Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to imagine that giants had ever made Møn their home . |
| 2 | Chris said one of the biggest failings was that parents did not take part in the education of the children , this is where it fell down , that , once the education was seen as a government thing that |
| 3 | In the case of a totally sealed labour market , new employees would only be drawn from the families of existing staff , and efforts would be made to ensure that individuals did not seek places outside the firm . |
| 4 | In the years before the oil crisis dismissals were frequently justified by arguing that individuals did not merit tenure because they lacked commitment or because of their poor educational qualifications . |
| 5 | A survey of 140 heads , deputies and careers teachers by a marketing consultancy found that 54 per cent thought that businesses went about recruiting school-leavers ‘ not very well ’ or ‘ very badly ’ . |
| 6 | What concerned him more was the fact that Myles had once contemplated suicide . |
| 7 | But yesterday one of the group 's leading members , Mrs Rajender Kaur , stated firmly that Sikhs did not want Khalistan , their own state . |
| 8 | I knew that men did n't enjoy talk about emotion . |
| 9 | Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand . |
| 10 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 11 | Government recognized that nurses did not take strike action and believed that it was right to have a system of pay determination which meant that they did not lose by that policy . |
| 12 | The family refused to be reassured by the expert 's promises that poltergeists did not harm people . |
| 13 | In relation to the question of the position of women , it would follow that , since — it is thought — the new testament does not allow the headship of a woman , and through the fact that women did not exercise headship in that society , that a woman should be head of state is as wrong as that a woman should exercise headship within the church . |
| 14 | Stone is anxious to stress that women did not want divorce , which is largely true of the period he concentrates on , although the picture becomes much more complicated in the twentieth century . |
| 15 | When I queried this , I was told that subscribers did not wish BT to divulge this information . |
| 16 | Interrupters were warned that fascists did not tolerate hecklers , who if they continued where then ejected from the meeting . |