Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For example , it is necessary to hear only a brief phrase of some Grand Waltz by Tchaikovsky , Glinka or Strauss to know that steps of grande élévation are the object of the exercise ; to hear some slow pavane , minuet or saraband is to realise that an adage is being practised .
2 Dun & Bradstreet claims that business confidence has declined at the start of 1992 , according to other results of its latest survey .
3 In their 1968 study of the frequency of use of British scientific journals , as measured by requests to the British Library , Martyn & Gilchrist found that Nature was the highest ranked journal , and the highest ranked earth science journal was Journal of Petrology ( ranking one hundred and fifteenth ) .
4 Suppose , in some population , a particular site in the DNA is completely random and unspecified : that is , it is equally likely to be C , G , A , or T. Suppose that individuals with A or T , say , are fitter than those with C or G , and that those with A are fitter than those with T. Full specification requires that all individuals have A at the relevant site .
5 In a similar study , Lawani & Bayer found that 14% of the highly rated papers in their study of cancer research were not highly rated by peers , and that only 2.3% of their highly rated papers were never cited .
6 Conversation was easier now , and although Alison noticed that Carson managed to keep it centred around her life and background she no longer tried to push and probe .
7 It was shortly after his time at Oxford , on his first journey to the Continent , that Hobbes found that others were dissatisfied with scholasticism ; and we have already noted that an interest in method was characteristic of the seventeenth century .
8 Genscher told a news conference that Germany believed that Albania should be accepted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the Council of Europe and should receive aid from the Group of 24 .
9 At a news conference on Dec. 8 , Vellayati and Dumas reaffirmed their governments'commitment to recent UN resolutions on the Gulf crisis , although Vellayati added that Iran would not participate in any war against Iraq or another country in the region .
10 Nothing could be further from the truth than Kate Millett 's accusation that Freud believed that women 's destiny was a simple outcome of their biology .
11 At the root of the mixture of emotions that Kylie felt that day was the very real feat that despite the fame and fabulous wealth that might lie ahead of her , her future might not allow her to ever again be part of as precious and close a group of friends as she was during her Neighbours days .
12 Baltaci , noting the conflict between the fact that the medrese had apparently already been founded by 870 and the fact that Mecdi says that Molla Husrev did not go off to Bursa to found the medrese until 877 , suggests that the was written in anticipation of the actual building of the medrese .
13 It seems natural to assume that Mecdi means that Fahreddin Acemi died in 870 , and some relatively early evidence for this date is found in two of the manuscripts of the Anonymous Chronicle ( Uruc ) .
14 Although Bhutto stressed that Pakistan was not seeking military confrontation with India , she reiterated that her government would continue to be " steadfast " in its support for the right of self-determination by the people of Kashmir .
15 Revenues generated from VAXes grew 22% to £11.1m , and although Turner said that licence sales ‘ have really slowed ’ because people are n't buying the machines much any more , a high proportion of the £11.1m came from maintenance and services to the group 's existing 500 or so VAX customers .
16 In March 1991 , although Aquino confirmed that Imelda Marcos continued to be banned from the country , she suggested that she would be allowed to return at some point in order to face corruption charges .
17 Although Fletcher admitted that England have not come up to standard over the last three months , he also believes that a poor itinerary and a lack of turning pitches in English domestic cricket is largely to blame for the string of dismal performances .
18 It is in this sense that Derrida argues that Husserl 's Origin of Geometry sets up ‘ the possibility of history as the possibility of language ’ whereby ‘ difference would be transcendental ’ : writing , in the general significance which Derrida gives it of a differential marking , must be the condition of any historicity .
19 Although Bair claims that de Beauvoir was ‘ more at ease in the company of men ’ she nevertheless enjoyed ‘ intense ’ and ‘ warm physical friendships ’ with women .
20 Notice that Barro assumes that FEDV t and do not exert an independent influence on UN t .
21 Although Pius conceded that popes were not exercising their full authority in these letters , if a view was expressed it was ‘ no longer [ to ] be a matter of free debate among theologians ’ .
22 It was through this process that Dicey felt that England had escaped the threat to liberty presented by administrative law .
23 Keeton , for example , suggests that Dicey felt that Parliament was in no danger of abusing its powers ‘ because it was a combination of diverse elements , linked together by an intricate system of ‘ checks and balances ’ … and also because Englishmen possessed , to a markedly greater degree than other peoples , a mysterious political instinct' .
24 It is only at the foot of the aircraft steps , with the propellers starting to down out his protests , that Leonard discovers that Maria will not be coming with him to London .
25 As a result of customer demand and acquisitions , it now focusses its skills on Ingres Corp , Informix Corp , and Progress Software Corp software , plus a little Oracle-related business , although Bland said that Radius would definitely consider buying an Oracle Corp specialist .
26 Yet it was hardly surprising that Greenpeace insisted that Mr Lamont was still a red box Chancellor , not a green box Chancellor .
27 The prose in this section starts to function like poetry , ordering images and rhythmical cadences to convey an intimation of the way that Rolle believed that things are .
28 Although Dworkin admits that addictions to personal growth are on the increase , she maintains they form only a small minority — about 5 per cent — of overall addictions and are not necessarily unhealthy .
29 To this documentary evidence may be added the fact that Sa'deddin states that Molla Arab was intimately involved as Mufti in the peace negotiations in 895–6/1490–1 which brought an end to the war between the Ottomans and the Mamluks over control of Cilicia .
30 ( well — neither Johnsen nor Fjortoft changed that i think )
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