Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shared the perplexity she had felt as a young officer when she first discovered that a certain number of votes were required to elect a General . |
| 2 | But we all know that a moment 's overload , may wreak havoc . |
| 3 | We all know that a full moon is not normally conducive to good fishing , so was that half moon enough to make the difference ? |
| 4 | We both believed that a marriage certificate was n't that important . |
| 5 | They all confirm that a black hole ought to emit particles and radiation as if it were a hot body with a temperature that depends only on the black hole 's mass : the higher the mass , the lower the temperature . |
| 6 | Both the Gibson company and Les Paul seem to have discovered maple to be an excellent-sounding wood for solid guitars , and they both knew that a mahogany body with a thick maple top would be lighter and would sound just as good , if not better . |
| 7 | They both knew that a loss had been suffered which had to be apportioned between them , but there is nothing to show that they had any idea , let alone conflicting ideas , of what the correct apportionment should be . |
| 8 | She had initially found it impossible to believe that a respected , churchgoing man could have been pushed beyond the limit of his endurance and have killed . |
| 9 | Mr Hooke says he finds it hard to imagine that a company as large as Raytheon would propose a £250m takeover without knowing how Corporate Jets would fit into its existing operations . |
| 10 | She found it hard to believe that a Press Officer would be party to evidence of this nature . |
| 11 | Mathematicians find it useful to assume that a tiny part of the circumference of a large circle can be regarded as straight . |
| 12 | The values of judges in the deep south of the United States of America , who have held it defamatory to suggest that a white person has coloured blood , would not be shared in England . |
| 13 | I find it difficult to believe that a male Oscar would let a female spawn on her own — unless she was so much larger than him that he dare not go near . |
| 14 | I find it difficult to believe that a bank like the NatWest ca n't offer any more appropriate type of account than this ‘ small business account ’ |
| 15 | In what sense is it true to say that a watch or an airliner or an earwig or a person is complex , but the moon is simple ? |
| 16 | Neither is it valid to assume that a full stop indicates sentence termination . |