Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hospital authorities are therefore asked to do their best to see that all cases of attempted suicide brought to hospital receive psychiatric investigation before discharge . ’ |
| 2 | Mammoth road signs do their best to ensure that such oversights do not occur . |
| 3 | Are we right to think that this system , if system it can be called , is unsatisfactory ? |
| 4 | Coun Jim Knowles said : ‘ We all knew that this proposal would not go through , and it is now clear that we should not be pursuing a policy of closing schools . ’ |
| 5 | We all knew that this carnage was the work of Unionist Fascists bent on teaching the Republic a lesson — stay out of our affairs . |
| 6 | We all know that all sorts of manipulations take place during the appointment of the members of a Committee . |
| 7 | We all know that this year the Government had to raise £6.8 billion — £500 million more than that . |
| 8 | ‘ We all know that these measures exist , ’ said the ACE director , Andrew Warren . |
| 9 | We all believe that this development is made possible by the ability to transfer information through the use of language , which enables man to utilise the knowledge of his forebears , and the knowledge of other men in other cultures . |
| 10 | When you 're keen to push something through , summarise at regular intervals : ‘ So are we at the point where we 've got agreement over this ? ’ or ‘ Can I ask if we all accept that more money is needed ? ’ |
| 11 | To see that increases , we first observe that this sum is just the sum of all the dual variables of the AP viewed as a TRP . |
| 12 | They all knew that some gases were skin absorbable . |
| 13 | If we had n't heard so much about him from Robert , we 'd find it impossible to imagine that this bloke was anything but the most upright of citizens . ’ |
| 14 | I find it hard to believe that this amount would be likely to deter someone from participating in a tournament . |
| 15 | Nowhere in Thucydides ' account is it safe to think that this expression includes the Spartans , and in the operations in the Megarid the Corinthians , and only the Corinthians , are mentioned by name on the Peloponnesian side . |
| 16 | As it is now the middle of October , I do not think it unreasonable to request that some action be taken in this matter as soon as possible . |
| 17 | If a third of the adult population viewed reading with so little enthusiasm , was it any wonder that many children were doubtful as to its worth ? |
| 18 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 19 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 20 | The court held that the practice of making first offers of work to a selected group of people who had declared themselves available , and the practice of declaring oneself available to ensure that such offers would be made , whilst an arrangement " of mutual advantage " to the parties , was not one involving contractual commitments or mutual obligation . |