Example sentences of "[is] [adj] that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ? |
| 2 | These words are well past her point of failure in the Schonell Test ( that is , ten consecutive errors ) , and so it is possible that she had reached a level of frustration : feeling that all the words were too difficult she ceased to think carefully about whether what she was writing down was likely , and simply put down anything that came to mind . |
| 3 | Mancini 's account is an inversion of that suggested here , but it is possible that he had the spectrum of conciliar opinion right and then misread its implications . |
| 4 | Mancini 's account is an inversion of that suggested here , but it is possible that he had the spectrum of conciliar opinion right and then misread its implications . |
| 5 | It is clear that they had already formulated their ideas and been moving towards confirming them , but the definite proof still awaited the energy sensitive neutron spectrometer . |
| 6 | ‘ In any case , it is clear that he had made his mind up . |
| 7 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 8 | In the second place , it is clear that she had no idea what effect her remark would or could have had on me . |
| 9 | Your correspondent , K. Foster ( ‘ Medical fees a rip-off ’ ) is fortunate that he had to pay only £45 for his annual medical and ECG . |
| 10 | In the meantime , it is likely that everyone had contracted the disease at some time or another in his or her life , and it proved fatal to those with the merest weakness whose bodies could not withstand its ravages . |
| 11 | In saying this , it is likely that he had in mind not merely Lessing 's criterion of beauty , but his fundamental contrast between poetry and the visual arts . |
| 12 | From Gordon Thomas 's evidence to the Royal Commission it is obvious that he had carried out much research into an improved canal , including technical planning , estimates of costs and market studies into the expectations of more traffic . |
| 13 | But then I , I , it 's unfortunate that you had your first I mean someone who had no experience of headmastership , head , head teachers , I mean all the head teachers I should think are in financial problems this year cos it 's really there first full year |
| 14 | yeah it 's good that they had a fairer chance of getting on to the tables |
| 15 | It 's logical that somebody had to bring it in . ’ |
| 16 | It is unlikely that he had kept his hands out of ecclesiastical politics in a diocese which could easily have become his family 's see . |
| 17 | It is unlikely that anyone had seriously anticipated a minority . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that anyone had seriously anticipated a minority . |
| 19 | However the wealth may have been produced it is evident that it had created a rich landowning class . |
| 20 | Perhaps it 's telling that a similar process of self-siphoning is also afflicting Hollywood , for no other song-writer is as steeped in cinema as Springsteen ( it is surprising that we had to wait until Indian Runner for a film to be made of one of his songs ) . |
| 21 | It is true that there had been a steady erosion to the pre-war image of Japan as a cheap labour economy producing shoddy goods , but the 1970s saw an explosion of interest in what lessons Japan could offer advanced industrial societies . |
| 22 | It is true that he had omitted the full details of the proofs , but the results sought by the French Academy were clearly stated and the main steps in the argument were given . |
| 23 | It 's true that we had a issue erm nineteen eighty five but the reserves are now six hundred and fifty million . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's true that I had the opportunity to be alone in the office , and we both know that I was angry and said a lot of things in the heat of the moment … but would I really be this vindictive ? ’ |