Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was in the hope of siphoning off this water that she put the beautiful white Ted-decorated house on the market as soon as it was finished . |
| 5 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 7 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 8 | Well if what you say about this information that was in the master bedroom is true , they might have every reason to come into the master bedroom to see if er the , who was sleeping in the . |
| 9 | We suggest through this chapter that the use of such concepts is essential for understanding the social processes through which classes are reproduced as social groups . |
| 10 | Most of their important critical texts , Edwards remarks , are theoretical , in that they prompt fundamental reflections about the basic nature of writing , even if , ‘ One notices about such writing that it does not necessarily offer itself as theory , that it is directed towards what we now call literature and not towards something else . ’ |
| 11 | The two organisations are not in fact connected and we apologise for any confusion that may have been caused . |
| 12 | ‘ I doubt whether you could understand how it feels to know for all eternity that the creations of hell are pursuing you , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 13 | But at least they did n't need to worry about any area that came under Michael Stein 's remit . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I do n't know of any government that has actually falsified figures . |
| 15 | My own society , SOLACE ( Society for the liberation of animals from cruelty and exploitation ) , claims no such thing and I do not know of any society that does . |
| 16 | The Scottish Typographical Circular reported of this conflict that " people are beginning to see that making women printers … will only unfit them for the active and paramount duties of female society " . |
| 17 | Consequently he can not approve of any building that wants to draw attention to itself . |
| 18 | have stressed against this view that there is socialisation and socialisation . |
| 19 | As against this view , however , Jensen and Murphy suggest with some plausibility that ‘ there are strong political and organizational forces that tend to define success in dimensions other than shareholder wealth and exert pressures for actions that reduce firm value . |
| 20 | Niklaus is 32 , although he looks no more than 20 , and so talked with gentle mockery about the influence of French climbing on his younger compatriots before announcing with some pride that there will be 1200 routes in the forthcoming Stockholm guide . |
| 21 | For his part Humphrys maintained with some justice that any binding provision would not be compatible with Iraq 's future independent status . |
| 22 | A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time . |
| 23 | It can not , however , be claimed with any certainty that it is a more accurate method . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it could be claimed with some justification that moral considerations were involved in Gandhi 's decision to fast and that he did what he thought he had to do in those situations . |
| 25 | On 12 May 1953 the American embassy reported with some concern that Churchill , in a wide-ranging speech on foreign affairs , had neglected to make the customary references to the Anglo-American alliance . |
| 26 | Inhabitants of the worst-hit tower blocks fled with such haste that their washing is still hanging out . |
| 27 | It is typical of Richard that he accepted the task with alacrity and succeeded with such brilliance that almost overnight he became recognized as a famous warrior . |
| 28 | Meredith hastily curbed her natural friendliness , reminding herself that she was n't at home now , gossiping to strangers and leaping into any car that came down the lane . |
| 29 | The young woman lay across the floor of her spotless kitchen , her skull smashed with such force that the brain was exposed . |
| 30 | Miss Jarman 's rasping voice cut through Jess 's picture of herself as a fairground tumbler and she repeated her story in a flat monotone , conscious of a depressing conviction that the more often she told it , the more tangled she was becoming in this battle that was all about other people 's money and injured pride . |