Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Larry adds that his optimum rig would be two 4x10s , and listening to the tens perform under an extreme load does tend to qualify his argument . |
| 2 | It seems to err in moving the death of Archbishop Lyfing to 1019 ( C and E together speak strongly for 1020 ) , but D adds that his other name was Ælfstan and that he was very firm in counsel whether in matters of church or state . |
| 3 | He feels that art directors often have such set views about the subjects he photographs that his own creativity is suppressed . |
| 4 | In the book Marje writes that her 53-year marriage to husband Sidney had been devoid of sex . |
| 5 | Taskopruzade writes that his own father was licensed in by Hocazade , Hocazade by Fahreddin Acemi , Fahreddin Acemi by Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi and Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi by Sa 'd al-Din al-Taftazani : as Taskopruzade was himself licensed by his father , this list provides an academic genealogy for him as well . |
| 6 | He accepts that his contrary nature sometimes irritated the other members but feels his sacking contained an element of Gedge wanting to remove a strong influence from the group , an influence often opposed to his own . |
| 7 | He foresaw ‘ the many hardships , miseries and wants that my poor family was like to meet with … should I be taken from them , especially my poor blind child … . |
| 8 | A survey of British local governments by Blore ( 1987 ) concludes that our local bureaucrats , too , are staff maximizers . |
| 9 | The county council thinks that its proposed provision is the right approach and it 's a balanced approach in line erm with Secretary of State 's previously e stated wishes . |
| 10 | Akio Morita records that his fledgling company Sony was , in 1953 , able to buy a licence from Western Electric to develop transistor technology . |
| 11 | This guarantees that his own offspring have sufficient space and food in which to grow . |
| 12 | So , point six erm okay look at the sentences one and two under six , one is apparently ill-formed , herself left , except in I think some Irish dialects actually yes , well it has a rather special meaning where herself is given special status erm in the context , but in normal English , English herself left is ill-formed , but two , Florence saw herself is fine herself is a reflective pronoun refers that herself each other or one another , the other are reflective pronouns . |
| 13 | Sue insists that her new show will prove successful . |
| 14 | For the moment , therefore , the government insists that its state-owned energy firm , Petrobras , must hold a controlling interest . |
| 15 | While China insists that its open-door policy remains intact and continues to encourage investment from the West , it has revived a vocabulary of ideological struggle almost identical to that used in East Germany . |
| 16 | But he also insists that his main task was to deliver the prisoner to the torturers , who were specialists in interrogation with long experience in the service . |
| 17 | John Papworth , for example , remarks that their genuine adornments are neatness and cleanliness , for these suggest industry and cheerfulness , whereas ‘ the broken casement , the patched wall , the sunken roof , the hatch unhinged , the withered shrub , are corresponding testimonies of the husbandman 's relaxed energies and broken spirit ’ . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc has confirmed formation of the wholly-owned personal communicator unit FirstPerson Inc ( CI No 2,118 ) and says that its key focus will be on developing software that enables different types of digital devices to swap data and work together — it has in mind televisions , radios , satellites and computers — and to license the software and technology to other companies for use in their electronics products , putting it in direct competition with General Magic Inc , while mirroring some of the concepts of the Echelon Corp Local Operating Network ; boss of the new company Wayne Rosen said that FirstPerson has not ruled out collaborating with General Magic . |
| 19 | Du Pont says that its aerodynamic efficiency can cut about 10 minutes of biking time in a 180-kilometre run . |
| 20 | Although the company lost an indicated £35,000 , Acorn says that its financial results are ahead of plan . |
| 21 | Correction : Hewlett-Packard Co says that its new HP 9000 RISC server line should boost performance by up to 70% at the top end of its line , not 7% as reported ( UX No 380 ) . |
| 22 | Atlantic Richfield Co. says that its new petrol is as clean as methanol , and that it would be ready to start selling it in California by 1996 . |
| 23 | Laughing Stock says that its Red Dwarf : Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers has achieved the highest sell-in for an audio book since the BBC 's Blackadder . |
| 24 | Undaunted , Manalula says that her skilled team of nurses and public-health personnel ‘ aim to educate participants on issues such as contraceptives , public hygiene and moral support , apart from the material gains ’ . |
| 25 | Britain 's first woman in space says that her next mission is to encourage more women to become scientists . |
| 26 | Can I make a suggestion about , probably not relevant to B T but might be relevant to the other continuous jobs , if like health care it nearly follows the procedure that you 've got at the moment and that is that in that procedure you have somewhere a line that says that your continuous jobs at the beginning of the job , or early on in the job , in the master job file there is put a note of which parts of the procedure apply and which parts do n't , or how filing is done , or whatever bit is different , which allows you the flexibility for each job to have it 's own , to have it 's own small procedure that forms part of the master job file , that says this is how this one is done , if those differences are very small . |
| 27 | Well er the first one is that er er the Mr says that it those people with two mile away from this er tip er will not be affected . |
| 28 | More specifically , he puts the young reader in touch with the French impressionists in his rich illustrations for Charlotte Zolotow 's Mr Rabbit and the lovely present ( although , strangely , he says that his main influence here was the American naturalistic painter , Winslow Homer ) , and with the pop art of cinema and food packaging in In the night kitchen . |
| 29 | Cairns-Smith discusses , in more detail than I can accommodate here , early uses that his clay-crystal replicators might have had for proteins , sugars and , most important of all , nucleic acids like RNA . |
| 30 | The OPCS warns that its own Labour Force Surveys , probably the main source of information about ethnic minority populations , are ‘ subject to relatively high sampling error ’ in this field ( OPCS , 1985 , p. 1 ) . |