Example sentences of "or that [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no indication that they , unlike the aggro leaders , were actively engaged in inciting other fans to join in the scraps or that they led concerted attacks against the opposition . |
| 2 | Sometimes they possessed knowledge about sex , but could not admit that this was sexual , or that they had those sorts of desires . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Secondly , on the issue of the precedents for making a defendant prove his defence in the way in which the Bill requires , I argue that every year — certainly since I have been in the House — we have created numerous new offences which have defences attached to them , usually for those who can show that they acted reasonably or that they used due diligence to ensure that they avoided committing an offence . |
| 5 | It was an inconsequential remark but she hoped it might lead to some interesting revelation on Ianthe 's part , that Bishop Heber had been an ancestor or that she loved Victorian poetry , for , looking at the bookshelves , she was sure that she did . |
| 6 | There have been suggestions that James owed Gowrie a great deal of money , and contrived the incident to rid himself of the debt ; or that he had homosexual designs on the young man , and had murderously silenced him when rejected . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Secondly , there is nothing to suggest that using two languages detracts from either one of them or that it produces continued interference . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Society might judge that this severely reduced the welfare of citizens in remote areas or that it promoted regional dissent which reduced the sense of national unity . |
| 13 | 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 . |