Example sentences of "[conj] that [pron] have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lord Chief Justice had said then that it would be wrong for it to appear that the proposals had the backing of the judges or that they had had any hand in their preparation ; and that it was essential that the judges remained at arm 's length . |
| 2 | If religion is less significant than it used to be in modern societies , it may be that the emotional issues are resolved too , or that they have found other modes of expression , in the arts and entertainments , and in political movements . |
| 3 | Or that she had drunk one glass too many ? |
| 4 | Conveyancing documents should include a certificate by the purchaser saying either that he had been fully advised by a wholly independent practitioner or that he had declined such advice — and the certificate should contain a prominent ‘ health warning ’ against declining to take it . |
| 5 | He thought my parents were pressurising me to dress this way , or that I 'd gone mad . |
| 6 | Nora 's virtual command , reinforced by her petulant departure , had no bearing — except that she had taken all the pleasure out of it for him . |
| 7 | Like a great eft [ newt ] … except that it 's got nine holes around its mouth … and bodes no good … |
| 8 | ‘ Except that I have lost one of my shoes . |
| 9 | We hope we have contributed to the debate surrounding human aggression in a constructive and novel way ; and that we have raised some questions surrounding a number of basic notions that have remained unexamined by both the scientific and lay communities . |
| 10 | Does not that remark demonstrate that we never had an independent nuclear deterrent , as neither President Yeltsin nor anyone else in the Soviet Union accepted it as a deterrent ; and that we have poured tens of billions of pounds down the drain trying to maintain that mystique ? |
| 11 | Belfast Crown Court heard that the couple 's six-year relationship had been stormy and that they had hit each other on numerous occasions . |
| 12 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 13 | Will the Minister confirm that the present Government have introduced higher taxes than any other Government , and that they have increased national insurance contributions for those on average and low pay by a massive 40 per cent ? |
| 14 | What is likely to matter most when someone is buying your product is a quite vague general impression that it is familiar and that they have heard good of it somewhere : not an explicit memory of an ad . |
| 15 | We did discover , however , that one called Mait — his officially registered name is Gilles Lemaitre — has built up a small but powerful network of his own , and that they have performed many cochon gris ceremonies . ’ |
| 16 | I am glad that after two years inspectors were appointed , and that they have expended 18 months upon investigating the take-over of House of Fraser . |
| 17 | It is of interest that the positive tumours in the present series were both ‘ large ’ polyps 2 cm in size , and that one had undergone focal malignant transformation . |
| 18 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
| 19 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 20 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 21 | The arrest of three police officers and two military captains who had been members of the elite UESAT unit of the Panamanian Defence Forces commanded by the former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega , led to suggestions that a serious coup attempt had been intended , and that it had enjoyed wide support from the police . |
| 22 | ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 . |
| 23 | And I says only that he 's gone to back to J J and I says , and that he 'd had enough . |
| 24 | In spite of Hutchinson 's claims that he had 20,000 members in the Mansfield district , and large numbers of followers in Lancashire and other industrial areas , and that he had printed hundreds of thousands of copies of the National Worker , there was no evidence that he had any members in his organization . |
| 25 | At last the ordeal ceased — so abruptly that Lexandro imagined that his body had evaporated , vanished , and that he had become pure spirit . |
| 26 | A 16 year old who spoke at a Young Enterprise presentation admitted that he was not much of a public speaker and that he had become disaffected with school where he had ‘ failed ’ regularly . |
| 27 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to exact vengeance on Clinton , Nichols had issued a federal lawsuit which claimed that the Governor had had extra-marital affairs with at least five women , and that he had misused official funds in entertaining them . |
| 28 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 29 | He realized that we felt disgusted at what had been achieved in the commandos and that he had had this brainwave of small parties behind the lines . ’ |
| 30 | The Slovak parliament 's defence and security committee alleged that Meciar was registered with the security police or StB from 1985 and that he had removed incriminating evidence and promoted loyal former agents in the Slovak Interior Ministry after November 1989 . |