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

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1 What she said to me on the subject of the race riots and how she felt in that context makes me think that this stage in her life was nothing to do with race .
2 I accept that political activity in this country could undermine credibility , but it might just confirm credibility .
3 Now whenever I smell roasted chestnuts in Shijo-dori in Kyoto , or in Zürich Hauptbahnhof , I remember that aching void in my life .
4 ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather !
5 I believe that total employment in manufacturing on the Chirton Estate is unlikely to exceed 3000 , although there are some jobs in retailing .
6 The law firms within it have been competing very strongly with each other , there are six extremely good law firms in Leeds and their I think that that experience in competition over the last few years will stand them in very good stead .
7 What I have to say really , is that most of those premises present very little risk at all , and , and I think that any change in the implementation of fire safety legislation should be based in prioritization .
8 Then I notice that this creature in front of me , allegedly my loin fruit , but dressed more like a senior member of Hezbollah , is wearing earphones and tapping a toe to some unheard tune .
9 When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act .
10 Maggie was about to refuse but she caught that sceptical look in the count 's eye and changed her mind .
11 Is it that she , she 's , she 's , she 's wondering what will happen to her family or children if they go abroad , or is she thinking that each country in the Community , perhaps having some special erm excellence of its own , ought to be shedding this example among the others so that we all raise ourselves to a common , higher level ?
12 We treasure confirmation and we fear that any alteration in the pattern might lead to confirmation ceasing to be observed .
13 We found that chronic constipation in young children can persist for many years .
14 When an industry is imperfectly competitive we say that each firm in the industry enjoys a degree of monopoly power .
15 Although we accept that careful zoning in time and space can help to reduce the impacts of noise , we believe there is an urgent need to encourage attitudinal changes in society towards the acceptability of mechanically-aided recreation .
16 We can only identify the proper criteria correctly if we accept that medical treatment in general ought to be divided , for our purposes , into two classes .
17 We believe that formal training in the use of the laryngeal mask would be beneficial to any physician dealing with such cases .
18 To see that this is true , we note that any path in a tree corresponding to a BFS of an AP consists of an alternating sequence of row and column vertices , and R i and C j adjacent in this sequence means is basic .
19 We think that pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients should be considered a criterion for AIDS only if immunodepression is shown by a negative tuberculin skin test and/or low CD4/CD8 ratio .
20 They know that any shortfall in product quality or deficiency in service is a competitive opportunity .
21 They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death .
22 It agrees that compulsory treatment in the community is unacceptable , but accepts that the ‘ revolving door ’ patient who regularly defaults from treatment presents a genuine problem of management .
23 It decrees that intelligent life in some way selects out its own actual universe from a variety of possible alternatives .
24 At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle .
25 It followed that any conflict in the industry was solely the result of mindless agitation and that the men were simply the dupes of their unscrupulous leaders .
26 On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ .
27 It seems that sporting interest in the older black community is very limited .
28 It follows that any increase in the militancy of trade unions which intensifies the competition between them will also tend to raise the rate of inflation .
29 It follows that any increase in trade union militancy , which reflects an intensification of the class struggle , may lead to an increase in the rate of inflation .
30 He remembers hearing it said that each man in one gang at least vowed to kill or disable the keepers if they attempted to thwart their attacks on the game .
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