Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone agreed that this was a sensible decision , with the exception of growers from the more outlying districts , in particular the Midi , who had a vested interest in selling to Champagne and who would certainly be excluded . |
| 2 | Everyone agrees that this means both sides must be heard , but it is disputed whether it also means that both sides must have equal time even though the arguments of one side are more complex or require more witnesses than the other . |
| 3 | The long ridge to their left looked particularly bleak and lifeless , the heavy clay sitting solidly in the ridges where the plough had left it months before , no trace of last year 's crop , nothing to indicate that this was good cereal country . |
| 4 | I just want someone to know that this — all this stuff — has been a burden and nothing but a burden from start to finish , and that I feel no twinge of regret at coming out of that place , and that I shall never go back into it , ever , so help me Frederica Potter . |
| 5 | This argument was having a little success around the table , when the President of the Society , W. M. Smart , squirmed in the Chair , and exclaimed in an anguished voice : ‘ Then will somebody propose that this paper be rejected irrespective of its contents ? ’ |
| 6 | Nobody suggests that this is all due to lead , but I am not aware that either Rutter or anybody else has provided any convincing alternative explanation for the phenomenon . |
| 7 | But everyone sees that this is absurd . |
| 8 | Council leader Michael Carr said no one argued that this was necessary . |
| 9 | There is plenty of documentary evidence that brass objects were imported into Benin from Europe by sea and no one doubts that this was the main source of the metal from the 16th century onwards . |
| 10 | One doubts that this will catch on here but helps with an introduction to lead me into a number of important themes relating to culture and death education . |
| 11 | Well , one assumes that this is the expected response to such a plotless folly . |
| 12 | Not least when the thin one says that this is an ‘ anti-politics ’ tune : ‘ Songs are too romantic to give across a political view , like . |
| 13 | On closer inspection one sees that this interpretation of ‘ want ’ misplaces the centre of imperative force in the child 's situation . |
| 14 | The morphological and syntactic characteristics of the infinitive ( no personal endings , no subject ) lead one to conclude that this support has the form of a generalized person which does not vary in rank but which encompasses all possible ordinal persons . |
| 15 | The atmosphere is hardly lightened when guitarist Alex Lee takes a pissed stagediver to task , but one suspects that this is precisely the kind of turmoil Strangelove get their kicks from . |
| 16 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 17 | Experiments have shown that we tend to hear speech as more rhythmical than it actually is , and one suspects that this is what the proponents of the stress-timed rhythm theory have been led to do in their auditory analysis of English rhythm . |
| 18 | One feels that this is a man who could . |
| 19 | And this would be an insupportable thing to know about oneself , if one thought that this implied some superiority over the people around one . |
| 20 | I know that the ‘ black baby ’ campaign was merely an attempt at fund-raising , but when one realizes that this implies that black children were ‘ for sale ’ one can see that this term would be deeply offensive to black Catholics and others . |
| 21 | The left-wing MP for Bolsover 's term as party chairman ends tomorrow , but no one believes that this will lower the profile of one of Labour 's most colourful and respected figures . |
| 22 | If no one knows that this change has happened , because of the relative isolation that many people live in today , then it becomes much more difficult to grieve openly . |
| 23 | A salesman whose last two months ' returns fall below the required norm may be thought to be failing , until one knows that this is the first time that it has happened in five years . |
| 24 | Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and we must rearm , does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment ? |
| 25 | Everyone knew that this body had been a key element in Stalin 's rise to power and that any criticism of it was , by inference , a critique of Stalin . |
| 26 | There was n't too much problem when everyone knew that this is what schools were meant to do — as with the priest colleges of ancient Egypt , the monasteries of Europe or Asia , or the academies of Greece or China . |
| 27 | everybody thought that this agency was for runaway dads . |
| 28 | I did n't want anyone to feel that this diet was a ‘ prison sentence ’ to be endured for a few weeks or months before old habits could be reintroduced . |
| 29 | However we do not wish anyone to feel that this is too great a financial burden for them , so if you prefer payment may still be split between September and January . |
| 30 | There is nothing to show that this plan was " officially adopted " : if anything , it was a shot over Lothar 's bows . |