Example sentences of "[coord] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they possessed knowledge about sex , but could not admit that this was sexual , or that they had those sorts of desires . |
| 2 | It is hard , after a lifetime of sharing disappointments and problems with a parent , to find that they are no longer capable of sustaining conversation , that their memory is failing or that they have little interest in things outside their own immediate situation . |
| 3 | Did you know , for instance , that I led Birdman on Kilnsey Crag , or that I spent several days top-roping and practising Zero on Idwal 's Suicide Wall ? |
| 4 | I can assert of the oldest tree in the park ( if there is such a tree ) that it is an oak , but I can also say of the sentence " The oldest tree in the park is an oak " that it means the same , or that it expresses same thought as , say , its French or Chinese translation , irrespective of whether it says anything true . |
| 5 | I am , I regret , unable to agree that the judgment of the court beyond this or that , in so far as it was obiter in the context in which it was delivered , can be supported or that it binds this court . |
| 6 | Whether this means that life originated just once , or that it originated many times , each origin acquiring a different code , but that one origin gave rise to more successful competitors , we do not know . |
| 7 | He took particular care of young players , seeing that they were well-fed and well-lodged and that they sent some money home to their parents each week . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But on the whole it seems true to say that the minors and the ladies were at their lord 's disposal , and that they had little chance of resisting what he did ; but that none the less the lords were limited by custom , and even a king would be expected to consult his counsellors when he disposed of an heiress , as Henry I promised to do in his coronation charter . |
| 10 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 11 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 12 | And that they let those beliefs shape their lives — as if their lives were of no account . ’ |
| 13 | It is equally important , however , that children understand mathematical concepts and processes and that they see some purpose in learning the subject . |
| 14 | Other researchers , such as Clarricoates ( 1978 ) and Stanworth ( 1981 ) , found that teachers tend to spend more time talking to boys , and that they have more difficulty remembering girls ' names . |
| 15 | So far as assistance to grandchildren in adult life is concerned , the American evidence suggests that grandparents do assist financially and that they define this assistance as a gift , unlike financial support between the other two generations which is more likely to be defined as a loan , or as part of an exchange ( Hill , 1970 , pp. 69–70 ) . |
| 16 | Mr Deputy Speaker I I 'm grateful to the honourable gentleman for posing the central question and I hope in the course of my remarks I will satisfy the house , if not all Labour members , that the settlement proposals are at is all to the good and delivered by councils throughout Wales and that they offer enough money er to avoid sacking essential staff , certainly the offer enough money to avoid sacking any teacher who is needed in the classroom . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've since had quite a number of first division chairmen clearly indicating they did not consider it a final offer and that they want this thing settled , ’ said Taylor . |
| 18 | And that I wanted all sorts of things from London . |
| 19 | And that I say that picture has appeared on everything , even on china , I think you can buy some at erm ca n't you even with that on it . |
| 20 | right , and that I do all day is put a little top up in there . |
| 21 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 22 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 23 | It was already clear to Coleman from his analysis of the drugs-related intelligence coming out of Lebanon that the traditional heroin route to the US via Cyprus , Frankfurt and London was used regularly by both agencies , that the traffic was not always in narcotics and that it moved both ways . |
| 24 | It is said that there is a spell within the music , and that they always spin it for the true heir , and that it protects that heir throughout his life . |
| 25 | In it he said that the Scottish financial sector did nothing to help the country 's economy , that it benefited only a selected minority , and that it put little back into Scotland . |
| 26 | He said we played far to many domestic games , and that he hoped this disater would be a blessing in disguise . |
| 27 | He only knew that the speech had told and that he raised applause , and that he made some jokes which aroused laughter . |
| 28 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
| 29 | It is practically certain that Choerilus had in mind the eastern Ethiopians , and that he combined several passages from Homer ( Odys. 5.283 ) and from Herodotus ( 7.79 ; 7.89 and possibly 3.8 ) to form his fanciful picture . |
| 30 | And that he had that house built , er , like er , before he got in it and it was paid , built and paid for like , you know and that . |