Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] that [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We close with a cautionary note : one should bear in mind that a source of potential confusion always present is the fact that certain verbs lend themselves to occurrence with more than one type of adjectival construction , and to illustrate let us observe that any of the following , with their different modes of interpretation , are fully acceptable sentences of English : ( 72 ) Mackay preferred the picture stolen ( postnominal attributive ) ( 73 ) Shelagh prefers her holidays adventurous ( predicate qualifier ) ( 74 ) we prefer the king ( to be ) beheaded ( clausal ) |
| 2 | Correct me if I 'm wrong , but I distinctly heard you say that some of my designs were n't quite suitable . ’ |
| 3 | First , reports reaching me indicate that many of those LEAs that were not coping have now cleared their backlogs . |
| 4 | Sorry , I thought you said that each of them was in all the rest of them and each of them was coloured by the host . |
| 5 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 6 | If the notes of elderly patients alleged to have died from asthma are examined it seems that most of them had fixed airways obstruction , with little evidence of having had asthma , and that most died of something else . |
| 7 | As these books are supposed to be read by adults to children , I do n't think it matters that some of the jokes are probably lost on four year olds . |
| 8 | If we are making up a play about the " Keeper of the Keys " , why do you think that neither of them can see ? |
| 9 | Good gracious , ’ she breathed , ‘ if you really do believe that Rob and I are conducting some sultry little affair , do you think that either of us would be fool enough to use an office which adjoins yours ? ’ |
| 10 | Do you think that any of them any of those six were in bade taste you know not not really not really very pleasant shall we say ? |
| 11 | Why do you think that most of the people in this room do n't read newspapers ? |
| 12 | " When he was asked " Do you deny that any of them were forcibly evicted ? " he answered " I deny that any were forcibly evicted . |
| 13 | Hence Jacques Derrida 's influential concept of ‘ différance ’ ( translated in English as at once difference and deferral ) , a concept enabling us to ‘ reconsider all the pairs of opposites on which philosophy is constructed and on which our discourse lives , not in order to see opposition erase itself but to see what indicates that each of the terms must appear as the différance of the other , as the other different and deferred in the economy of the same ’ . |
| 14 | Does she agree that some of our overseas development programmes have been vitiated by the rise in population in some of the countries concerned ? |
| 15 | In this context , Greenpeace said it believed that some of the sprays were dangerous , and pointed out that they were banned in several countries . |
| 16 | Erm my reference was in part to the Secretary of State 's notice of approval of the last alteration of the structure plan , where he said he accepted that some of the provision York provision would have to made outside the ci city boundaries . |
| 17 | There are 27 women deacons in the Chester Diocese at the moment and diocesan spokesman , Rev Tim Barker , said he anticipated that many of them would want to be ordained . |
| 18 | Does he realise that many of our citizens would like to know whether and how much Mr. Vijau Mallya , an Indian millionaire , and Mr. Adam Polemos , a Greek shipping magnate , contributed to the funds of the Conservative party ? — |
| 19 | Does he realise that some of these homes er are perhaps have only half their beds full which means that there are vulnerable people there , uncertain as to whether their home , their only home is going to remain er in existence . |
| 20 | Does he accept that many of the constituents of his hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich ( Mr. Irvine ) face losing their houses if they do not receive the full pension ? |
| 21 | How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language ? |