Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jeep was gone and the dust had settled , surely the driver realised that dust-raising meant instant reaction from the Germans with shelling and heavy mortaring of the area and the inevitable casualties . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 6 | The story goes that Ghar Hasan was used by a Saracen , over eight hundred years ago , as a hiding place , to avoid expulsion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | The accident happened out of sight of the public enclosures and 80,000 spectators rose to their feet in a stunned numbness when the tannoy announced that Clark was dead . |
| 10 | It was simply because the build-up to the general election revealed that policies for reducing pollution were the very last thing on anyone 's agenda . |
| 11 | After the Falklands conflict , the Ministry of Defence admitted that ESM was an extremely important aid in warning of attacks . |
| 12 | At the same time , however , increased taxes on income mean that people derive less income for each hour they work and they may therefore decide to prefer leisure to work , i.e. work less — the substitution effect . |
| 13 | In the end , the Board announced that Luxulyan , described as the most promising of the three sites , had been ruled out because it was ‘ on high ground and would visually dominate the area ’ . |
| 14 | She and sister agreed that Mr Brown would need additional help . |
| 15 | The source of arousal is critical for a number of reasons , in addition to the considerable literature suggesting that arousal is not a unitary physiological dimension , there is the problem that in memory tasks an external source arousal may simply distract subjects while memory for an arousing item itself may be subject to von Restorff effects . |
| 16 | Er just for the record Chairman to confirm that Selby District has no argument with the County Council on the Greater York . |
| 17 | Experience shows that it is often difficult to assess the extent of exposure to light that samples receive in the market and hence to estimate the degree of exaggeration or acceleration that any one test gives . |
| 18 | Now for instance using that A P I , I could write a piece of C code , a piece of Three G L , which could access the database as if it was local to my machine on the client . |
| 19 | One of the first-time buyer discounts that Martin should consider is from Abbey National . |
| 20 | On 2 February 1654 the council of state of the Protectorate recommended that Mackworth be added to its number . |
| 21 | In it we incredulously quoted a Guardian story suggesting that Bishop Auckland born Meale defending a tiny Labour majority in Mansfield bore a resemblance to Clark Gable . |
| 22 | Will the Minister pay tribute to the generosity of Mr. Harry Djanogly , who gave £1 million of his personal money to see that Nottingham has a CTC ? |
| 23 | The trial of Chihana , released on bail on Sept. 8 [ for his arrest in April see p. 38851 ; for his release and subsequent rearrest in July see pp. 38995-96 ] , was deferred until Oct. 12 after his counsel argued that irregularities on the part of the authorities threatened a miscarriage of justice . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most important law change to emphasise that rugby is played by players standing on their feet ; this season after a tackle any other player must be on his feet when he plays the ball immaterial of what distance he is away from the tackle . |
| 25 | He looked back from their struggle to see that Duvall had stepped forward . |
| 26 | The effective teacher of the 1990s can not simply be the skilled , classroom practitioner ; the evolution of the National Curriculum and the dominant consumer ideology mean that history teachers should be as careful and professional in the presentation of the case for history as they are in their curricular activities . |
| 27 | Under this law if seat belts or child restraints appropriate for the age and weight of the child are fitted in the rear of the car , the driver has a legal responsibility to see that children under the age of 14 wear them , unless they have a medical exemption certificate . |
| 28 | On Jan. 25 , however , the Security Council deferred a debate on the Gulf crisis , after a majority agreed that Iraq should first comply with all UN resolutions . |
| 29 | Japan 's strength in Asia and her existence as a powerful member of the Western camp mean that Japan 's relations with Asia are no longer the mirror-image of those with the West . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |