Example sentences of "[that] [Wh det] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean I think that what that article is directing , you know , it 's main thrust towards is the importance of providing support and the importance , I think , of providing an avenue whereby people can deal with those sorts of problems .
2 I think there was a feeling yesterday , certainly it 's it 's our view that what that paragraph in P P G three does is to set the basic ground rules .
3 He returned south , believing that what little resistance remained would soon be mopped up .
4 Given the position of such firms as Motorola at Bathgate do the Government recognise that what such firms really want is infrastructure , and that local authorities should be helped to provide it ?
5 It transpired that what this man really wanted to do was to strangle his mother , a desire which was both socially and morally unacceptable and had therefore to be repressed .
6 Erm , listening both to what Anna and Terry are saying here , I think er myself and and the colleagues in housing are very well aware that what this council does n't have is a pre-developed strategy of social housing .
7 But his shadow , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ The fact is that what this Government has adopted is the policy of the three o'clock knock by police . ’
8 Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us .
9 To count such comments as these as indicative of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with housework may perhaps be criticized on the grounds that what these women are talking about is not the housework situation , but marriage .
10 Conversely , in many contexts in western ‘ scientific ’ society , it is clear that what some writers have labelled ‘ non-scientific ’ thought is as evident as in non-western societies .
11 The problem with any efficiency drive in government is that what some people regard as a mere means to an end , others regard as an end in itself .
12 I think the question of girls , you know , the is a possibility that there are more girls here from single sex schools is actually very striking because one might say that what those girls are accustomed to is being educated in an empathetic environment .
13 Children tend to believe that those adults around them are all-wise and all-powerful and it follows that whatever these adults say must be true .
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