Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other leading figures of the party made it clear that they share his sentiments . |
| 2 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 3 | It is quite clear that he accepted its authority and its validity . |
| 4 | Laing made it clear that he despised his fellow MPs for affecting the common touch and wearing Olex ; he himself never appeared in the house without a worsted suit and a carnation . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher had rebuffed suggestions that he resign and made it clear that he enjoyed her full confidence . |
| 6 | My rebellion was only half-consciously directed at my father 's choice of reading matter for me , although his disapproving and often angry comments made it clear that he took my behaviour as a personal affront . |
| 7 | It was clear that he made her life happier than it had been , but she still had to put up with the desperately uncomfortable conditions and go out on her terrifying foraging expeditions . |
| 8 | FOLLOWING our report of an accident in which a young girl was injured in a road accident , the driver concerned , Patrick White , who lives in Jenner Way , Alton , has asked us to make clear that he defends his manner of driving and ‘ was not to blame ’ . |
| 9 | There were times when Gooch publicly made it clear that he put his home life before cricket . |
| 10 | Nigel Lawson may have won his prime minister the 1987 election , but it has become ever more clear that he let his boom run on too long and too strong thereafter . |
| 11 | She made it clear that she wished their relationship to continue , but could nor tolerate Charles 's violent outbursts . |
| 12 | O'Keeffe made it clear that she defined her art strictly as self-expression and indicated that she had first begun her formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago . |
| 13 | I made it clear that I wanted our discussion that morning to focus on business matters , but I realised that she had a need to talk to someone , preferably someone discreet . |
| 14 | The right hon. Gentleman said : ’ That is a firm commitment , costed and clear that I pledge our Labour Government will carry out . ’ |
| 15 | But in fact they were so ill prepared that they lost their naval base of Minorca and seemed unable to organize any effective counter-measures . |
| 16 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |
| 17 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 18 | Doctor Who got so incredibly popular that you found your weekends were no longer free either . |
| 19 | It is perhaps interesting that she gave her forwarding address in America as 83 Brattle Street which was , in fact , where Emily Hale lived . |
| 20 | Rejection was so icily painful that she caught her breath . |
| 21 | You think it odd that I pay her bills ? |
| 22 | Odd that it made our mother so neurotic |
| 23 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating , and the proof of people skills is that they make it as likely as possible that we achieve our objectives with people . |
| 24 | It was also possible that they saw his state of mind as a potential liability , particularly if he got desperate and tried to escape again . |
| 25 | It is possible that he achieves his object . |
| 26 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |
| 27 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 28 | Once my father had been laid in his bed , I was a little uncertain as to how to proceed ; for while it seemed undesirable that I leave my father in such a condition , I did not really have a moment more to spare . |
| 29 | During the next few days , Cassie was immeasurably grateful that she had her work . |
| 30 | ‘ It was so strong that they hit my March 1994 revenue estimate . ’ |