Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In actual fact I have seen valuations which are so wide of the mark ( more than 50% in one case ) that one suspects that some valuers know little about the property market and even less about rebuilding costs , which constitute the basis for insurance . |
| 2 | Later studies failed to find any response , for the most part , although one found that two out of 16 schizophrenics responded . |
| 3 | And everyone knows that such ‘ idol-worshippers ’ abound in the ‘ East ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ instant yen ’ and ‘ the searches for Shamans in the desert ’ , but unfortunately he offers his readers no Good Cult Guide and one feels that many of them may continue to go astray . |
| 5 | Experiments have shown that we tend to hear speech as more rhythmical than it actually is , and one suspects that this is what the proponents of the stress-timed rhythm theory have been led to do in their auditory analysis of English rhythm . |
| 6 | One watches the 100 metres , that legendary dash with its magical ten-second touchstone , and one knows that these men , these Christies and Lewises and Burrells , are running toward the destiny of becoming the fastest human being in the world . |
| 7 | A salesman whose last two months ' returns fall below the required norm may be thought to be failing , until one knows that this is the first time that it has happened in five years . |
| 8 | Whilst its coverage of public affairs ‘ news ’ was not comparable to the Daily Mirror — the amount of space devoted to such news declined between 1927 and 1937 by 59 square inches or 5% — that decline is one of 19% if one assumes that that content should have expanded in line with the expansion of total editorial space . |
| 9 | Although the aims of the charter are laudable , ensuring adequate social security , the right of employees to join a union and the right to strike , among other things , they could be unworkable if one assumes that some closer links between the emerging countries of the Eastern bloc and the West — including German reunification . |
| 10 | This difficulty does not arise if one assumes that both processes co-exist from the beginning of life , that they both have adaptive functions , and they are not necessarily in conflict with one another — even though they may on occasion be . |
| 11 | That interpretation of an extent is consistent with Anderson 's arguments , if one assumes that working-class life in Lancashire towns was more stable in the later period and somewhat less harsh , removing the absolute necessity for short-term instrumental calculation , while at the same time making predictions about the likelihood of reciprocal support in the future more reliable . |
| 12 | If one assumes that any paddler runs a risk of shoulder damage when the shoulder angle is forced beyond 180 degrees , then a canoeist can choose to paddle at high risk with an arm position close to the limit or at low risk . |
| 13 | The magnitude of the special needs post-holder 's task becomes clear if one considers that these skills are to be geared to assisting classroom teachers of varying lengths of career experience ( often considerably longer than that of the ‘ qualified ’ supporter ) and range of subject specialities ( beyond the supporter 's expertise ) — teachers already under pressure from many directions and with ambivalent feelings about ‘ hawing problems ’ and ‘ being seen as in need of help ’ ; and if one considers that the supporter 's extended task is to deepen these colleagues ' understanding of ‘ special ’ learning needs , to enhance their skills , discover and develop their strengths and the confidence that the professional know.how they possess can be summoned for responding more appropriately to most of the behavioural , emotional and learning difficulties they encounter . |
| 14 | There is a danger of over-simplification here , especially if one forgets that such traits as introvert/extrovert and optimist/pessimist are , at best , rough indications — they are continua , not two set points . |
| 15 | And this would be an insupportable thing to know about oneself , if one thought that this implied some superiority over the people around one . |
| 16 | For if one supposes that all good things become valueless if you remove the pleasure , one may infer that all the value must lie in the pleasure . |
| 17 | Not so strange , perhaps if one reflects that all moral dramas need villains as well as heroes , and that Leavis above all offered moral drama . |
| 18 | If one accepts that comparable hypotheses may explain differential phenomenology ( such as the different experiences of motion-perception previously described ) , then his work shows that it is in principle possible for a creature incapable of experiencing distinct shapes to be aware of motion and to ascribe it correctly to an individual object . |
| 19 | And everybody knew that that would be a great journey . |
| 20 | Similarly , if anyone thinks that random killings are a way of weaning Catholics away from Sinn Fein and aspirations to Irish unity , a second 's reflection would banish the idea . |
| 21 | And if anyone believes that such flexible working arrangements limit the appeal of the practitioner , then they are mistaken . |
| 22 | If anything disturbed that natural covering , the vegetation would follow a pattern of development that led through a series of recognizable stages to the mature climax once again : |
| 23 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 24 | But everyone sees that this is absurd . |
| 25 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 26 | The atmosphere is hardly lightened when guitarist Alex Lee takes a pissed stagediver to task , but one suspects that this is precisely the kind of turmoil Strangelove get their kicks from . |
| 27 | Because everyone realises that all research is flawed , not attaining a quota of bon mots might be construed as a sign of inexpertise or even worse , weakness , Then , too , there are those who believe that catcalls truly pass for constructive criticism . |
| 28 | Such measures would , I feel , bring forth an immediate and enthusiastic response , because everyone knows that that is exactly what is needed . |
| 29 | One considers oneself able to be a Christian while holding to these principles because one believes that these very principles are fundamental to Christianity , or at least not incommensurate with it . |
| 30 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |