Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , let it be supposed that she lacked ordinary competence and capacity .
2 For too long , says Ward , we have persisted in the Henry Ford myth that only a genetically privileged few can do joined-up thinking , and the rest are fit for manual tasks so simplified that they produce that brand of mind-numbing tedium which is the most fertile soil for industrial unrest .
3 It is recommended that you have separate command files for these actions , which you then call as appropriate from the standard VMS command files .
4 If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so .
5 When the public respond to your advertisements or because they have heard that you do personal injury work , it is not enough just to tell them that you do and expect them to come into the office .
6 ‘ I have heard that you play this game , ’ he said softly .
7 The observant reader may have noticed that I used this construction myself above on p. 98 ; this was done consciously .
8 Shortly before he died , Mary had noticed that she had great difficulty swallowing food , had gone to her doctor and he had organized X-rays and tests at the local hospital .
9 I 've noticed that she has good bladder control .
10 Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student .
11 Asked about such behaviour she added : ‘ I would be annoyed by it , but I would not feel threatened that he had sexual intercourse with other women .
12 The sculptor had decided that he wanted this bust to confront the observer .
13 They 've decided that you need that number of weeks holiday , then that 's what you should be taking .
14 Rob and Heather had just joined them then , and presumably Luke had felt that he had good reason for not wanting to prolong any conversation about Elise .
15 Once it has been accepted that they need continuing care their responsibility for maintaining themselves is removed .
16 Granted that one has that right , what rights , privileges , powers , and immunities relating to land does one have ?
17 But once granted that we have adequate ground for interpreting people 's preferences as those of conscious beings , it is not clear why it should be denied that we have adequate clues as to whether they have pleasant or unpleasant experiences under various circumstances and for some judgements about the degree of the pleasure or pain involved which allow interpersonal comparisons .
18 All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else .
19 In another age and another society it might have been said that they loved each other .
20 You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing .
21 Indeed , it is said that he composed one aria while waiting for the rice to cook .
22 In fairness to de Valera , it must be said that he opposed any attempt to incorporate the church into the apparatus of the state and in this was , as already noted , going against the form of relationship preferred by the Popes of the day .
23 He had said that he regarded all-round cancellation as the only fair solution to inter-Allied debts , and this remained his basic position throughout .
24 With his father 's help , Victor began slowly exercising his limbs , but doctors have said that he needs controlled therapy in the city hospital — something the family will never be able to afford .
25 Regan and Stewart ( 1982 ) had also earlier argued that they had insufficient legitimacy since members were neither elected or selected on the basis of expert knowledge , prerequisites of authority .
26 If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK .
27 Marxism has sometimes been regarded as a positivist approach since it can be argued that it sees human behaviour as a reaction to the stimulus of the economic infrastructure .
28 You have seen that there exists convincing evidence that the Jovian interior is hot and that convection is the dominant mode of heat transport outwards .
29 We have already seen that it rejects any notion that God is changed .
30 On a recent visit to the Midland Bank in Southampton to ask about opening a current account I was told that I needed some form of indentification .
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