Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that Blackburn chairman Jack Walker was unimpressed by Thomas 's contribution in the 3–3 draw at Selhurst Park and refused to sign another of his famous cheques with all those zeros . |
| 2 | He was also a vegetarian , although the story goes that Chapman persuaded him to eat steaks after hearing that he sometimes felt faint when heading a ball . |
| 3 | The story goes that James Gilbey , pulled into a lay-by somewhere in Oxfordshire on New Years Eve 1989 and used his car phone to call the Royal residence at Sandringham in Norfolk . |
| 4 | The story goes that James Gilbey , pulled into a lay-by somewhere in Oxfordshire on New Years Eve 1989 and used his car phone to call the Royal residence at Sandringham in Norfolk . |
| 5 | The story goes that Ghar Hasan was used by a Saracen , over eight hundred years ago , as a hiding place , to avoid expulsion . |
| 6 | The story goes that Wenceslas wished to prove his queen was guilty of adultery and Nepomuk , as the queen 's confessor , denied that she was . |
| 7 | Queen Victoria thinks that Grace Darling is one of the finest young women in this country , and she is writing to thank her . |
| 8 | Meanwhile New Scientist understands that ministers have not taken up the offer of the Greenfield committee to hold further meetings to consider the issues of generic drugs further . |
| 9 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear insists that Vinnie Jones will bounce back tomorrow at Middlesbrough after his huge £20,000 FA fine this week . |
| 10 | NME understands that Nirvana commissioned an official biography from a London-based journalist last week . |
| 11 | NME understands that Jim and William Reid have already approached '60s singer/songwriter and cult legend Lee Hazelwood , who has agreed to contribute guest vocals to the LP . |
| 12 | NME understands that Daltrey wanted to capitalise on the success of 1989 reunion shows , but Townshend will be busy working on a new solo album . |
| 13 | One of the first-time buyer discounts that Martin should consider is from Abbey National . |
| 14 | But top psychologist Maryon Tysoe insists that sex is n't necessarily a key factor in an age-gap relationship . |
| 15 | The alternative candidate for the honour of being the liberal theory of contracts insists that obligations should only arise in order to discourage and compensate harm to the interests of others . |
| 16 | Siann concludes that evidence from hormonal studies and ethology is extremely ambiguous and that no conclusions can be drawn with regard to male and female behaviour or emotions , and that psychoanalytic approaches can not produce any firm answers on questions of sex and gender ( Siann 1985 : 33–9 , 82–4 , 123–8 ) . |
| 17 | In August 1893 , the Vicar writes that funds for the new organ are not coming in very quickly , the funds standing at only £30 711 . |
| 18 | ( The hypothesis supposes that voters have a short memory : they expect continuity only from the incumbent . ) |
| 19 | Grimshaw emphasises that femininity or masculinity are not fixed , nor are they independent of each other . |
| 20 | Albin adds that DMSO seems to improve blood flow and levels of oxygen around the brain and could be used to restrict the effects of certain kinds of stroke . |
| 21 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 22 | Every otaku emphasises that Miyazaki is the strange exception to an otherwise peaceful , constructive movement . |
| 23 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 24 | Virginia Woolf in her Collected Essays writes that women 's humour tends to make serious what appears insignificant to men , and trivialise what is important to them . |
| 25 | Wright remarks that Sutcliffe 's data ( 1982a : 124 ) support the notion ( attributed to Le Page ) that " recreolisation is a focusing process " . |
| 26 | ‘ Mrs Walker thinks that Ruth was trying on makeup , ’ said powderless Miss Barrett , her unpainted eyes and lips wide with shock . |
| 27 | Scott thinks that landowners no longer form a distinctive group within the upper classes : the growth of ‘ agribusiness ’ has meant that agriculture is run in much the same manner as any other business . |
| 28 | If King Edward thinks that Dunbar is worth the strengthening , presumably to withstand assault , then he must have reason . |
| 29 | P.A. Stafford thinks that Cnut may have reinforced this by encouraging the cults of other murdered princes , such as Wigstan , a ninth-century Mercian , whom he had translated from Repton to Evesham . |
| 30 | In the year of German reunification and national congratulation , Michael Verhoeven insists that ghosts from the past are alive and kicking in the ‘ mature democracy ’ of the west . |