Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before turning to consider the main authorities I should emphasise that Woolwich paid the principal sum under neither mistake of fact nor of law , rather did it pay under protest and take immediate action to challenge the validity of the demand . |
| 2 | From the investigation of distracting unattended words we can conclude that words are recognised before they are fixated , and that meanings might be useful in guiding our eyes efficiently across the text . |
| 3 | In other words it would mean that battles could be won which people have previously thought could not even be fought . |
| 4 | From these definitions you will see that crime and delinquency are one form of deviance ( strictly speaking , delinquency refers to anti-social and illegal behaviour , but in sociology it is usually linked with ‘ juvenile ’ and used to refer to the criminality and misconduct of youths ) . |
| 5 | For years I used to think that Shakespeare 's line , ‘ and roasted crabs hiss in the bowl ’ , was about sea-food , describing the sound of boiling water , and claws , scratching vainly against the side of a hot , bubbling pan . |
| 6 | In a few days you will hear that Stalingrad is completely in German hands . ’ |
| 7 | Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music . |
| 8 | For our present purposes we should note that Lewis ' list , like Hymes ' , makes reference to the speaker and hearer in order to assign values to the deictic categories of speaker and audience ( addressor / addressee ) realised in first and second person pronouns . |
| 9 | For present purposes we can conclude that Trotsky looked to proletarian democracy as a defence against bureaucratization . |
| 10 | But for our purposes we can say that corporatism involves cooperative arrangements between government and non-governmental groups or institutions under which the latter , either in return for some benefit or in order to avoid some disadvantage , agree to act in a way which will further government policy . |
| 11 | For the same reasons we must regret that Posidonius did not try out on Rome that ethnographical style which makes his Celts live for ever — a model to the French nation for any past and future extravagance . |
| 12 | These are the sort of things you might suggest that people give you for your birthday , Christmas or other religious celebration . |
| 13 | In general terms we can suggest that power is based upon a number of different factors : |
| 14 | Since Sartre and Althusser there have been a number of possibilities : for some , the absolute historicism of the Frankfurt School has become increasingly attractive , although in its current manifestation in the work of Habermas we might say that history has been eclipsed far more effectively than by any comparable French philosopher . |
| 15 | Now as Diana is free to return to the social world of her former friends she will realise that Lisa is rapidly becoming its new darling . |
| 16 | With all these charges you can see that PEPs are n't for short-term investors . |
| 17 | For the prospect of a retirement pension for all those presently under fifty years of age is looking distinctly forlorn we must protect the pension rights of all contributing members we must insist that trustees are elected from the shop floor and not appointed by some faceless director who may not even reside in this country . |
| 18 | Suppose I say : ( 24 ) Nigel has fourteen children I shall implicate that Nigel has only fourteen children , although it would be compatible with the truth of ( 24 ) that Nigel in fact has twenty children . |
| 19 | And I 'm sure when we do these blood tests we 'll find that things are not altogether normal , now sometimes it 's actually the way you respond to treatment that gives it away rather than |
| 20 | Among many other activities of other fellows we may record that Professor Anna Davies gave the Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures at Harvard University , that Barbara Harvey has become a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts , and Hilary Ockendon a deputy director on OCIAM , the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . |
| 21 | In the next chapters we shall see that Wordsworth 's political ideas run parallel to and are often interwoven with his philosophical and religious beliefs ; from whichever aspect we view it , the same pattern of development emerges , though which element is providing the motivation remains obscure . |
| 22 | In writing for others they will learn that writing for a public audience requires more care to be taken with the finished product than writing for oneself as an aid to memory . |