Example sentences of "[coord] [that] [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines . |
| 2 | According to Ben , she had waited for him and he had failed her ; never mind that the real fault was not his , or that he had lain at death 's door , or that he had been loath to go to her as a cripple , with nothing to offer but a life of struggle . |
| 3 | ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before … |
| 4 | The project was approved at ministerial level because it had been decided that the contract either did not significantly enhance Iraq 's military capability or that it had been signed before December , 1984 . |
| 5 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 6 | Local sources insisted that all the dead had been unarmed and that they had been attacked with sharpened spades and a noxious gas , which had itself been responsible for the death of two women . |
| 7 | ’ The committee heard evidence from Stemp and from Worcestershire and were satisfied that he had not knowingly taken amphetamines and that they had been administered to him without his knowledge , approval or authority . |
| 8 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 9 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 10 | The main thrust of all the writings was to show that Bonapartism was for France the natural system of government and that it had been so since the Revolution . |
| 11 | I complained mightily , only to be told that the stone table was a well-intentioned afterthought , erected in recent times , and that it had been removed to restore the henge to its original form . |
| 12 | He complained that he had not played the role that way , and that it had been tampered with in the editing for the sake of box office . |
| 13 | ‘ She told me she and Mellor had long chats about politics , and that it had been suggested by the Prime Minister that at the end of the year Mellor would be made the new Party chairman . ’ |
| 14 | But , in this case , we must suppose that he was both immoral and stupid : immoral in producing evidence which he knew to be forged , and stupid in not going further and producing the letters with their forged additions , for he would have known that a similar forgery supporting the monastic community at Canterbury had recently been submitted at Rome , and that it had been accepted and solemnly quoted to him by the pope as genuine . |
| 15 | They persuaded one sympathetic new bishop , Robert Grosseteste , that one of their claims ( that all new bishops in the province should be consecrated at Canterbury ) was genuine , and that it had been confirmed by Gregory IX . |
| 16 | We reckoned that the British Army was the most professional in the world and that it had been influential in training the South African and Israeli armies who we thought took second and third place . |
| 17 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 18 | It was depressing to discover that the warmth of Alexei 's concern was a sham , and that it had been aimed at making him susceptible to ideas which would lead to the industrialisation of Tarvaras . |
| 19 | I told her I 'd breast-fed the children on it and taught them to read by the fire on it , and that it had been wonderful as a family gathering place for many years . |
| 20 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
| 21 | Is the Leader of the House aware that the seventh report of the Public Accounts Committee on the privatisation of Harland and Wolff was not available to Members in the House until late yesterday evening and that it had been made available to others some time previously ? |
| 22 | During the course of the campaign the Liberal leader failed to deflect charges that the early election was prompted by political opportunism , and that it had been called while the Liberals still enjoyed a lead in the opinion polls , but with an economic downturn in prospect . |
| 23 | He refused to elaborate on his message except to confirm that it fell within the framework of UN Security Council resolutions , and that it had been delivered to an Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister , Sa'adoun Hammadi , who had visited Tehran on Feb. 1-3 . |
| 24 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |
| 25 | And that it had been dead for at least half an hour ! |
| 26 | He said his name was John and that he 'd been sexually abused as a child . |
| 27 | He told me it was still there and that he 'd been told he 's got to write to them today and they 've got to get it taken off within twenty eight days . |
| 28 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 29 | The Bath Spa said Mr Meister 's appointment was never seen as long-term and that he had been appointed to groom Mr Howard for the position . |
| 30 | He said that there had been a postal strike and that he had been trying to write to me and as the mail was getting through , I should get the letters . |