Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | It is difficult knowing how far to credit such stories in twelfth-century sources , although given that the Ramsey chronicle is recording the history of its own house , and that the Peterborough source refers to trouble there at the same time , it is reasonable to believe that trouble of some sort there was . |
| 3 | Despite this reserve , the figure of Oedipus has made much more impact upon the theory of male development than has that of Electra upon female development . |
| 4 | He would rather died on the spot than endure that pain again . |
| 5 | As environmental health officers become more aware of the implications of poor canopy design , manufacture and maintenance , and their own staffing levels and training improve , many kitchen operators are in for a very rude and expensive awakening ( in most cases the cost of replacing an inefficient system is considerably higher than fitting that same system from the outset ) . |
| 6 | I 'd rather sleep in the gutter than let that happen . |
| 7 | No , they would rather lick stones for salt than let that villain , that coward , that son-of-a-jackass and a sow get away with … . |
| 8 | He had a physical strength that more than matched that outward appearance . |
| 9 | I have more than made that point in my submission . |
| 10 | I 'd rather walk down the road naked than put that thing on . ’ |
| 11 | And er I do n't think that Donovan did anything other than to enhance that . |
| 12 | I can do no more for his memory than to extend that same faith to his son . ’ |
| 13 | He knew better than to leave that behind . |
| 14 | Now we 're fortunate with with this that if I turn it on it 's very quiet but if any of you had and I 'm sure Jeff you 've probably seen it where you get some older machines and the fan in there rattles like mad and there 's nothing worse than having that thing rattling all all the day . |
| 15 | Although saying that one we sent out to erm |
| 16 | Erm yeah , when er rather than saying that something is a heavy mass and it move and it 's got a good acceleration you can just say it 's got good . |
| 17 | And you 'd think , Well what could be worse than lifting and carrying , and what could be more boring than doing that all day ? |
| 18 | How often are they raised by adding on a small , discrete area to existing topics ( for example , ‘ Women in … ’ ) — thereby leaving the rest untouched — rather than acknowledging that feminism has generated a challenge to the whole field ? ( see BSA , 1986 , for a discussion of teaching in higher education ) . |
| 19 | I 'd sooner have summat else than use that . |
| 20 | The national market for ales is indeed flat , but ‘ Palatinate 's ’ growth has more than offset that problem for us . |
| 21 | I would er agree actually with what I think Mr was a saying on balance , that 's it 's best to go with the bit that you 've got rather than hold that up to , to er to come back to Road later . |
| 22 | In this respect , many of us in fact reform and bend English to our needs rather than allow that language to impose itself on our realities . |
| 23 | He was deeply concerned about the need to improve social conditions ; but he concluded that the economy had the capacity for recovery and expansion to create more and better jobs and argued that government intervention was more likely to harm than to assist that process . |
| 24 | They clambered to respectability by continually putting their own house in order , and in a way the battle to bring in not only the middle classes but the religious , the political , and the serious-minded took far more energy and ingenuity than winning that initial mass audience . |
| 25 | Our actions or words may reactivate one of those hurts , but that is no more than putting that old 78 back on the gramophone . |
| 26 | She says she would rather die than do that again . |
| 27 | Better to go on as before than do that . |
| 28 | Better be dead than do that . |
| 29 | You know , sooner than do that . |
| 30 | I 've got so much to do , other than do that . |