Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If that is the case I imagine that more Scots will wish to take advantage of trust status .
2 With practice I learned that those flames instantly settled down to a proper blue flame .
3 Now what if I support in the main the aims of the Act , there are one or two areas I think that some things are not a good idea .
4 For example , Christine Horton ( 1989 ) told the conference she regretted that many aspects of policing had a symbolic role which were not conducive to quantitative measures and were difficult to present with absolute objectivity .
5 But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously .
6 On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ .
7 After the meeting he insisted that both governments would keep searching for ways to convene a conference and declared that the " process is not stuck " .
8 But in both cases we find that these molecules are expressed at the correct developmental stage and localize normally to the putative NMJ sites in the absence of the motor neuron ( Fig. 1 ) .
9 However , when there was a conflict it appears that both interpretations were considered , and that it took a considerable amount of time to resolve the conflict .
10 From a very early age we discover that some children are better at drawing , speaking or running than we are ; so much for the myth that we are born equal .
11 PLEASE put across the vital role that ‘ guinea pigs ’ perform and although the date clashes unavoidably with the A.G.M. we hope that some class-members will be willing to channel their efforts on behalf of the Examination candidates .
12 Eschewing strategic analysis in favour of a more polemical approach he argued that these concessions were to be used as ‘ trans-shipping points for American combat units that are to carry out punitive operations against the peoples of the Near and Middle East , as well as in Africa ’ .
13 Dr Vanezis he estimated that these injuries were between two and four weeks old .
14 Secondly , when the Department asked about the balance and breadth of the curriculum it found that few authorities encouraged schools to discuss the issues and it was mainly through routine visits of advisers that concern for balance and breadth was promoted .
15 DURING my introduction I said that some Regions are better placed than others to increase their growth rate .
16 However , when we look at continuous speech in English utterances we find that these tones can only be identified on a small number of particularly prominent syllables .
17 ‘ By changing the specification they ensure that those garments are made specially for them .
18 In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking .
19 From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby .
20 In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well !
21 When records are filed under this system it means that all documents relating to the subject are brought together under one heading , for example :
22 About this time I noticed that those crews who consistently got aiming point pictures on the bomb plots issued by HQ Bomber Command after each raid were never selected for PFF .
23 You could n't call Tom Russell 's sister pretty , Belinda decided , but at the same time she knew that most men would be instantly attracted to Mrs Hamilton and would call her beautiful .
24 Often a mother can understand her daughter 's needs , if not in detail at least in broad terms , and at the same time she knows that these needs are in conflict with traditional honour and respectability .
25 Mario Mieli quotes an unnamed gay writer : ‘ we [ gay men ] demand our ‘ femininity' ’ , the same thing that women reject , and at the same time we declare that these roles are devoid of sense' ( Homosexuality and Liberation , 46 ) .
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