Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] that [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I suggest that a few moments here on deck will suffice . ’ |
2 | The hon. Member for Gateshead , East looks doubtful , but in a debate in the other place yesterday , Baroness Hollis of Higham said : ’ Thirdly I suggest that a few functions would appropriately come up from the county councils . ’ |
3 | Ukraine for example is already stated in its er declaration of Sovereignty that it regards itself as a non nuclear zone , so they 're not going to want nuclear weapons for themselves , and er , I imagine that the former republics will have to quite a a comprehensive military alliance perhaps on the lines of NATO and that nuclear weapons will be vested in that alliance . |
4 | ‘ I noticed that a few counties had decided on June 6 and I sent out a letter pointing out that the recommended date was the second Saturday in June . |
5 | But I fancied feeling the long hard pressure of ocean waves against our hull and , though we were short-handed , I reckoned that a few days out of sight of land would shake us all down quickly . |
6 | Now the reason I mention last year 's events , is that I suspect that the same arguments are gon na be trotted out again . |
7 | I know that a few readers are now muttering ‘ sweated labour ’ under their breath ! |
8 | I believe that the more promoters to whom agents sell acts that lose money , the less people there will be around to do business with . |
9 | Without wishing to drown the explanation in cold water , I feel that a few sprinkles are needed to chill it down . |
10 | Well , I think that a few words from me are called for , as you say . ’ |
11 | It 's only since the Second World War I think that a few nations , especially the , the , the highly socialist ones with a strong erm directed policy of sports , in sports and education , have begun to put an amount of effort into sports training which the less socialistic and less state concentrated countries like our own have found a , a bit offensive . |
12 | ‘ When a black kid does see a black athlete , such as myself , a role model if you like , that might be enough to spark a little interest and I thank that the more blacks that you see in tennis , it will promote black tennis further . ’ |
13 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
14 | Although all the reported decisions refer to article 10 , I conceive that the same arguments mutatis mutandis must apply to article 19 . |
15 | Er the same things happens with nouns and verbs and other things and in Ja Japanese again I think you find that the same words are pronounced differently . |
16 | We took up the coathanger as our symbol — one of the grim tools women used to induce their own abortions before the operation was legalized — and we vowed that no more women should die , become maimed or made permanently sterile as a result of trying to get an abortion . |
17 | Oh we did that a few times when the , the borders were closed with |
18 | Let me add that the latter incidents were many years ago . |
19 | Any new module needs to have a distinct identity and market — SCOTVEC feels that it would be confusing to employers to have a proliferation of modules and titles and so the Catalogue sub-committee will not accept a new proposal if it thinks that the same outcomes can be achieved by suitable fleshing-out of an existing module . |
20 | By studying a series of successively younger embryos he found that the same cells at the tip of the limbs always contacted the central nervous system first , and that subsequent connections were always made along pathways established by the axon processes extended by these pioneer cells . |
21 | If my right hon. Friend should be considering with his right hon. Friend the Chancellor any largesse over the next two or three weeks , will he ensure that a few crumbs from the Treasury table fall in that direction ? |
22 | Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work . |
23 | He stated that the many foreigners who had worked with the impressive radio facilities of ‘ The Voice of China ’ in or near Chungking would shortly be leaving ; Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was in need of an experienced professional broadcasting executive to assist in continuing broadcasts from China on medium-wave internally , and on short-wave to the world . |
24 | It seems that a few years ago Mrs Brissett 's daughter 's husband left her and she had trouble finding a job and had no money … and Harriet helped her find a job somewhere . |
25 | It seems that every few decades in this country we have a major battle over divorce law reform . |
26 | It seems that the more things are different , the more they stay the same ! |
27 | It seems that the more things are different , the more they stay the same ! |
28 | And he warned that no more talks between local parties and the British and Irish governments could take place until Dublin dropped its territorial claim on Ulster . |
29 | He knew that the more strings an actor had to his bow , the wider the possibilities there were open to him . |
30 | But when he insisted that the same warnings should be used on advertisements , and be bigger than at present , he got them furious . |