Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If that is the case I imagine that more Scots will wish to take advantage of trust status .
2 With practice I learned that those flames instantly settled down to a proper blue flame .
3 For example , Christine Horton ( 1989 ) told the conference she regretted that many aspects of policing had a symbolic role which were not conducive to quantitative measures and were difficult to present with absolute objectivity .
4 On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ .
5 After the meeting he insisted that both governments would keep searching for ways to convene a conference and declared that the " process is not stuck " .
6 However , when there was a conflict it appears that both interpretations were considered , and that it took a considerable amount of time to resolve the conflict .
7 From a very early age we discover that some children are better at drawing , speaking or running than we are ; so much for the myth that we are born equal .
8 PLEASE put across the vital role that ‘ guinea pigs ’ perform and although the date clashes unavoidably with the A.G.M. we hope that some class-members will be willing to channel their efforts on behalf of the Examination candidates .
9 Eschewing strategic analysis in favour of a more polemical approach he argued that these concessions were to be used as ‘ trans-shipping points for American combat units that are to carry out punitive operations against the peoples of the Near and Middle East , as well as in Africa ’ .
10 Secondly , when the Department asked about the balance and breadth of the curriculum it found that few authorities encouraged schools to discuss the issues and it was mainly through routine visits of advisers that concern for balance and breadth was promoted .
11 DURING my introduction I said that some Regions are better placed than others to increase their growth rate .
12 ‘ By changing the specification they ensure that those garments are made specially for them .
13 From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby .
14 When records are filed under this system it means that all documents relating to the subject are brought together under one heading , for example :
15 About this time I noticed that those crews who consistently got aiming point pictures on the bomb plots issued by HQ Bomber Command after each raid were never selected for PFF .
16 You could n't call Tom Russell 's sister pretty , Belinda decided , but at the same time she knew that most men would be instantly attracted to Mrs Hamilton and would call her beautiful .
17 Often a mother can understand her daughter 's needs , if not in detail at least in broad terms , and at the same time she knows that these needs are in conflict with traditional honour and respectability .
18 Mario Mieli quotes an unnamed gay writer : ‘ we [ gay men ] demand our ‘ femininity' ’ , the same thing that women reject , and at the same time we declare that these roles are devoid of sense' ( Homosexuality and Liberation , 46 ) .
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