Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I had to make all these er computations out and er I made fifty that I thought nobody could pick . |
| 2 | On 25 July , the Official Solicitor visited the dockers in prison , but they made clear that they did not intend to give any undertakings of obedience to the NIRC or to apologize — which is normally essential before those in contempt are released . |
| 3 | Expressing his view that the case should go on , the judge made clear that he thought Mr. Gilbert was ‘ a witness of truth and a very accurate and careful one , ’ whereas Mr. Everett was ‘ patently false . ’ |
| 4 | He made clear that he agreed with the thrust of all the other recommendations , except the one which said that responsibility for food should remain within the Department of Agriculture . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His speech made clear that he had been brought reluctantly to much the same view as his Director of Propaganda . |
| 8 | In August 1861 he made clear that he wanted to move beyond the problem of the western provinces to the problem of priests in general . |
| 9 | Although the mainstream group , Fatah , made clear that it ruled out any question of subverting the Hashemite regime , other groups , of which the PFLP was the most notable , made equally clear their view that the overthrow of the Hashemites was a necessary preliminary to the recovery of Palestine . |
| 10 | Western leaders , including John Major , yesterday came out in Mr Yeltsin 's defence and the White House made clear that it wanted to go ahead with the planned summit meeting between President Bill Clinton and Mr Yeltsin in April . |
| 11 | However , it made clear that it tried to keep the duration of such layoffs to a minimum , and suggested also that it was its industrial , not its secretarial/office staff , who were most likely to be affected by them ( interview with Manpower ) . |
| 12 | But in chapter 16 Dathan and Abiram make clear that they see only the prospect of eventual death in the wilderness if Moses continues as their leader , and in chapter 14 death in battle seems only too imminent . |
| 13 | The dream-poems of Chaucer and the French medieval poets before him make clear that it did not . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It had a small receptive field that was somewhat elongated vertically , and on examination with elongated stimuli it became clear that it responded well to a vertical bar but not at all to a horizontal bar . |
| 20 | Finally , foreign museums started contacting the Ministry of Culture and asking if they could buy , let us say , a picture by Malévich or Popova , and then it became clear that I had the pictures . |
| 21 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 22 | Quickly it became clear that he had mistaken quiet and comfort for contentment . |
| 23 | When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me , I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It soon became clear that he had enjoyed having a free hand with Frank . |
| 26 | The National Party leader , Charles Blunt , also resigned in the aftermath of the election defeat , announcing his decision on April 6 when it became clear that he had lost his seat in the federal parliament . |
| 27 | But he was to find no lasting romance again and , as the years went by , it became clear that he had not lost his love for Gabrielle . |
| 28 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 29 | At the launch of Smith 's campaign , it soon became clear that he intends to encourage rather than to lead the debate about the party 's future . |
| 30 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |