Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were remarkable figures then , but almost 25 years on we beat them fairly handsomely , in a car which , although in a pretty healthy stage of tune ( probably around 350bhp ) , has nothing that any Cobra owner could n't have bought over the counter , and which is still perfectly useable on the road in small doses . |
| 2 | Family tradition — that fund of oral folklore which passes on half-garbled stories , legends and rumours to succeeding generations — has it that one Titford died as a pirate . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been seen around London lately with both John D. Hansom and Roderick Luckey , and rumour has it that both men want to marry you . |
| 4 | Maori tradition has it that these words were spoken by chief Ngatoroirangi when he first arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia in the great Arawa canoe : I arrive where unknown earth is under my feet ; I arrive where a new sky is above me . |
| 5 | It worries us that many farmers appear to be paid for doing nothing . |
| 6 | Tod warns her that such talk is sinful . |
| 7 | A correspondent in Nottingham assures me that this year every police vehicle and every ambulance in the county carries on both sides a large photograph of the Chief Constable , Mr C. McLachlan , enjoining temperance . |
| 8 | This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers . |
| 9 | A more basic defect when used for R&D projects it that both methods assume a finite and predictable outcome from every job . |
| 10 | A more basic defect when used for R&D projects it that both methods assume a finite and predictable outcome from every job . |
| 11 | What convinces me that this child is deluded is the conflicting reports of the so-called apparition . |
| 12 | The two young men , Guglielmo and Ferrando , are teased by Don Alfonso , who tells them that all women are the same — fundamentally faithless by nature . |
| 13 | ‘ My experience tells me that few teams have come from outside the top five after Christmas and won the League . |
| 14 | But nothing you can point to in your present situation tells you that this situation is not one in which you are mistaken . |
| 15 | But Chinese philosophy ( well , the odd book about it , anyway ) tells him that great opportunity and great danger are two sides of the same coin . |
| 16 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 17 | But Planck 's quantum principle tells us that each gamma ray quantum has a very high energy , because gamma rays have a very high frequency , so it would not take many quanta to radiate even ten thousand megawatts . |
| 18 | Experience tells us that many people who take up jogging , cycling , and other aerobic routines often sustain injuries , or simply give up after a short time . |
| 19 | As we saw in the last chapter , quantum mechanics tells us that all particles are in fact waves , and that the higher the energy of a particle , the smaller the wavelength of the corresponding wave . |
| 20 | A description in G.Paynes ' Collectania Cantiana tells us that four vases of black ware , one of reddish colour , two cups of imitation Samian ware , two black paterae and the neck of a large goblet with handle were found at a depth of four feet at the feet of ten human skeletons . |
| 21 | Indeed , general relativity tells us that any agency put in to oppose gravity must have energy . |
| 22 | Does he know that thousands of construction workers in Wales are out of work , yet Shelter Cymru tells us that 63,000 families in the Principality have experienced homelessness in the past year ? |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 25 | ‘ Her courageous vigil reminds them that one day the atrocities of the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( the junta ) will be only a gruesome memory . ’ |
| 26 | A fifteen-second refresher gives you that vital pause which will enable you to speechread for longer stretches at a time than would be possible otherwise . |
| 27 | GERALD BRODRIBB 'S article on wicketkeeper-bowlers in the February issue and Jack Burrell 's interesting letter on the same subject in March reminds one that another wicketkeeper able to turn over a respectable arm was Warwickshire 's Geoff Humpage , whose most unusual bowling feat occurred in the Warwickshire v Gloucestershire match at Edgbaston in 1980 . |
| 28 | Discussion of the benefits to the manufacturer of vertical separation and of imposing restraints on downstream firms reminds us that one way the whole issue can be thought of is as a principal-agent problem of delegation . |
| 29 | Reference back to Section 8.1 reminds us that these conditions will maximize the general relativistic precession of the pulsar 's orbit . |
| 30 | Table 16–3 reminds us that some government expenditure is financed by borrowing . |