Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Here he accepts that his own grammatical categories may be questionable , but insists that his study confirms the belief that there exists a grammar of narrative , and moreover that there is a fundamental similarity between language and narrative which is mutually illuminating .
2 Nevertheless , if his discovery is less original than he claimed , he rightly says that his novel analyses the mechanism of involuntary memory in unique detail .
3 The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it .
4 ‘ This shows that my family owned the land , ’ she said with a simplicity that might have left even a lawyer silent .
5 They have no power to take any action and it appears that their potential to increase the level of accountability and to develop policing by consent is minimal .
6 Even so , King argues that his theory has the advantage of also explaining why a lump-sum grant has less of an impact on local spending than does an equal value-matching grant — another result evident in empirical work .
7 In contrast , McKinsey claims that its matrix covers the complete life-cycle , as illustrated by figures 4.3 and 4.4 .
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