Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I once gave a speech where I said that most of recorded music was like stuffed birds in a cage , that do n't sing . |
| 2 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 3 | FALL-OUT at Credit Lyonnais Laing , where I hear that 12 staff from UK research , equity sales , dealing and settlements were bid farewell a week ago . |
| 4 | If research can be done in Holland and the USA , I do n't see why it should n't be done in Britain , except I suspect that some British police forces are just hostile to outsiders . |
| 5 | I live in hope that the Institute will be clamping down on such practices , although I fear that this will increase the cost of an audit for the smaller business . |
| 6 | Although I say that this story could really happen , I doubt that there would be the character of Simon in reality as I think that a boy his age would realise the dangerous situation he was in , and join the other boys . |
| 7 | Although I feel that one theme in To Kill A Mocking Bird is racial prejudice , I feel that this idea broadens out to the main theme for the whole novel of man 's inhumanity to man . |
| 8 | Watching her sleep , however , is not the most stimulating experience I 've had of late , although I realise that certain New York film-makers would have shot ten solid reels of it and begged for more . |
| 9 | ‘ In some ways , they are usually well organised , although I think that one of the features of the indie scene , if one can use that expression , is that bands are used to doing a lot of basic things for themselves . |
| 10 | Which really is the worst sort of hype , because although I think that some of the things I did in The Birthday Party were good and some of them were great , some of them were just , ‘ So what ? ’ |
| 11 | The neck features a volute behind the nut in order to maximise strength at this infamous weak spot , although I suspect that this is done more in the service of art than anything else , maintaining as it does a classic line . |
| 12 | ALTHOUGH I agree that many industries are run better by private enterprise than by the state , I think there should only be one bank . |
| 13 | In my view the Tate should probably divide into two separate entities , one for British art and one for Modern art , although I presume that certain British artists would be present in both collections . |
| 14 | Work would be a crude er a crude assessment er between nineteen ei nineteen ninety one census of employment data and nineteen ninety one census data would indicate that there is a greater inflow of commuters now than in nineteen eighty one , although I accept that that is crude and I would n't like |
| 15 | He was still smirking , so I presumed that some juvenile guessing-game was required of me . |
| 16 | We must have the proposals in it , so I hope that all my hon. Friends will support the motion . |
| 17 | Such help is certainly required , so I hope that this facility of the Territorial Army will not be wasted . |
| 18 | ‘ Once I realised that this novel was going to be a kind of mammoth , I decided to forgo writing the series . |
| 19 | Money and effort that should have been devoted to supporting the ordinary people in Highfields has been wasted on power politics and I agree that it 's time surely to put an end to that disgrace now there is a certain logic in Mr amendment , it basically says let us put the implementation of council policy in the hands of the director of education , let him take executive control and let us take politics out of it and if I thought that that would do what both Mr and myself want to happen I would support . |
| 20 | ‘ If I hear that one more time I shall begin to believe it myself ! ’ |
| 21 | Two — when the laird complained that Pennant described how rents drained the Highland economies without saying how they should be refurbished , Johnson said , in effect , that Pennant was obliged to report , not to cure ; ‘ If I tell that many of the Highlanders go bare-footed , I am not obliged to tell how they may get shoes . ’ |
| 22 | If I used that particular eyepiece on my 76-mm refractor , I would still obtain a magnification of around × 600 — but the image would be so faint that it would be completely useless . |
| 23 | Perhaps I will convey a better idea of the tone of those evenings if I say that regular visitors included the likes of Mr Harry Graham , valet-butler to Sir James Chambers , and Mr John Donalds , valet to Mr Sydney Dickenson . |
| 24 | For my purposes , it suffices if I say that one of the questions was whether an original lessee is liable to pay a rent which has been increased by a variation in the terms of the lease reached between the assignee and the landlord . |
| 25 | If I do that that 's five hours I 'll have built up in one week . |
| 26 | But I think I would be giving you the wrong impression if I suggested that most of the evaluation studies with which I 've been concerned have involved this kind of conclusion , or this kind of result . |
| 27 | If I learn that any man went missing today he 'll need to satisfy me where he was . ’ |
| 28 | What if I propose that that 's a true record ? |
| 29 | The idea seemed too melodramatically absurd , until I recalled that all melodrama has its basis in the lurid facts of earlier generations . |
| 30 | But I will not rest until I ensure that this never happens again to other young people . |