Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The management ref refused to talk all the time and after a while it just got depressing , the fact that nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 2 | 1991 , 27 , 145 ) that nothing seems to be known about Clara Taylor during the years 1921–26 , when she was headmistress of the Northampton School for Girls . |
| 3 | ‘ My friends are concerned that nothing seems to be happening . ’ |
| 4 | They want to see the elimination of the use of knives in crimes of violence , but their approach is that the law is adequate to deal with the problem and that nothing needs to be changed . |
| 5 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 6 | I think that everyone had to be rescued by a motor boat as we drifted helplessly around , vainly splashing at the water with these pieces of wood . |
| 7 | But the thing that everyone leaves with are memories of a special holiday experience that remains vivid long after the tan has faded . |
| 8 | This I now of course understand , that everyone has to be careful of any drug smugglers . |
| 9 | Alexander said that everyone wants to be right but no one stops to think whether their idea of right is in fact right . |
| 10 | Yet , despite all this , Baxter wrote , ‘ not one that I hear of are fallen off or forsake their uprightness ’ . |
| 11 | The natural justification of my choice between the fruit would be something like ‘ The peach looked delicious ’ , which conveys the full information that I expected to be responding in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ until the last trace of the flavour faded from my mouth . |
| 12 | And the form that I return to is the form of human being , erm , that 's the form that I have and whatever individuates Socrates from Plato erm is not a matter of the form because they have exactly the same form . |
| 13 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 14 | ‘ I have to admit that I prefer to be in charge of any given situation . |
| 15 | One of the most interesting cases that Maureen came across that I knew of was a peregrine falcon . |
| 16 | ‘ I could find nothing that I knew to be untrue . |
| 17 | And I found many details that I knew to be true . |
| 18 | Not that I mean to be cynical , but I do teach in an inner-city school ( where only Advanced Level pupils have textbooks — and they share — and where practical work involves half-a-dozen to a bunsen ) . |
| 19 | Here is a signature that I know to be genuine , on a document guaranteeing his overdraft of over twenty years ago , signed in my presence . |
| 20 | The earliest general discussions that I know of are in the works of 17th century philosopher , René Descartes , Rules for the Direction of the Mind and Discours de la Méthode . |
| 21 | that I know of are definitely millionaires . |
| 22 | I have been asked by several Society members what it was like to take a ride on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , and the best description that I know of is the account by the late Sir Jasper More in his book , ‘ A TALE OF TWO HOUSES ’ , published by Sir Jasper in 1978 . |
| 23 | This does not mean that I like to be led by the nose , but only that I would appreciate a little extra guidance ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know that I wish to be tossed anywhere as it happens . |
| 25 | That I take to be the situation here . |
| 26 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 27 | Going to another church ( of the Presbyterian Church of England ) my love of God came to be the central factor in my life , and aged almost sixteen I told my headmistress with quiet confidence that I wished to be ordained . |
| 28 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 29 | My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation . |
| 30 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |