Example sentences of "[pers pn] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it will be obvious to an incisive mind like yours that the existence of the Counterweight Continent poses a deadly threat to our people here — ’ he paused , looking at Rincewind 's open mouth . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you telling me that the likes of Rhodes , Parker , Tate , Hirst , Dennett was n't in their different ways fierce ? ’ |
| 3 | All the same , Reader 's Digest is a successful publishing house and it seems to me that the company would not be producing the book if it were not convinced that there is a big market for such works . |
| 4 | But Mo do n't snow me that the Company did n't see all that and start a Track Two behind the comeback of Winter Garden ’ |
| 5 | It seems to me that the Dinka language , unlike modern , educated , and for the most part metropolitan English , compels its speakers to integrate the moral and physical attributes of persons together within the physical matrix of the human body . |
| 6 | Indeed it seems to me that the contribution to date of the voluntary sector to service provision in most sectors has been marginal and peripheral . |
| 7 | They do not have black balls at the New Club , but they have even more members in the legal profession than Muirfield ; and word reached me that the election committee had received objections to my membership too strong to ignore . |
| 8 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 9 | It seems to me that the implication in such an attitude is that the space can be filled — it is possible — and that this is therefore a more simple and perhaps less courageous attitude than that of the anorexic . |
| 10 | Six Local Art Societies , Art Gallery in the Town Centre , Queensway , Billingham ( until March 14 ) IT seems to me that the ink was barely dry on my last little piece which suggested that Darlington Society of Arts seemed content to restrict itself to one exhibition per year when , all of a sudden , came news that Darlington , the CAS and Hartlepool Art Club were to join forces respectively the Hambleton , Leven and Yarm art societies to put on a joint show of their work at Billingham . |
| 11 | I went back to the beginning and started over , but had n't come to any conclusion when I reached the sign telling me that the Florabelle served the thickest steak in five counties . |
| 12 | We have the possibilities of a postmodern , post-nationalist way of relating , but it seems to me that the prerequisite of that in these islands is the end of the United Kingdom as we have known it . |
| 13 | While their criticism of reductionism is just and their emphasis on ‘ downward ’ causation ( mind influencing matter ) timely , it seems to me that the problem of ‘ interactionism ’ largely disappears when the systemic position of information processing in the life of a subjectively aware organism is understood . |
| 14 | It seems to me that the problem is coming from the front off side spring settling 15mm more than the rear-Being someone who hates anything that 's not as it should be , it is driving me crackers . |
| 15 | Mr chairman Derek I 've lived in the town for something like thirty five years and seems to me that the problem here is a lot of mistrust between people who use the theatre and the board somewhere people are not getting answers . |
| 16 | and told me that the problem was electric |
| 17 | For instance , Denis Hamilton — a totally fair journalist , but an incorrigible Conservative — came to see me one day to warn me that The Times was prepared to break the newspaper silence that had until then , with the exception of Private Eye , been maintained by all news sources about her two illegitimate children . |
| 18 | Treasury [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1056 , but it seems to me that the court regarded the powers as being capable of legitimate exercise after charge , but only if ( a ) the questions put were limited to those permitted by what are now the concluding words of what is now paragraph 16.5 of Code C , and ( b ) they were preceded by a caution . |
| 19 | It seems to me that the court itself had a right of custody at this time in the sense that it had the right to determine the child 's place of residence , and it was in breach of that right that the mother removed the child from its place of habitual residence . |
| 20 | Er er and it seems to me that the court should n't be clogged up with cases like this . |
| 21 | Vincent Skinner , the Writer of the Tallies , complained that ‘ the distraction I have had about quarrels to my place have hindered me much and now so utterly discouraged me that the service I intended to have done I could not . |
| 22 | They told me that the girl 's father had been as coy as any nineteenth-century English maiden . |
| 23 | The last man I had hired came with me and assured me that the girl who rode to the house was Jenna Bryant . |
| 24 | It seems to me that the foot is in the other boot , so to speak . ’ |
| 25 | Tim Mackie has explained to me that the organisation has been so successful gathering together items of rolling stock , track and equipment that there are not enough members available to operate trains and work on the infrastructure at the same time . |
| 26 | She tells me that the Mum has applied for free meals but should really pay back the money owed . |
| 27 | LDP were not unhappy with this arrangement as we have a good track record with dividend payments and they believe , as we all do , that the Stoddard group is well placed to prosper in the years ahead , which should me that the share price will rise . |
| 28 | It appeared to me that the quest for publicity could do nothing but harm , so long as we were certain , as indeed we made sure , that all the disabled knew of the facility and used it if they so desired . |
| 29 | He told me that the way I felt was quite normal for someone in my situation ’ |
| 30 | My local authority informs me that the proportion of the population will be 12 per cent . |