest requires me to take the necessarily large number of actions up and down the country . |
| 11 | I am not persuaded that any further calculation relating to enhancement of value such as that adopted by Mr in case is required . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 13 | ‘ I am now told that he 's hawking her story around for a six-figure sum , ’ he writes in the 100,000-circulation journal , which is read mainly by journalists , stock-brokers and media personalities . |
| 14 | Personally , I am much encouraged that in response to pressure the Bill was amended to make it flexible enough to accommodate pupils ' special educational needs . |
| 15 | I am absolutely determined that this should not happen again . |
| 16 | After the closest and most detailed scrutiny , I am absolutely persuaded that that will be achieved . |
| 17 | I am greatly touched that she thinks of me and remembers me even in the state of forgetfulness of human affairs in which she now finds herself . |
| 18 | I 'm also told that we 'll have no problems with the phone calls this week . |
| 19 | ‘ I wo n't ask any more questions , and I 'm not hurt that Sarah knows , honestly . ’ |
| 20 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 21 | Early in August , after sending the department a recorded delivery letter every month from January , I was finally informed that my husband would be granted his claim — but they could n't make the payment yet because they had lost his file . |
| 22 | There was then more silence , and I was later told that the Microwriter company had been improving the Agenda system . |
| 23 | Finally on this aspect of the matter , I was not persuaded that any of the defendants was unable to prevent the nuisance . |
| 24 | I was simply told that I had no vocation . |
| 25 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 26 | I was also charmed that one lady called me Rosemary Clooney ! |
| 27 | I was basically told that there was nothing they could do about it , and that if I wanted a harmoniser that worked I would have to buy a separate rack unit . |
| 28 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 29 | So when , in 1959 , it was decided to build a mid-engined car , I was violently affronted that Berthon and his staff at Bourne would design it , and not me at Folkingham . |
| 30 | On seeking advice regarding the application I was originally informed that it was ‘ merely an extension of the existing ‘ Table Licence ’ to incorporate recently acquired adjacent premises ' . |