Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commenting on the resignations , he said : ‘ I regret that certain people were unable to accept the majority decision of the executive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | … 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 . … |
| 4 | I mean that big red thing , that was n't meant to be ordinary clothes , was it ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I hate that black velvet on the chairs and sofa . |
| 9 | After tonight , I realise that real life is what matters . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Have nasty moment in bathroom before I realise that recycled bog paper is full of eccentric imperfections . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Perhaps I will convey a better idea of the tone of those evenings if I say that regular visitors included the likes of Mr Harry Graham , valet-butler to Sir James Chambers , and Mr John Donalds , valet to Mr Sydney Dickenson . |
| 14 | Expecting ongoing punishment for the drugs episode , I forget that other people have different timetables for both acceptance and forgiveness . |
| 15 | I suggest that general practitioners ' decisions are generally what Spiegelhalter and colleagues call stage 1 decisions — that is , unaided intuitive judgments . |
| 16 | Answering this question is a complex matter but I suggest that empirical and theoretical investigation is long overdue . |
| 17 | With this in mind , when considering situations where there are questions about very long term service lives , I suggest that current construction methods should not make it too difficult to incorporate any presently unthought of developments that might materialise in the future — be this in 20 or even 100 years time ! |
| 18 | Based on the above , which HDTV hype can not alter , I suggest that commercial technical research should concentrate on larger flat screens with superimposed pixels with change of standards but with some attention to the basic defects in the NTSC , Pal and Secam systems which are only mildly irritating . |
| 19 | ‘ Having in mind all the circumstances I suggest that active inquiries in this case be suspended until fresh information is forthcoming . |
| 20 | ’ In order to ascertain the indigenous meanings , I suggest that indigenous concepts be explored , and the vocabulary denoting inner states examined . |
| 21 | Venturing to propound a law of intellectual life , I suggest that evaluative criticism enters institutional literary study under the influence of practising writers , or of critics who have a close discipular relation to them , but that in time it is rejected , like an alien organ . |
| 22 | I could have mentioned cogito ergo sum , only I detest that shallow but influential maxim , now I 'm glad to say discarded . ’ |
| 23 | I imagine that rearranging furniture will give me room to think more spaciously . |
| 24 | True , four track is a mite limiting , but I imagine that live performance was again uppermost in Roland 's mind here . |
| 25 | Mr Badran , who was seeking a vote of confidence from the newly elected parliament , said : ‘ I announce that martial law is now considered frozen … until such laws are constitutionally abolished in the near future . ’ |
| 26 | I hope that Catholic Woman , as it develops , will encourage all Catholic women … single , religious and married … to see the significance of what they already do and the potential which they can yet realise , both in the Church and in society . |
| 27 | I hope that Belgian Ministers involved in the fate of this airfield will read this and consider seriously the disadvantages of closure of Grimbergen , and they should also bear in mind the forthcoming elections ! |
| 28 | I hope that additional trade will flow from the mission in the longer term . |
| 29 | I hope that part-time workers will take note of that . |
| 30 | I hope that future generations will never have to suffer the , and endure the noise that we did for the same purpose . |