Example sentences of "[pers pn] that this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It seems to me that this explosion of energy has been drained of its radical potential , diverted into areas of service provision which should be the State 's concern . |
| 2 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 3 | It seems to me that this way of looking at things is the only one which allows us to understand the validity of the second law , and the heat death of each individual world , without invoking a unidimensional change of the entire universe from a definite initial state to a final state . ’ |
| 4 | Some of my colleagues have suggested to me that this account of the survival value of the god meme begs the question . |
| 5 | It seems to me that this difference in the structure of the schedules goes a long way towards explaining in industrial terms the relative stasis of British television subgenres like sitcom , crime series and soap opera , and the drive towards innovation found in the corresponding genres on US television . |
| 6 | They told me that this sort of thing happens , it 's part of training , and to stick in there and show the buggers they were wrong . ’ |
| 7 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 8 | There is neither Jewish nor Gentile bias in this chronicler of the Holy Spirit 's initiative in mission throughout the world , though his application of the famous ‘ blinding ’ passage of Isaiah 6 to Jewish leaders who refused to receive their Messiah , and his assertion , ‘ Be it known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the gentiles : they will listen ’ ( 28:25–28 ) , is suggestive of the direction in which the Christian mission would , for the most part , go . |
| 9 | I dashed across to the DC 's house to tell him that this train with several hundred refugees was standing in the station , and some shelter must be found for them . |
| 10 | He looked upwards now at the bunting stretched across the girders of the platform , then said , ‘ With a little imagination you know I could dismiss the Coronation and take it that this show of affection was all for my being twenty-one today . |
| 11 | Officials refused to indicate the exact origin of the material but did say that " experience tells us that this kind of material comes from Eastern Europe " . |
| 12 | He addresses Dame Sirith imperiously , and with a French expression : But Dame Sirith 's final words remind us that this courtliness of expression is located in a fabliau in which the actions and attitudes are as commercial ( pris , mede ) and as crude , sexually , as in any French counterpart : These lines do not quite move into the register of marked language that we have seen in the French fabliaux and shall see in Chaucer 's English fabliaux except in so far as references to women 's thighs do not find a place in the conventional rhetorical portrayal of a courtly lady . |
| 13 | It is a source of much satisfaction to us that this amount of interest in the exhibition is being taken by all classes . |
| 14 | Should it surprise us that this tale from the East Midlands should be taken into a largely religious anthology produced in the West Midlands ? |