Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its nodes are all like WISARD 's RAM chips , but the interconnections between them are arranged so that the nodes are in a layered partial order , not necessarily a tree . |
| 2 | I was told later that the designer at the Natural History Publications Section nearly broke down trying to put the pieces together , just as it was thought all the animals had been spotted and labelled , another would be discovered ; I think this was an exaggeration but it was a very tricky task . |
| 3 | I was told later that many North Eastern residents were disturbed by her noise . |
| 4 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 5 | ‘ I was told once that a good vintage should be like a woman — full-bodied and generous . |
| 6 | was n't really a technical situation I thought I was told yesterday that the erm letter from the Inspe the Pollution Inspectorate was a matter of opinion . |
| 7 | Because er I was I was trying I was told yesterday that I did n't do |
| 8 | I was informed today that elderly people who are trying to get into hospital are being put on to wards in which the nursing staff have not been designated specifically for the care of the elderly . |
| 9 | As the Working Group continued its deliberations on the secondary school curriculum , I was informed privately that Mr Baker would give way on this issue as long as the weighting for 16 year olds gave more emphasis to reading and writing . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's proved psychometrically that they are desk keys . ’ |
| 11 | What is more , we are told unequivocally that only those who are fortunate enough to live for another 30 years will be able to find out the purchase price of those companies . |
| 12 | We are told continually that the Labour party is united on this issue . |
| 13 | It seems doubtful , for one thing , whether we are conditioned so that words have this kind of direct causal power over us . |
| 14 | We were told later that the fraud was so enormous — a total of $10 million — that reconstruction was impossible , and that any money the majority shareholders could put in would soon disappear into a large hole . |
| 15 | We were told yesterday that ‘ No comment ’ means ‘ Guilty as hell ’ , but I mean you were suggesting |
| 16 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 17 | One of the great advantages of mechanised accounts is that machines accumulate the amount of individual postings as they are made so that the total balance of the ledger can be ascertained each day . |
| 18 | They are adjusted so that if the project were completed on time to specification the contractor would realize a reasonable profit . |
| 19 | Notice that they are standardised so that they sum to 1,000 . |
| 20 | Now that the full complement of introns in the ancestral triose phosphate isomerase gene has been mapped , he has been able to show that they are placed so that amino acids near each other in the protein 's structure are encoded wherever possible by the same exon , bolstering the idea that the original form of the gene contained a full complement of introns and was produced by exon shuffling . |
| 21 | They are also helpful if they are arranged so that you are paid on or before the date of delivery of your goods or services as compared with the usual 40- to 70-day wait for your cheque . |
| 22 | They are positioned so that the patient can get to and from the chair without too much effort . |
| 23 | They shop for relief from physician to physician , their self-esteem diminishes , and.their anxieties increase when they are told repeatedly that their symptoms are ‘ only due to nerves ’ . |
| 24 | These have six numbers and they 're designed so that everybody in the press , regardless of trunk access can use the numbers described . |
| 25 | As long ago as 1970 , the Coldstream-Summerson Report reflected the growing concern about vocational courses and suggested they be recognized so that they became design ‘ technician ’ courses along the lines of the definition laid down in the 1969 Haslegrave Report . |
| 26 | There have been many theories accounting for the prevalence of North , North East and East facing galleries , including a favourite one that they were built so that thrifty spinners might sit out and catch the last of the waning daylight . |
| 27 | They said they were warned yesterday that the Washington area centre would also be privatised if there were any problems in its running . |
| 28 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
| 29 | These were checked against a lexicon as they were produced so that unacceptable letter strings could be ruled out as early as possible . |
| 30 | The stones of the wall did not seem to be held together with mortar , but instead they were keyed so that each lay on the other with hardly a sign of a join . |