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

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1 There was no indication that they , unlike the aggro leaders , were actively engaged in inciting other fans to join in the scraps or that they led concerted attacks against the opposition .
2 Sometimes they possessed knowledge about sex , but could not admit that this was sexual , or that they had those sorts of desires .
3 It is hard , after a lifetime of sharing disappointments and problems with a parent , to find that they are no longer capable of sustaining conversation , that their memory is failing or that they have little interest in things outside their own immediate situation .
4 Secondly , on the issue of the precedents for making a defendant prove his defence in the way in which the Bill requires , I argue that every year — certainly since I have been in the House — we have created numerous new offences which have defences attached to them , usually for those who can show that they acted reasonably or that they used due diligence to ensure that they avoided committing an offence .
5 The problem is , however , that it is of little help in producing a list of user needs : the temptation would be to say either that everyone requires the same information or that everyone requires different information ; the former would make the exercise redundant and the latter would make it impossible to handle .
6 It was an inconsequential remark but she hoped it might lead to some interesting revelation on Ianthe 's part , that Bishop Heber had been an ancestor or that she loved Victorian poetry , for , looking at the bookshelves , she was sure that she did .
7 There have been suggestions that James owed Gowrie a great deal of money , and contrived the incident to rid himself of the debt ; or that he had homosexual designs on the young man , and had murderously silenced him when rejected .
8 Did you know , for instance , that I led Birdman on Kilnsey Crag , or that I spent several days top-roping and practising Zero on Idwal 's Suicide Wall ?
9 I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls .
10 I can assert of the oldest tree in the park ( if there is such a tree ) that it is an oak , but I can also say of the sentence " The oldest tree in the park is an oak " that it means the same , or that it expresses same thought as , say , its French or Chinese translation , irrespective of whether it says anything true .
11 Secondly , there is nothing to suggest that using two languages detracts from either one of them or that it produces continued interference .
12 I am , I regret , unable to agree that the judgment of the court beyond this or that , in so far as it was obiter in the context in which it was delivered , can be supported or that it binds this court .
13 Society might judge that this severely reduced the welfare of citizens in remote areas or that it promoted regional dissent which reduced the sense of national unity .
14 Whether this means that life originated just once , or that it originated many times , each origin acquiring a different code , but that one origin gave rise to more successful competitors , we do not know .
15 For preference shares may often be virtually indistinguishable from debentures except that they afford less assurance of getting one 's money back or a return on it until one does .
16 On the return of No. 16 to Sutton , the remainder of the J type were sent to Hendon one at a time and similarly rebuilt , except that they retained four windows .
17 Except that you admitted last night that you do n't lead an absolutely pure life yourself , I could almost believe that you 're one of those buttoned-up celibates , offended by the mere idea of any sort of relationship , even if it 's between other people . ’
18 Although there is no contemporary account of his methods , except that he surveyed several stretches of coastline from a boat , in general his maps are impressively accurate and much more detailed than anything previously available for most parts of Ireland .
19 ‘ I ca n't remember after that , except that he drank several cups of coffee , and some wine and some water after he returned to the table .
20 A solitary predator it resembled the grey wolf , except that it had two horns — one long ivory one in the centre of its forehead , and the other a squat and curved tusk at the tip of its nose .
21 When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit .
22 Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination .
23 What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two .
24 Well , I did it alone , just with the help of Crossroads , and the district nurse in , in the mornings , five days a week and really that is all the help I had , except that I get domestic staff myself , and any help that I need , I have to pay for .
25 Whereas that was one group that had the same number in fact more than that we had ninety people there .
26 Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ?
27 Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed .
28 Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress .
29 And that we proivide good quality education for students of 17 to 22 years … and it gets their attention
30 We must remember that we are a great nation and that we have great spirit .
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