Example sentences of "[pron] [that] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We should satisfy ourselves that any work beyond this was necessary because a restricted repair was not practical and re-roofing in part or in full was the only effective method of repair .
2 a and remind ourselves that this gift of God in th the Holy Spirit , the baptism of the spirit , it is not an optional extra , it 's not something for super saint , it 's not something for special people , or for certain types of people , it is a , not an optional extra , it is God 's purpose for every one of his children !
3 My recent visit has convinced me that that kind of solution is now dead .
4 It seems to me that that attention to the moment is significant of the great work that you do for this particular charity .
5 For the sake of this exercise , it matters little that , as a Soviet planner , I fail to narrow the gap between my compressor technology and yours ; nor does it concern me that one rouble of imported Western equipment requires five roubles in investment support : if the six roubles I invest produce fifty roubles of output , how have I injured myself ?
6 Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly .
7 The Whips had a difficult job and were as usual a good body of men , but the accounts sent in to me showed me that each man in conducting this inquiry adopted a different emphasis according to his own character .
8 It was once explained to me that most Asians in Yorkshire do not play cricket anyway , but that those who did were genuinely encouraged to join Yorkshire League clubs .
9 It seems to me that this explosion of energy has been drained of its radical potential , diverted into areas of service provision which should be the State 's concern .
10 But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline .
11 It seems to me that this way of looking at things is the only one which allows us to understand the validity of the second law , and the heat death of each individual world , without invoking a unidimensional change of the entire universe from a definite initial state to a final state . ’
12 Some of my colleagues have suggested to me that this account of the survival value of the god meme begs the question .
13 It seems to me that this difference in the structure of the schedules goes a long way towards explaining in industrial terms the relative stasis of British television subgenres like sitcom , crime series and soap opera , and the drive towards innovation found in the corresponding genres on US television .
14 They told me that this sort of thing happens , it 's part of training , and to stick in there and show the buggers they were wrong . ’
15 He asked me that same question at the conference but , like Pontius Pilate , has not stayed to report my answer .
16 Given that privacy is plausibly one of the necessary conditions for being an explication of consciousness ( see below ) , it seems to me that any establishment of an interesting sense of machine privacy must be relevant .
17 It is precisely because of them that any progress at all has been accomplished in matters of racial discourse .
18 He convinced himself that speaking Italian to Franco presented a good opportunity to learn and therefore he should take up the challenge .
19 What will give you that extra bite of interest is something like — and here I stop and open my indexed notebook of Victoriana ( and I advise you to keep a similar book for your chosen period ) and I find under " B " : boiled mutton on the sideboard for breakfast .
20 , you are with us today and I assure you that all members of of Council join me in conveying our love , affection and good wishes to you .
21 remind you that all money at the moment goes either to first which is n't quite so bad cos they 're family but a vast amount goes into and , both of whom have therefore access to our commercial sensitive , for want of a better term , information and we want to control that .
22 ‘ As to that machine paying for itself , let me tell you that one side of one tube alone has thirty-nine thousand rivets to be inserted .
23 When we tell you that baked beans on toast ( as long as the toast is made with wholemeal bread ) is one of the best high-fibre meals you can eat , it should give great reassurance to those who enjoy the more homely delights of the table .
24 I do n't know , I do n't know , although I ought to warn you that another way of interpreting the Greek would be , but now a man wishes to be another approached that man .
25 I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation .
26 There is neither Jewish nor Gentile bias in this chronicler of the Holy Spirit 's initiative in mission throughout the world , though his application of the famous ‘ blinding ’ passage of Isaiah 6 to Jewish leaders who refused to receive their Messiah , and his assertion , ‘ Be it known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the gentiles : they will listen ’ ( 28:25–28 ) , is suggestive of the direction in which the Christian mission would , for the most part , go .
27 However , I must remind you that earlier versions of the principle of nationality , which I describe in my book as the ‘ revolutionary-democratic ’ and ‘ liberal ’ , are not so based , although there are overlaps .
28 I must here point out to you that any attempts on the part of people outside the project to have any contact with the child will be vigorously rejected .
29 ‘ I must warn you that any mention of Clare agitates your grandmother .
30 I put it to you that any alteration of Church Lane at any point between the A Nineteen and the centre of the village would be seriously detrimental to the existing character of that area .
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