Example sentences of "[verb] that [pos pn] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That band is Nirvana , and if you 're one of the 12 million owners of their last album , Nevermind , you 'll know that their radical reworking of what was heavy metal into what is now grunge has completely destroyed the old image of the moronic metal band . |
| 2 | A classless society would no doubt constitute subjects who ( like Miss Beale and Miss Buss ) , would be different from us , but they would be constituted nonetheless , and could not know that their own conviction of being unexploited was not mistaken . |
| 3 | Er to let you know that your Labour members of parliament in Nottinghamshire as a whole er are backing the campaign . |
| 4 | After all , how do we know that our own picture of Jesus is necessarily right , especially when we realize that we too bring assumptions to faith ? |
| 5 | All Qualified Teachers attending the Coburg Course are reminded that their final payment of £170 is due by the end of the month . |
| 6 | It was at least gratifying to know that his initial dislike of the young man had been justified . |
| 7 | They found that their only means of illumination was the collection of antique paraffin lamps and that there was only one boiler — which worked intermittently . |
| 8 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 9 | Astronomers can calculate when such maxima of solar insolation took place , and Fairbanks found that his two phases of accelerated run-off do not correlate with the maxima . |
| 10 | He found that his ready command of French , Italian , German , Turkish , Arabic , Greek , and Albanian , and his personal friendship with many of the key figures in the area , made his presence invaluable to the commander-in-chief , although eyebrows were sometimes raised at his unremittingly pro-Turkish stance . |
| 11 | By now you will have gathered that our famous range of 3,000 carpet options is just part of the Allied home furnishing collection . |
| 12 | Like when someone says that the records you love are just plastic junk and they are the sort of people who read and rake in all that shit in the daily papers , then it makes me think that my daily intake of media is far superior to theirs . |
| 13 | I would think that your rubbishy version of WordPerfect is thinking it 's an H P Laserjet . |
| 14 | Perhaps young people perceive that our current values of the pursuit of wealth and power are hollow and react accordingly . |
| 15 | We may extend this metaphor further by suggesting that our everyday experience of stress is rather like a tap which is placed over the glass and into which it drips drops of stress . |
| 16 | It would not be quite true to claim that his wide experience of light music , and the strain of singing long parts , with numerous encores , throughout the week left no mark on either his style or his vocal chords ; but he can be justly likened to two other similarly popular tenors , John McCormack and Tito Schipa , in his ability to return successfully to serious music until the end of his career . |
| 17 | Astonishingly the Commission failed to realize that its proposed ratio of one additional member for three constituency members would be inadequate . |
| 18 | Darwin 's theory played a major catalytic role in converting the world to evolutionism , but historians have begun to realize that our conventional image of the ‘ Darwinian revolution ’ is an oversimplification inspired by modern biologists ' enthusiasm for the concept of natural selection . |
| 19 | Certainly he believed that his inner feeling of being most alive , most engaged with real issues , in his contemplative experience , was a gift from God and that his whole integrity depended on his furthering a life-style which he believed enabled him to receive the gift , however strong the opposition he encountered : Above all else I have always longed to sit and concentrate on Christ , and him alone … |
| 20 | These changes have very real implications for librarians , who must ensure that their initial trawl of new publications is comprehensive , since they are less likely to pick up , through a later stock revision , titles they have initially missed . |
| 21 | Undaunted , Manalula says that her skilled team of nurses and public-health personnel ‘ aim to educate participants on issues such as contraceptives , public hygiene and moral support , apart from the material gains ’ . |
| 22 | Intel Corp has decided that its 1989 acquisition of universal communications processor manufacturer Jupiter Technology Inc ( UX No 240 ) was a mistake , and it is letting the company go in a management buyout backed by a private investment group . |
| 23 | The calf was in such bad condition that it was decided that its only chance of survival was to transfer it to Colombo Zoo for treatment . |
| 24 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 25 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 26 | The restlessness showed in her face , she realised despondently , looking at her own pale-faced reflection the following morning , and remembering that her entire collection of cosmetics was still stowed in the stranded car . |
| 27 | As an established agent , I have to remember that our big acts of today were our little ones of yesterday . |
| 28 | Through these kinds of dramas ( the wage negotiation annual one ) the remainder of workers can feel that their uncomfortable feelings of anger and paranoia are being dealt with so they can continue to hold the position of withdrawal , thus avoiding the pain of their real feelings . |
| 29 | It has already been said that your daily programme of language learning should include the ingredients of listening , mimicking , practice ( drilling ) and participating . |
| 30 | How , I wonder , do conventional evolutionists imagine that their primaeval world of pure plant life existed in the absence of all other species ? |