Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 2 | FALL-OUT at Credit Lyonnais Laing , where I hear that 12 staff from UK research , equity sales , dealing and settlements were bid farewell a week ago . |
| 3 | Although I say that this story could really happen , I doubt that there would be the character of Simon in reality as I think that a boy his age would realise the dangerous situation he was in , and join the other boys . |
| 4 | Although I feel that one theme in To Kill A Mocking Bird is racial prejudice , I feel that this idea broadens out to the main theme for the whole novel of man 's inhumanity to man . |
| 5 | Watching her sleep , however , is not the most stimulating experience I 've had of late , although I realise that certain New York film-makers would have shot ten solid reels of it and begged for more . |
| 6 | ALTHOUGH I agree that many industries are run better by private enterprise than by the state , I think there should only be one bank . |
| 7 | Such help is certainly required , so I hope that this facility of the Territorial Army will not be wasted . |
| 8 | ‘ Once I realised that this novel was going to be a kind of mammoth , I decided to forgo writing the series . |
| 9 | If I used that particular eyepiece on my 76-mm refractor , I would still obtain a magnification of around × 600 — but the image would be so faint that it would be completely useless . |
| 10 | Perhaps I will convey a better idea of the tone of those evenings if I say that regular visitors included the likes of Mr Harry Graham , valet-butler to Sir James Chambers , and Mr John Donalds , valet to Mr Sydney Dickenson . |
| 11 | If I learn that any man went missing today he 'll need to satisfy me where he was . ’ |
| 12 | The idea seemed too melodramatically absurd , until I recalled that all melodrama has its basis in the lurid facts of earlier generations . |
| 13 | I mention all this because I know that many women are horrified at the idea of their baby being delivered in this way . |
| 14 | I , hope , too , that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will address the technical problems of billing , particularly carry-over yearly billing , to avoid current confusion with many charge payers , because I regret that separate billing has not increased accountability . |
| 15 | I confess to having myself once described a particularly abstruse provision as ‘ something of a minor masterpiece of opacity ’ , but I regret it because I think that such shafts are frequently not aimed at the right target . |
| 16 | The former can do no more than skim the surface of an area which has recently been very heavily mined ; the latter is included because I think that this theory , though recent , is more than a passing fashion and contains some insights into the nature of knowledge . |
| 17 | I 'm very sorry about that because I believe that that money could be better spent within the fire service on other matters to provide a much better service to the general public . |
| 18 | While I believe that some parts of this routine are absolutely essential , I am only too well aware that the ideas still have to stand the test of time . |
| 19 | While I believe that this work has promoted a great deal of useful thinking about the place and function of writing in the curriculum , I am not alone in doubting the validity of the model . |
| 20 | I have included poultry recipes in this book , since I know that many people do not share my feelings , and that a healthy source of nutrients should not be lightly eliminated . |
| 21 | Have nasty moment in bathroom before I realise that recycled bog paper is full of eccentric imperfections . |
| 22 | We left 406 in October 1943 , and that was the last I heard of them until I received my Spring 1991 issue of Air Mail when I spotted that 406 Sqn were having a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion in earlyh May at Shearwater Forces Base , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia . |
| 23 | I HAD to cry when I saw that blind singer Lennie Peters is fighting cancer . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 25 | We are running up Trundleys Road across the Surrey Canal when I suggest that this running could get us nicked by the police . |
| 26 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama . |
| 29 | When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it . |
| 30 | Why should I accept even the very small risk of living near a dump site for nuclear waste when I believe that nuclear power is costly , dangerous and unneeded ? |