Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 That need not cause mass suicide among the contractors , or imply that none of these projects will be built .
2 ‘ BAII has no knowledge of the circumstances leading to his arrest , and accordingly can make no comments , other than to state that nothing in the course of his employment has given rise to any question . ’
3 Then her hands would grow hot and she would pause , wipe them with a moist cloth so that she should not smear the finespun white cotton thread as she worked , and her thoughts of Tommaso would return ; they were very sweet to her , often enough , though when her daydreaming grew extravagant she would fall again into hopelessness , and fear that none of it might ever come true .
4 It is as though one has a newspaper delivered only for the football results on Saturdays and assumes that nothing at all happened on the other days of the week .
5 The user should close down the LIFESPAN system if it is running and ensure that none of the other stand-alone LIFESPAN utilities are running .
6 He said : ‘ In this country we tend to take our democratic rights for granted but this event gives Cleveland people a chance to make it clear they value those rights and believe that everyone in South Africa should have them too . ’
7 They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision .
8 But we believe we know what at this moment the country wants , and we believe it is for us in our strength to do what no other party can do at this moment and to say that we at any rate stand for peace …
9 She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother .
10 Mr Adamson , of Banklands Road , Darlington , has no connection with the former soldier but hoped that someone in the town might be able to help .
11 Mr Liddle accepts the need for some closures , but argues that none of the council 's own figures back the selection of Hustledown House .
12 As I remember , I was even readier to advance in class the theories of , for instance , F. L. Lucas on the decline of the Romantic ideal , or E.M.Y. Tillyard on poetry direct and oblique , while suspecting that none of the other girls ( or perhaps even the teachers ) had read the books in question .
13 While stating that none of these were matters which could be ignored , they were not such as to outweigh the possible value to the children of a thorough and independent investigation of the case .
14 While stressing that nothing in the circular should be taken as condoning a wilful breach of planning law , there is a highly significant qualification :
15 Hong Kong officials were quoted as saying that none of the deportees , the first to be sent back since Patten 's arrival , had offered resistance .
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