Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal charges against Latimer were that he had made improper profits out of the campaign in Brittany and that he was responsible for the loss of Bécherel and Saint-Sauveur . |
| 2 | ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’ |
| 3 | One story told against the KGB is that it tried to steal the design secrets of the Anglo-French supersonic aircraft Concorde . |
| 4 | ‘ The problem with Andy is that he has played so rarely we have yet to get him into our pattern of play . |
| 5 | If I left a table in Fif 's that I 'd just acquired , I might attract attention . |
| 6 | All the cops know about Mahoney is that he worked for Joey Bonanza . |
| 7 | ‘ Another thing I admired about young lads like Ken Logan , Gregor Townsend and Peter Wright is that they have the right attitude , a little bit of cockiness . |
| 8 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 9 | Blanche tiptoed over and remembered the face from the photograph of Tatyana 's that she had borrowed . |
| 10 | One claim guaranteed to draw fire from Kylie is that she missed out on a childhood because of showbiz . |
| 11 | I think one of my difficulties with Adam Bede is that she begins to lose interest a little bit in the figure of the beautiful , but not actually very bright , village girl , whose seduction is an important part of the story , and by the end of the book we feel that she 's actually bored with Hettie , is n't really concerned any longer to explore Hettie 's own sufferings as the other woman who has been badly treated by the rascally gentleman . |
| 12 | A notable feature of the ambers from Kakovatos is that they include spacer beads with convergent perforations like those on similar pieces from tumulus burials in south Germany , on the route from the amber coast of west Jutland to the Aegean world . |
| 13 | A brief analysis of Primal Scream 's pop career has also taken place , rounded off by a sure-footed declaration from Craig that ‘ the only respect I have for Bobby Gillespie is that he 's been closer to Kylie Minogue 's fanny than I have . ’ |
| 14 | In many ways the achievement of Young and Helmholtz was that they showed , in principle , that colour vision would be possible with only three receptors , providing those receptors were most sensitive to the right colours . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe what upset Dustin was that he knew that , although he was the better actor , Steve 's performance in Papillon was superior , ’ commented Norman Jewison , who had directed McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair , but who never worked with Dustin . |
| 16 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 17 | Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA 's $182.6m proposed convertible bond issue won ratings of triple-B-minus rating from Standard & Poor 's Corp , and Baa-3 from Moody 's Investors Service Inc ; Standard & Poor 's said its rating reflects the company 's dominant position in local telephone services , growth prospects , and favourable regulatory framework ; Moody 's that it believes the company will continue to be the largest telecommunications company in Chile and will benefit from a supportive regulator . |
| 18 | The importance of the recent discovery of this document recording the conclusions of the conferences of 26–27 May is that it fills in what have hitherto been two of the most significant gaps in the whole story . |
| 19 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 20 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 21 | The value of ITED is that it pinpoints strengths and weaknesses precisely . ’ |
| 22 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 23 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 24 | The extraordinary thing about Greene is that he wrote over decades and changed so fluently from a pre-war to a post-war writer . |
| 25 | Well , we , we as you correctly say er with the whole industry had a , had a difficult August , I think the good news for Rover is that we fell less in volume terms than most of the competition , and indeed we marginally increased our market share . |
| 26 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 27 | The only problem with Snotties is that they take casualties fairly quickly . |
| 28 | If the Department of the Environment think that there are issues of more than local importance they will call it in but their preliminary view expressed to the local MP Mr is that they do n't believe that 's the case . |
| 29 | But the fathers also insisted , and believing Christians have proclaimed it ever since , that although we do not fully understand the relationship between God and the Devil , the inescapable fact about Satan is that he has declared war on God and his creation . |
| 30 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |