Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that editor were here tonight , I would love to issue a challenge to him : if someone tells you that the Royal Bank increases any customer 's charge without prior notice , he 's wrong . |
| 2 | Check it ; if someone tells you that the Royal Bank , because of the experiences of the recession , is no longer interested in lending to viable businesses — large or small — he 's wrong . |
| 3 | Check it ; and if someone tells you that the Royal Bank is now only interested in improving its bottom line , and no longer cares about people at all , he 's wrong . |
| 4 | He is still talking in terms of a new career , rather than retiring , and this is not surprising in view of the work ethic , which tells us that the only ‘ proper ’ way for a man to spend his time is in productive employment and makes it very difficult for men to take up interests purely for the enjoyment . |
| 5 | It amazes me that the fine for moving a seat reservation card is actually more that the one for pulling the communication cord . |
| 6 | IF IT worries you that the national survey on sexual habits is not going to take place , you could take comfort from the thought that it probably wo n't make a vast amount of difference in the long run . |
| 7 | First , it tells us that the basic currency of the industry is not bits and bytes and the complex trappings of electronic technology . |
| 8 | He tells me that the National Front 's ‘ a load of rubbish ’ , that politicians are ‘ a waste of time ’ and that when he sees his nan , … ‘ she 's always on about me getting a job . |
| 9 | He tells us that the Foreign Secretary occupied a first-floor room overlooking the park , as did his private secretary and the Précis Writer . |
| 10 | Second he tells us that the classical paradises , which you can read about it in ancient authors , none of them are as fine as the Garden of Eden . |
| 11 | But , he said : ‘ When I see how well the Neighbourhood House is being used it annoys me that the obvious move to expand the service is thwarted by lack of cash . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It pains me that the public hold chemical company executives in no higher esteem than estate agents , lawyers or even sitting members of Parliament ’ . |
| 13 | But more immediately it reminds us that the imperial invaders played the role of the Persians ; that Barbarossa 's efforts systematically to reduce the cities of the north — and less systematically , those of Tuscany and Umbria — led to the formation of the First Lombard League ; and that the long struggle with the Hohenstaufen was one of the preludes to the formation of the civic empires which dominated late medieval Italy . |
| 14 | It reminds us that the National Curriculum is not the whole educational experience of a child . |
| 15 | It is salutary to begin our exploration of English mysticism with Rolle , because he reminds us that the mystical experiment could lead the unwary into all kinds of spiritual and physical dangers or to a sterile solipsism . |
| 16 | It strikes me that the transformed cladists have changed little except the words . |
| 17 | It strikes me that the whole phenomenon is in the same position as the ecology movement in the early Eighties , when it was associated with people with beards and woolly jumpers who drank Real Ale . |