Example sentences of "[verb] that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Mayday was transmitted , but it later transpired that this had not been heard , probably due to a simultaneous transmission from another aircraft . |
| 2 | She found herself praying that this batch would be more to his liking than the last . |
| 3 | Everyone is praying that this time it will be third time lucky . |
| 4 | And the Sharlott family is praying that this time he leaves the crosses alone . |
| 5 | A Christian would argue that the life of Christ represents the Absolute ‘ entering into ’ human history , whilst denying that this meant God Himself was subject to change . |
| 6 | There is no denying that this is a severe problem . |
| 7 | But there 's no denying that this is an important event — or , to be more exact , an important set of nine events . |
| 8 | While not denying that this has an important role to play in any science , it is not clear that it is the method responsible for the discovery of natural laws . |
| 9 | Now what will happen is erm , erm there are signs of which is happening abroad already , that people will go from the United States , other parts of the world , they will fly in and they will fly into Frankfurt and they will erm fly into other European erm airports and Heathrow relative to others will begin to lose it 's position , and therefore from a national point of view , from an economic point of view , it is very important that Heathrow does sort of maintain er it 's er position and nobody 's denying that this may have some sort of , erm er important erm environmental erm dis dispendant and er if stick by them if you you 're going to . |
| 10 | It is strange to relate that this well-known symbol has been comparatively neglected by social scientists and especially by social psychologists . |
| 11 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 12 | The flicker of anguish in the man 's eyes made Lindsey wonder if that was entirely true , for him at least , but she found herself marvelling that this tiny woman could appear so calm . |
| 13 | The government initially claimed that it had no prior notice of the Commission 's intention to initiate proceedings , but it was later disclosed that this had been the subject of correspondence between the Commission and the Department of Transport . |
| 14 | It is generally supposed that this is because he is on his death-bed , and his gift of making conversation has already ebbed away . |
| 15 | Generally , however , it is supposed that this was not possible . |
| 16 | The duties of a Resident , Temple asseverated , were such as to give ‘ opportunities for the exertion of any degree of administrative capacity , tact , and industry ’ , and , amplifying : ‘ It may readily be supposed that this keeping in touch with the people without impairing the authority of the Emir and consequently of the whole native administration , is no easy task , and one on which any amount of administrative tact and ability can be exerted . ’ |
| 17 | It can not be supposed that this regulation meant that , in each case , the minister in person should direct his mind to the matter . |
| 18 | To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from . |
| 19 | The studies from Nigeria suggest that this failure may be as much to do with the character and personality traits of the generation of entrepreneurs who developed their businesses in the 1960s . |
| 20 | Metalworking remains at Sardis in Turkey suggest that this process , called ‘ parting ’ , was employed there in the sixth century BC to refine gold from the river Pactolus . |
| 21 | They suggest that this may be through the perceived control an individual has over his goals , as compared to that when goals are externally assigned . |
| 22 | Could we not , for instance , suggest that this God felt human beings would only be able to show the sort of moral commitment that He considered desirable if they were uncertain that He existed ? |
| 23 | Two trends in philosophy suggest that this might be so . |
| 24 | However , the disruptions in chronology and the mixture of writings suggest that this is far from being a reactionary return to a more traditional form ; indeed , these two works are grouped under the title Romanesques , further contravening the reader 's conventional expectations of an autobiography as a revelation of some truth . |
| 25 | Some researchers suggest that this environmental scanning process might best be achieved by developing especially organised environmental scanning units that are positioned towards the top of an organisation 's hierarchy . |
| 26 | A number of developments suggest that this pessimistic attitude should be re-examined . |
| 27 | R. W. Gibson and J. A. Pickett of Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden believe their discovery to be the first example of a food crop plant using insect pheromones in this way , and suggest that this mode of protection could be introduced to cultivated species ( Nature . |
| 28 | While programmers have not been able to do that the results they have achieved suggest that this may not be such a good idea . |
| 29 | The NRPB figures suggest that this ‘ small percentage ’ may be some 30–40 per cent of the population . |
| 30 | Ruth Muschel and her colleagues at the US National Cancer Institute and at Yale , reporting this discovers in Science ( vol 219 , p 853 ) , suggest that this may mean that some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain kinds of tumour . |