Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] that [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work .
2 Even in notation , the differences in musical language between orally transmitted ‘ folk ’ song , printed bourgeois song and recorded rock song come through : they hardly need comment , except to say that they do fit many of the stereotypes of the neo-McLuhanite model ( see Ex. 3.1 ) .
3 But I I would slip back to my normal gloomy cautious self , and say that we do need to balance the years of deficit we have had , with years of surplus , we need to look at N C V O's finances over a longer term , than simply one year .
4 And provided that he did have a ‘ residence ’ ( or ‘ abode ’ , the concept used in other contexts ) there , in which he spent a substantial part of the year , it would not be necessary for him to be physically present there for the whole three-month period prior to the qualifying date .
5 He loved Stanley , and thought that he dared do things he would n't dare do himself . ’
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