Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [det] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's quite an interesting one , if you consider as students how do you learn erm in general you probably do n't learn that much in lectures because for example we know from experiments that we all have a limited attention span . |
| 2 | We 've all — take these two poems , we 've all been children ; most people have been in love ; we 're all we all think about our death ; we all think about our parents ; we all like stories and we all like stories that seem , you know , to deal with some primal central human experience , so I do n't think you have to say anything more than what we all know already , that we all have a great deal in common with one another . |
| 3 | Practitioners believe that we all have a huge ability to heal ourselves ; the day-to-day stresses of life can make us lose our way and illness strikes . |
| 4 | Some violence is , of course , sheer unadulterated sadism with an accompanying orgiastic delight in hurting and remember that we all have a sadistic capacity and there are not many people so out of touch with the darker , deeper aspects of their human nature that they have never indulged a sadistic fantasy . |
| 5 | Thousands of different kinds of rocks have been described and separately named , but when one gets down to their chemistry , one finds that they all have a great deal in common . |
| 6 | The thick bulky part of the original plant is generally of little use and should be discarded , but all the ‘ branches ’ can be planted individually to form new plants , providing that they each have a healthy terminal shoot . |
| 7 | The underlying basis of this consensus was a common appreciation of the political pressures facing the railway : the parties recognised ‘ that they both walked a political tightrope , and that if either party fell off the other would be likely to follow ’ ( 68 ) . |