Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It is distinct from the methods of the old New Criticism , which though believing that lyric poems were dramatic utterances , still read them as the utterance of a single voice .
2 We are grateful to you and hope that this year our theme will capture the imagination of all our supporters .
3 He looked at her and made that queer sound in his throat .
4 Some kind of realism is important whether the movie itself is ‘ realistic ’ in reflecting the real world more or less as we perceive it or believe that other people do , or whether it is clearly a fantasy of some kind , set in the future or the distant past or another galaxy or in a present where some of the rules have been changed or abolished , eg time travel is possible , robot androids pass for human , most of the population are zombies , animals speak English , people mix with cartoon characters , or what you will .
5 In the end , he told me , he got quite good at it and reckoned that this form of involuntary pitch training was responsible for the fact that he had a good musical ear now .
6 Borrowing and taxation were inseparably linked in these schemes , and the merchants would use their monopolistic powers to enrich themselves and ensure that sufficient cash was available to satisfy the king 's need for loans .
7 The trouble is that the Scottish Education Department disagrees with both of us and insists that religious observance must not only be reinstated but also reinforced .
  Next page