Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mir Jafar , who was made Nawab , had an adequate claim to the throne and might have been a good ruler under other circumstances , but it was quite clear that he was on the throne simply because the Company had decided to put him there . |
| 2 | A memorandum by Frank Jacques to the District Council of 12 March 1955 , and an address he gave to that Council , made it clear that he was in favour of both Recommendations . |
| 3 | It was clear that he was in no condition to get himself home unaided . |
| 4 | It is interesting that he should have first obtained benefices in the north ; in the late thirteenth century very many royal clerks were beneficed in the province of York , and it is clear that he was in the king 's service by 1262 , acting as a proctor for Henry III in the French court . |
| 5 | From Manners ' remarks in Parliament on 18th February , it is clear that he was by then already familiar with Scott 's proposals although the detailed drawings were not sent to his office until 3rd March . |
| 6 | He also made it clear that he was against black boycotts organized around the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico , at which Thommie Smith and John Carlos demonstrated on the victory rostrum with a gloved black power salute . |
| 7 | At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life . |
| 8 | I ask because , for example , when Vaclav Havel was in London , Thatcher made it very clear that she was against any weakening of Nato , let alone its dissolution . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought it over again and I have decided there must be an announcement , because it would indicate the merits of the matter and make it perfectly clear that I was in the right . ’ |
| 10 | He made it clear that it was for Sir Rufus to determine , and for you to comply . |
| 11 | The same qualifications characterized the University Statute of 1863 which , while granting the universities greater autonomy , made clear that it was to be exercised within narrow guide-lines . |
| 12 | But modern scholarship has made it clear that it was in France , more so than in England , that urban defensive requirements played a major part in securing the widespread acceptance of artillery as a means of deterring or countering a prospective enemy . |
| 13 | This is generally called the tepidarium but it is doubtful that it was in fact such a room for it would have been too immense to heat and no hypocausts have been discovered under it . |
| 14 | It is interesting that it was in the same period as that of the large-scale production of holy prints on paper that the ( moveable ) canvas began to replace the wall-fresco as the most common base material for painting . |
| 15 | Now , watching his grinning monkey face as he swung , arm over arm , the frantic twisting of his body , the silver of the delicate ribcage under the pale flesh where the jacket had parted from his jeans , she felt a surge of love so painful that it was like a thrust to the heart . |
| 16 | A contemporary Christ Church gospel book records the entry of Cnut and his brother Harald into confraternity with the community , and although Cnut could simply have given them Harald 's name , it is possible that he was in England in 1016 , as Thietmar says , remained with Cnut , went to Canterbury , and returned to Denmark with part of the fleet after the payment of 1018 . |
| 17 | Those statements should be true but erm you would n't have the right that it was of merchantable quality . |
| 18 | The success of the tour made it less difficult to tell herself that this was what she wanted , but it did n't stop those sudden down-swings when she was swept by a longing so total that it was like a haemorrhage of the soul . |
| 19 | It was strange that she was in no way jealous of Jessie being her father 's choice for betterment , because Jessie herself had n't wanted to go to the Secretarial School , nor had her mother wanted her to go . |
| 20 | It was considered self-evident that it was in the general national , indeed imperial , interest to move towards free labour . |
| 21 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 22 | Jones has given talks about muon catalysed fusion all over the USA and in Europe , so it is ironic that it was after speaking at his new home institution , Brigham Young University , on 12 March 1986 that the seminal interaction occurred with Paul Palmer . |
| 23 | the oldest , amazing that he was on the insurance , it had gone up , and the eighty seven per cent |
| 24 | Eileen came on leave on 28 August and it was fortunate that she was with her mother . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't suppose it 's impossible that he was in the thing , but as to screaming , do n't you think he left it a bit late ? ’ |
| 26 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , I was sweating and burning up so much that I was in danger of melting away into a puddle . |
| 28 | I have never felt so much that I was in a foreign country with seemingly infinite resources available for any purpose you care to name , from stretch automobiles to space travel . |
| 29 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 30 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |