Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb base] that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ALTHOUGH I agree that many industries are run better by private enterprise than by the state , I think there should only be one bank .
2 How then can the causal analysis show that I know that all men die ?
3 I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant .
4 Once you realise that some blocks need to be matched early , in order to gain access to others , things get tougher .
5 Although we believe that all birds and bats must have a common ancestor if we trace their lineages back far enough , that common ancestor was also the common ancestor of all mammals ( including ourselves ) and all birds .
6 We so much take these matters for granted that we forget that these abilities are constitutive of what we mean by ‘ higher education ’ .
7 However in this instance there is no a priori reason for binding to one rather than the other , so we assume that both sites are equally occupied .
8 Although they accept that these numbers include practising Christians unable — or unwilling — to pay the tax , they believe that most are people who have long drifted away from the church .
9 Just one suggestion worth mentioning erm one of those the er one on employment industry and commerce has now been printed and has been distributed and I hope that all members have now received .
10 At the same time , I welcomed the Indian Government 's decision to hold elections in the Punjab , and I hope that all parties there will feel able to take part .
11 We can see that the Government 's action is another nasty step towards privatisation , and I hope that both sides in Northern Ireland will unite against it .
12 This can mean that a subscriber can be charged far more than he should be and I gather that some regions even add in the hours that trainee engineers work as well .
13 She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life .
14 And I 've been the leader of of that party for the last four and half years , I am ready to step down from that , and ready to take up this challenge , and I believe that those experiences , and what I 've done there , will stand me in good stead .
15 And I feel that many solicitors do not do their job they do not explain fully to the purchaser what they are taking on .
16 We carefully considered that issue , and I agree that many parents would have been reluctant to allow their children to serve with the armed forces at such a young age if homosexuality had been allowed .
17 Human beings have certain needs , certain problems , and I think that all religions in their own way have found ways of coping with those problems as different languages may differ grammatically , and they 're all trying to help people do the same thing .
18 I mean I think part of being a proper professional means that one does attempt to evaluate what one is doing , and I think that most teachers do do this .
19 But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber .
20 I was trying to suggest that instead of actually definitely writing novels with a very straightforward moral theme , the theme of the novel being that you must do this or terrible things will happen , instead of doing that erm she is anxious to write novels which show you moral possibilities , that somebody or other may actually get into difficulty because they fail to understand something about somebody else and I think that these novels are intended to tell people more about themselves that erm they might otherwise realize .
21 And you say that some others protected you ? ’
22 It may seem easier if you remember that all parents have to do just this when they change a baby 's nappies , wipe the baby 's bottom , and ensure it is clean and dry .
23 If you think that these approaches will make matters worse , it may simply be better to ask for a transfer or move to new pastures .
24 In all cases except FEDV this criterion is satisfied since all other variables are dated t - 1 or earlier , and we assume that such variables are in agents ' information sets .
25 And we believe that several murders have been as a result of that sort of tension .
26 It seems unlikely that an intrauterine device would suppress the symptoms of endometriosis , and we suspect that many women with a device who develop the clinical features of endometriosis ( pain , bleeding , palpable pelvic masses ) are treated by removal of the device rather than by laparoscopy or laparotomy .
27 If we assume that some investors within each group were " not interested " in an activity made more profitable by the construction of a canal but only in dividends or , after 1790 , in speculative profit , and that this was almost wholly true of women investors , substantially so of the clergy and of the majority of those from the professions , then it is clear that overall at least a quarter of investment in canals was drawn from a net cast unprecedentedly widely .
28 If we assume that these vehicles have an operational life of five years , and that 10 per cent is an agreed discount rate , then this scheme should produce benefits in net present value terms of approximately £2.8 million .
29 Second , if we accept that such adjectives , unlike predicate qualifiers , are genuinely equivalent to a modified clause in conjunction with the noun phrase which they follow , then it is entirely predictable that this construction will demand , as the preceding main verb , one which customarily supports a predication expressed in an explicit subordinate clause ; this will not , however , be demanded of the verb preceding a predicate qualifier .
30 Even if we agree that these kinds of assumptions have some general validity , the questions that then stem from them are equally complex .
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