Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [that] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thinks that more images of Black and Asian girls in the media would help to change some of the racist ideas and stereotypes that exist . |
| 2 | She estimates that these actions would enable the company to sell 5,800 pairs of trousers each month . |
| 3 | Sharon defended the decision , she argues that few companies have the resources to undertake the hefty capital investment needed . |
| 4 | Often a mother can understand her daughter 's needs , if not in detail at least in broad terms , and at the same time she knows that these needs are in conflict with traditional honour and respectability . |
| 5 | She believes that these changes lie not in what is learned but more in how it is learned . |
| 6 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 7 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
| 8 | He supposes that some frogs are sitting on the coping stones of a circular lily pond . |
| 9 | Indeed there were no significant accuracy differences between driving instructors and 13-year-olds with no driving experience ; he concludes that such judgments are based on general experience about the nature of moving objects . |
| 10 | He concludes that these systems show a number of deficiencies in dealing with UDC numbers unless written with UDC in mind . |
| 11 | a ‘ cross-curricular ’ view focuses on the school : it emphasises that all teachers ( of English and of other subjects ) have a responsibility to help children with the language demands of different subjects on the school curriculum : otherwise areas of the curriculum may be closed to them . |
| 12 | Yet he accepts that these countries need small , defensively equipped armies that could make a potential attacker think twice . |
| 13 | Now why I mean do you think it matters that these things are so that these things are so , that these things which we thought were in , you know private to you , and not available to other people so easily , why do you think it matters that they actually are apparently in return for mo payment , are available to anyone ? |
| 14 | He says that many students knew very little about the drugs they were taking . |
| 15 | Thus he says that many varieties of domesticated species , fancy pigeon breeds for example , are monstrous not adaptive ; they can only be maintained by artificial feeding and breeding , including selective breeding ; they are quite unlike wild , natural and adaptive varieties and even more unlike wild species . |
| 16 | But following a shake up last year in internal procedures , he says that most applications for cash are dealt with in a couple of months at the most . |
| 17 | He says that any cavers worried for their health should get a medical check up . |
| 18 | When David Bailey was sixteen years old , he saw a photograph of Picasso 's paintings in Life magazine ; he says that those images changed his life . |
| 19 | He says that some definitions , such as that of ‘ place ’ , do not express the causes of what they define , for there are none . |
| 20 | He says that some members of Olympic committees will have to stay in hotels . |
| 21 | He says that some mines are picked up by children , they explode when the children play with them , causing terrible injuries . |
| 22 | He says that some children ask , but then find that their headmaster refuses ! |
| 23 | First , it allows that many kinds of circumstances can contribute to the course of events , and secondly it enables us to understand how these may combine to bring about dramatic and unexpected social changes which Althusser calls ‘ ruptures ’ . |
| 24 | It allows that some definitions will be of greater ‘ priority and intensity ’ than others and this has been taken to imply that the definitions will differ in their subjective interpretation by those who receive them ( see Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 ) . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) It happens that many systems of equations , particularly those of some physical relevance , have simple behaviour for extreme values of a parameter . |
| 26 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 27 | and I second agenda and erm we ask for your attention to para three point four er which is the financial part of this budget really and it says that some contingencies in nursery schools should be increased , erm that it is actually allowed for in the later budget erm the tax payer budget will be . |
| 28 | It says that several customers have placed orders for KRS1 computers with more than 32 processors , including one from the Cornell Theory Center . |
| 29 | This is not a useful approach , because it assumes that all forms of intelligence are of the same qualitative type . |
| 30 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |