Example sentences of "[verb] that this [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from . |
| 2 | Recent moves to establish a world standard in memory cards suggest that this kind of publishing may soon extend to desktop computers of all kinds as well as handheld reference devices . |
| 3 | R. W. Gibson and J. A. Pickett of Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden believe their discovery to be the first example of a food crop plant using insect pheromones in this way , and suggest that this mode of protection could be introduced to cultivated species ( Nature . |
| 4 | Nor does the evidence of a renewed upsurge of potentially revolutionary protest from below in the immediate pre-war years suggest that this source of their inhibition would fade with time . |
| 5 | Other writers suggest that this reprioritizing of the goals is sensible , as the individual has devoted too much energy to career and too little to family , friends and outside interests . |
| 6 | We suggest that this sort of service led by fully trained clinical psychologists who are able to evaluate and adapt their approach to the particular needs of general practice should be explored further . |
| 7 | Again I suggest that this line of argument is unsound . |
| 8 | It has to be stressed that this method of connection is only acceptable if the mains transformer is a type which has accurately matched secondary windings which are intended for use in this way . |
| 9 | Poplack ( 1980 ) demonstrated that this type of behaviour is characteristic of fluent bilinguals , and is not motivated just by " incomplete knowledge " of one of the languages . |
| 10 | The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it . |
| 11 | It is dependent not so much on the generous staffing levels of PNP Phase 1 ( though that obviously helped a great deal ) as on a combination of a degree of staffing flexibility and a basic preparedness to accept that this kind of role is important and needs to be built into a school 's staffing arrangements under whatever label is deemed appropriate . |
| 12 | The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end . |
| 13 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 14 | We propose that this assembly of areas constitutes the functional anatomy of the ‘ articulatory loop ’ . |
| 15 | It is claimed that this method of control is the most simple . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope the people who stole those wheels realise that this sort of thing has a knock on effect , ’ she added . |
| 17 | In the PIMS book , Buzzell and Gale ( 1987 ) say that this measure of performance was highly correlated with five-year averages for accounting ROIs . |
| 18 | I say that this type of equipment is necessary because until we can be sure all major rockets and missiles have gone , there will always be a chance of such offensive capabilities ‘ falling into the wrong hands ’ and that may result in terrible consequences . |
| 19 | But others say that this definition of rape will undermine the progress made so far in getting the courts to take rape seriously . |
| 20 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 21 | Now I acknowledge that this kind of exegesis might be disturbing for some , but I believe that it is important for us as modern Christians to feel the force of this criticism which has thrown fresh light on the Scriptures as we have received them . |
| 22 | His friend Lauder once attended such a service and was moved to comment that this assembling of the deaf was an affecting spectacle : |
| 23 | In other departments the approach to assessment was deliberately kept as informal and flexible as possible , as in the following extended quotation from the Head of Drama at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ , which illustrates that this type of apparent informality can be just as thorough and searching , if not more so , than many supposedly more objective methods : |
| 24 | Whatever the status of this piece of research in modern psychoanalysis , it needs only a cursory glance at the problem pages of women 's magazines , particularly those for an older readership , to find that this syndrome of the woman who considers herself happily married , yet is bewildered by the concept of orgasm which she herself has never experienced , is still familiar . |
| 25 | ( 1981 ) found that this type of migrant was n't opposed to further growth in the new neighbourhood . |
| 26 | Yet a survey study of the 1983 election found that this section of the electorate was the most right-wing of all on issue questions about privatization , incentives versus equality , trade union rights , and comprehensive schools , and that over 70 per cent of them voted Conservative in the election . |
| 27 | He hinted at the unlikelihood of Jack Pertwee 's being married that day and was inwardly amused to observe that this piece of information — the fact that Carter would be deprived of his cold chicken and champagne — distressed him more than Hatton 's death . |
| 28 | We might think that this change of life would bring joy primarily to the person who is redeemed . |
| 29 | Do you think that this sort of attitude is probably true today , that the kind of things we learn about child rearing are not the things we put into practise when we actually have children to bring up ourselves ? |
| 30 | ‘ I — er — I do n't really think that this sort of thing is exactly my style , ’ she told him unhappily . |