Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This echoed the view of a number of solicitor respondents , one of whom argued that sole practitioners should be required to change their accountant annually ; whilst others said sole practitioners should be prohibited from instructioning sole practitioner accountants . |
| 2 | During a visit to Portugal on Jan. 14 Levi held talks with the Foreign Ministers of Angola and Cape Verde , both of whom announced that diplomatic relations with Israel would soon be established . |
| 3 | Although the Geneva-based International Electrotechnical Commission is making progress on standards to safeguard against RFI , not everyone agrees that international bodies ( or individual governments ) should act to stamp out RFI . |
| 4 | Despite the fact no-one doubts that popular opinions on crime and its containment are extensively and deeply held , whenever Criminal Justice Bills are before the Commons the atmosphere seems detached and wary , with few MPs participating and a majority keeping the subject at arms length . |
| 5 | Phone — Office again to let me know that free school meals have been confirmed for pupil B. Back to typing . |
| 6 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |
| 7 | Nor am I suggesting that black children are somehow linguistically deficient or unable to separate English from Creole . |
| 8 | In August I revealed that Prime Minister 's son James Major had a £3-an-hour holiday job . |
| 9 | I made that clear in the advertisement , I hope . |
| 10 | Commenting on the resignations , he said : ‘ I regret that certain people were unable to accept the majority decision of the executive . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Earlier this year , I announced that local authorities would receive aggregate external finance of £5.13 billion . |
| 13 | … American and European societies became increasingly interdependent , by which I mean that complex urban-industrial societies involved individuals in unprecedentedly complex patterns of relations extending beyond personal and community ties to distant bonds no less real because of their obscurity . … |
| 14 | I mean that big red thing , that was n't meant to be ordinary clothes , was it ? ’ |
| 15 | Drawing nearer , I realized that warm air had twisted their outline — they were two men using scythes , no , garden rakes . |
| 16 | But , gradually , I realised that kinky underwear gives me sexual freedom . |
| 17 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 18 | Though , as he agreed in throwing Coe overboard while Barry and I were reported , virtually , by the select committee , to be on an equality , I fear that personal feelings together with hostility to my style , had an even stronger influence . |
| 19 | First my father 's plans for my marrying a French princess , precluded my offering you anything more than a clandestine attachment — and now , with the future so uncertain , I fear that clandestine attachment and French princess are each as remote as the other . |
| 20 | I lack that biological instinct which makes most women want to reproduce themselves , especially when they are in their thirties and feel they might be leaving things a bit late . |
| 21 | ‘ I met that young man Billy Sullivan in the park the other day , ’ Annie said casually , wanting to glean some information about him . |
| 22 | I hate that black velvet on the chairs and sofa . |
| 23 | After tonight , I realise that real life is what matters . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Have nasty moment in bathroom before I realise that recycled bog paper is full of eccentric imperfections . |
| 26 | I tried that 26-letter word on my ‘ spellchecker ’ : it paused for a moment , then put up its hands with ‘ sorry , no suggestions ’ . |
| 27 | I expect that experienced knitter will have tried most , if not all , of these but I know that there are lots of new knitters who have not . |
| 28 | I found that ordinary narrow masking tape was the answer . |
| 29 | When the child caught this later and went off her food , I found that tiny Marmite sandwiches handed over whilst I pushed the pram round Wood Green and along the New Yatt Road , seemed to be acceptable to the invalid . |
| 30 | I found that moderate slip angles produce no nasty consequences , but was restrained from further experimentation with the admonition that the aircraft describes what sounds like a brisk departure into a fast outside flick roll with the nose going hard down to exceed its negative-g limit . |