Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have a fox that lives near us and I have spent many a night and a morning watching it frolicking and jumping about and it breaks my heart to think that many of its kind are suffering death at its worst . |
| 2 | I do not for my part think that any assistance at all can be gained from the authorities on section 40 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |
| 3 | My experience suggests that many lesions that are macular and blanch on direct pressure respond more favourably to pulsed dye lasers than to alternatives such as copper vapour lasers , although in many cases responses are similar . |
| 4 | I wanted a Knitmaster , but my husband insisted that this must be a better buy , although I do n't think I paid more than £42.00 for it . |
| 5 | Could my service assume that any minutes would only be distributed as ‘ Top Secret ’ ? ’ |
| 6 | My Lord to say that that evidence will not assist you and should n't be received . |
| 7 | I remarked that it resembled a gigantic roll of lavatory paper ; my guide confirmed that this was exactly what it was . |
| 8 | Put it this way , M' lud : my client thinks that most of the values of the society in which he lives stink , and he hopes with this book to promote fornication , masturbation , adultery , the stoning of priests and , since we 've temporarily got your attention , M' lud , the suspension of corrupt judges by their earlobes . |
| 9 | My my estimate says that each copy of this cost in excess of two pounds fifty . |
| 10 | One very reliable source recalled another John Birch who had indeed been sent to prison for the offence mentioned above , and my informant suspects that this is where the confusion initially stemmed from . |
| 11 | Perhaps we are seeing , as an evolution ( the origins of which can be traced to the nineteenth century ) , the emergence of a genuine hybrid tribunal , in which case to suggest that this body is a further example of the use of judges for extrajudicial activities is only one way to describe it . |
| 12 | However , the pain in her chest confirmed that this was no nightmare , but grim reality . |
| 13 | Staff and students are reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure that all books on loan to them from the Library are kept securely , in good condition , away from harmful environments , and readily accessible to Library staff in the event of their being required for other readers . |
| 14 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 15 | Its issue presupposes that some function of the body remains to be performed , and this sets an internal time limit after which the order could not issue ( although an applicant can be denied the order because of undue delay even before the expiry of this time ) . |
| 16 | This was reflected in an interesting phenomenon noticed by Mellanby : many school medical officers in safe urban reception areas were insistent that head lice had been virtually unknown in their area until the dirty , verminous and ill-mannered inner city evacuees arrived ; they were shocked when confronted with past hospital records for their town showing that this was not so . |
| 17 | And it 's her job to ensure that each and every one of them is blooming lovely . |
| 18 | Their leader denied that these middle-class hearties were the equivalent of Hitler 's thugs . |
| 19 | When rioting broke out Eva was concerned for their safety knowing that all the other neighbours were Sinhalese . |
| 20 | Did her husband know that this was his 13,870th breakfast with Mrs Surb ? |
| 21 | Its dimensions and the details of its decoration indicate that this was no empty boast . |
| 22 | Claire Robinson in her affidavit deposes that all parties were in agreement that the court on 16 February had not come to any opinion as to whether or not Mr. Bell had broken or was likely to break any condition of his bail . |
| 23 | It has shown its commitment to ensure that all children with special needs , including dyslexics , receive the help they need as early as possible . ’ |
| 24 | Her manner said that this was a thing of great indifference to her , but that she was just setting the record straight . |
| 25 | It is the personal responsibility of the member of staff involved and their supervisor to ensure that such records are maintained in other that , in their absence , information is available to other workers . |
| 26 | Both Nellie and her daughter wore that same look on their faces at the mention of the name Galloway . |
| 27 | Its report shows that some 26m tonnes of plastics ( excluding textile fibres ) are consumed annually in Western Europe , with the EC accounting for about 23m tonnes . |
| 28 | However , what this assumes is that the police never make decisions to de-politicise crime , which they plainly do in their endeavour to argue that many assaults by whites upon black are not racist in their intent , merely matters of public order . |
| 29 | CAFOD , on behalf of the church in this country , are asking people to write to their MP to stress that this country should not be cutting aid , but rather seeing how we can increase it . |
| 30 | An exchange between a finisher and members of the 1888 House of Lords Select Committee on Sweating showed the difficulties of politicians and policy makers in understanding the nature of homework and their tendency to assume that such a worker did her work by hand only because she was too inefficient to do otherwise : |