Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 This sceptic is a hard-nosed person who claims that most people allow themselves to be persuaded by what is really rather weak evidence , but that he needs more than that to convince him .
32 A referral was received concerning an elderly woman who knew that residential care would be necessary at a future point ; she was assessed in the normal way , and placed on the waiting list .
33 I had a discussion with a middle-class Jamaican woman who argued that Jamaican women are more liberated than Western women because they are more economically active .
34 So Edward , almost alone among his fellow unfortunates who sailed that particular August , did not go to one of the great English educational establishments , but to a small academy near Dumfries .
35 Nevertheless , there are people who argue that local planning authorities ' decisions best reflect local circumstances and should not be overruled by the central Government or their appointed planning inspectors .
36 But , in general , clubs seem incapable of grasping an elementary fact that cynicism is rife among an ever-increasing number of people who believe that many players are overpaid , overrated and out of touch .
37 People who see that high training encourages success , as obviously it does for Nissan , will follow the designs and needs of the marketplace and will themselves introduce high training .
38 What was he if not the creature who circled that dark silhouette , sometimes letting a wing-tip brush the brickwork , sometimes soaring on an up-draught , better to look down , better to choose , better to fall on the prey ?
39 These decisions angered many sections of the white community , including de Klerk who said that national symbols had nothing to do with apartheid .
40 Any senior manager who recognises that difficult people constitute the most difficult part of their working life .
41 It is interesting that Cairns saw the pressure for ministers to run for office coming , not from ambitious ministers , but from party activists who thought that certain ministers would make good political leaders .
42 Silly literary prig , I thought , and how typical of a man who thinks that good writing can only be learnt from good reading to find spiritual anguish unreal .
43 Cus D'Amato , the famed trainer who shaped Tyson 's career , was dismissive of teachers who believe that tall boxers were made to jab and move , relying mostly on their reach and mobility .
44 But it was an elderly shipwright on the beach who explained that all foreigners were called that here , since the only other outsider to have lived in the village was an Englishman named Collins , who , it turned out , had spent many months here during the 1930s .
45 They were generous country girls who accept that such things happen .
46 Most , perhaps all , functionalists are thorough-going materialists who believe that mental phenomena are genuine physical phenomena seen at a particular level of abstraction .
47 The Stirlingshire farmer who claims that toxic emissions were responsible for him having to destroy his entire dairy herd was told in court today that he and his wife were to blame .
48 NEW SCIENTIST discovered a newspaper editor in the US who thought that nuclear power generated electricity contaminated the fish in his frying pan .
49 ‘ To be realistic we need other teams to slip up to sneak through in the league so the cup is really our priority , ’ says 29-goal striker David McCallen who grabbed that sensational winner against his former club Linfield in the quarter-finals .
50 architect issued penultimate and final certificates which were unpaid by employer who claimed that certain work was defective .
51 In this respect it is in agreement with those theorists who claim that social psychology should be an historical discipline .
52 ABOVE Emil Du Bois-Reymond , the 19th-century German physiologist who showed that muscular nerve impulses were a–in to electricity .
53 But in the mid-1970s things began to look more promising , with the arrival of a young new minister which coincided with movement into the area of young couples who found that older properties were the only type of house they could now afford as a first buy .
54 Now , few can afford to discard the eighties equivalent of disposable fashion , the market stall tat from East End sweat shops , but for those with the readies to spend on real flash ( these are the ones who know that LV means Louis Vuitton as well as Luncheon Voucher ) never has it been more important to make a clear and expensive statement about the level of personal well-being and survival .
55 Women who find that homosexual men make wonderful friends , may be reflecting the fact that the freedom from preoccupation with physical sex leaves the relationship wide open to a full range of shared experiences which should be enjoyed freely between heterosexual men and women too .
56 A member who considers that such principles have been breached should be careful that he does not waive or condone the breach .
57 Students who pass that initial stage will pass on to RAF or RN units for advanced training .
58 Students who discover that free fighting is their forte usually become competition-orientated .
59 16.2 The Lead Organization shall be notified in writing by any other Party who believes that any objective set out in the Proposal can not be met completely .
60 They say that social workers who attend seminars and lectures on the subject do not realise that these ideas are being promoted by Christian Fundamentalist extremists who believe that all abuse is demonic in origin .
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