Example sentences of "[pers pn] that the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My wife has informed me that the two boys who attacked you stole your handbag . ’ |
| 2 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 3 | Later , the knowledge filtered through to me that the two ruffians — escaped prisoners like myself , without a doubt — had attacked me solely on account of my fire . |
| 4 | The Minister will find it difficult to convince me that the new employers ' priority will be to match the existing and future pension rights of STG employees . |
| 5 | The Minister will find it difficult to convince me that the new employers ' priority will be to match the existing and future pension rights of STG employees . |
| 6 | However , Daphne told me that the tall spikes of flowers , resembling yellow lupins , last better if stem-rotting bacteria can be kept at bay . |
| 7 | It seems to me that the successful professionals make their money not be selling their wares , but by selling their skills — by writing books , running courses , making videos , holding seminars and giving demonstrations — in short , by teaching others how to do it . |
| 8 | Thus it seems to me that the general principles of object-relations through identification , object-cathexis , and internalization must be extended to the whole psychoanalytic theory of personality . |
| 9 | When dealing with previous Bills affecting the armed services , the Minister and his colleagues have always sought to assure me that the armed forces are keenly aware of the need to treat complainers — irrespective of age — in a sympathetic manner . |
| 10 | No one can persuade me that the 3,000 licensees who went to Blackpool to take part in a protest march during the week of the Conservative conference are all mindless militants . |
| 11 | It seemed to me that the hot compresses had not only prevented the pain , but had done so because there must be living matter there which was capable of being alleviated by pain . |
| 12 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 13 | It used to seem to me that the different ways I felt sometimes about ideas , courses of action and so on were like the differing political moods that countries go through . |
| 14 | I 'm not a card-carrying clown so I was n't admitted to the AGM , but a usually reliable source informs me that the main issues debated were amalgamation with the US-based World Clowns ' Federation — inevitable , I suppose , in the era of superunions — and charitable status . |
| 15 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
| 16 | It strikes me that the transformed cladists have changed little except the words . |
| 17 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 18 | It was perfectly clear to all four of them that the forensic skills , the intellectual abilities , the sheer weight of grey cellular matter , the brutalizing experience of countless similar quests , possessed by the real experts was infinitely greater than that of the mere professionals . |
| 19 | Next it is necessary for the agent to attend before the Examiners in parliament to satisfy them that the General Orders have been complied with , and this constitutes a heavy responsibility because the effect of non-compliance can be serious . |
| 20 | ‘ Despite a difficult trading position caused by a considerable drop in customer numbers , I am pleased to be able to tell you that the strenuous efforts of the management team , staff members of the associated Preservation Society have brought success in reducing costs to a level less than the revenue that we have earned , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Erm , now we , we can explain to you in more detail , but the finan I think Mr 's already said to you that the financial savings er , from such moves are not as productive as they were , so in sense we 're driven by strategy here , we 're driven by the fact that there is a private and there is an independent sector that is there , there is alternative methods of supply . |
| 22 | Some of the facts that 's been put forward today , I would remind that you that the financial rumblings of the D E at the moment about poll tax levels for this year , standing spending assessments , the increased capping powers that Mister Heseltine will bring forward will make it extremely difficult in this year . |
| 23 | I remind you that the local authorities have been concerned , in return for the core funding support , that free advice is given to farmers , and this has been the subject of discussion at various times . |
| 24 | Thank you that the painful experiences I have been through are no surprise to you . |
| 25 | I agree with him that the practical objections to taking this course are not sufficient to prevent this House from establishing the law in accordance with both principle and justice . |
| 26 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 27 | Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail . |
| 28 | It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function . |
| 29 | And now his experienced eye told him that the foremost ranks could be reached , but still he did not move , nor did any of the bowmen loose . |
| 30 | In his younger days his acquaintance with the anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin had suggested to him that the fundamental principles of social order ( for Radcliffe-Brown , the ‘ structure ’ and ‘ function ’ of social institutions ) might best be discerned in simple self-regulating communities without formalized governmental authority . |