Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] that [num] " in BNC.

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1 In his statement , Subba Row , who is 57 years old , stressed that he believes that five years in office is sufficient , and that negotiating the International Cricket Conference agreement on South Africa , announced in January , was quite enough to be remembered by .
2 The Minister will know from many of the schemes that he visits that one of the carrots that they hold out to young people is the ability to drive vehicles off road and eventually to train for a full licence .
3 According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony .
4 And he shows that 30 June is the only date possible because the ritual , political , economic calendar is so full of appointments deemed ( in that culture ) to be pre-conditions of successful cultivation , that really 30 June is the only possible day for planting maize .
5 The central " roundel " is not round ; the outer , stencilled , circular band is squashed and poorly centred ( thus effecting the irregular drawing of the band of superposed triangles ) ; and it appears that two trees and one animal have been omitted .
6 He invited people to sign a declaration : ‘ I , the undersigned , promise to learn ( it ) if it appears that 10 million people have given the same promise . ’
7 ( 1 ) ( a ) A licensing board shall refuse an application of the type described in subsection ( 2 ) below if it finds that one or more of the following grounds for refusal , being competent grounds , applies to it ( in ) that the applicant , or the person on whose behalf or for whose benefit the applicant will manage the premises or , in the case of an application to which section 11 of this Act applies , the applicant or the employee or agent named in the application is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence ; ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not suitable or convenient for the sale of alcoholic liquor , having regard to their location , their character and condition , the nature and extent of the proposed use of the premises , and the persons likely to resort to the premises ; ( c ) that the use of the premises for the sale of alcoholic liquor is likely to cause undue public nuisance , or a threat to public order and safety ; ( d ) that , having regard to the facilities of the same or similar kind already available in the locality , or to facilities of the same or similar kind , in respect of which the provisional grant of a new licence is in force , which are to be provided in the locality , the grant of an application would result in the Over-provision of such facilities ; and otherwise shall grant the application .
8 He ca n't say for sure , but he thinks that one of the fillings looks like Continental work , using a technique that 's not widely practised in Britain .
9 But he notes that three-quarters of the dose would be from heavy ions , whose biological effects are ‘ poorly understood ’ .
10 Because he thinks that one day you might help his son . ’
11 Is it not because he believes that 2.5 million unemployed is ’ a price worth paying ’ ?
12 Radio frequency ( r.f. ) circuits can also have their own quirks , especially when one considers that two adjacent copper tracks can act as an air-spaced capacitor !
13 This is obvious when one considers that two identical copies of a blueprint clearly contain the same information , but two identical cars are not the same car .
14 My hon. Friend is right , and when one recalls that one of the world 's biggest employers was the Red Army , one can read a lot into that country 's full employment policy .
15 And so is that instant of anticipation when it seems that two bodies must collide , brutally , and one is helpless to stop it .
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