Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 2 | To accurately imitate what I can see will require that I use smaller shapes than those used in other parts of the painting . |
| 3 | To accurately imitate what I can see will require that I use smaller shapes than those used in other parts of the painting . |
| 4 | I see , on re-reading this minute , that I promised further sections on the weekend and holidays . |
| 5 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 6 | She even pretends that she has higher principles than many of the other characters in the play : |
| 7 | Recognising that relocation may have a worse effect on married staff than on single workers , it is not unusual to find that they receive higher allowances . |
| 8 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 9 | The early bipedal hominids were smaller than us so it is not surprising that they had smaller skulls , but there are no good grounds for supposing that men have gradually been evolving into creatures of greater and greater intelligence . |
| 10 | Some tasks may be logically more complex than others in the sense that they subsume simpler tasks . |
| 11 | On the negative side it should be recalled that many Belorussian nationalists were more pro-Western than specifically Belorussian in their emphasis , while many others became so identified with the Bolshevik Party that they shed earlier inclinations . |
| 12 | Executives have discovered that they achieve better results in the workplace if they fall in love with a colleague , according to an American report . |
| 13 | The latest report on the employment of black graduates also concludes that they experience greater difficulties than white graduates in obtaining employment ; in addition , the jobs obtained appear to be inferior to those gained by white graduates ( CRE , 1987 ) . |
| 14 | Conversely , the Profitboss accepts that they have greater skills in packing , driving and cleaning than him . |
| 15 | The NI has always been concerned to point out what is wrong with the Green Revolution : that it favours richer farmers who can afford its high-yield seeds and extra fertiliser ; that its ecological impact is worrying . |
| 16 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 17 | The EC 's delegate to the talks , Pablo Benavides , said afterwards that he thought further talks would be unproductive and that the two parties should refer their dispute to the International Court of Justice . |