Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It very rarely happens that you take several fish in one period and then nothing for the remainder of the time you spend on the water . |
| 2 | He says that they teach young people how to work as a team . |
| 3 | He says that they need skilled staff — there are n't enough being trained . |
| 4 | ‘ The budget simply reflects that we have fewer people out of work about 30 per cent less than in 1987 . |
| 5 | Mr Gavron cheerfully admits that he has more staff than he needs to handle the currently depressed workload . |
| 6 | Sometimes an extremely simple technique is sufficient — for example Coveney ( 1986 ) reports that he obtained enough data to allow him to study quantitatively different ways of expressing future time in the French verb , simply by asking speakers about their plans for the future . |
| 7 | This suggests that he had bigger fish to fry — and indeed he had . |