Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [modal v] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the gas has been cut off , which is an appalling piece of vindictiveness on the part of some public servant who ought to know that writers of talent have better things to do with their time than remember dates on bits of paper delivered in brown envelopes like a trade circular . |
| 2 | Increased productivity is equally the responsibility of management , who must ensure that materials , plant and scaffolding are available and in the right location , adequate instructions are given on time , the work place is prepared and the programme of work for other trades correlated and integrated . |
| 3 | It demands the identification of a coordinator who should ensure that consultation with staff is genuine and that they feel involved ; explain processes clearly from the outset ; help teachers draw up a realistic timetable and ensure that deadlines are met ; provide advice and keep a check on what is happening at each stage ; contact people outside the school who might be brought in to help ; try to ensure that the review and the development are rigorous and systematic ; and make some evaluation of the effectiveness of the GRIDS method after about twelve months . |
| 4 | ‘ But it was n't Finn , ’ said Lydia , who could see that Betty , with the facts before her , still preferred her own earlier version and intended to believe it . |
| 5 | And even if they had , who could say that Christ had not died for them also ? |
| 6 | In our crazy ‘ value — free ’ society the ‘ shame ’ is now attached only to those who dare to say that homosexuality is less than ‘ gay ’ . |
| 7 | But when Uccello died in his eighties , ‘ He left a daughter who could design , and a wife who used to say that Paolo would remain the night long in his study to work out the lines of his perspective , and that when she called him to come to rest , he replied , ‘ Oh what a sweet thing this perspective is ! ’ |
| 8 | For once I agree with Du Camp , who used to say that Gustave 's preferred form of travel was to lie on a divan and have the scenery carried past him . |
| 9 | Tyndale was nervous , and , when Vaughan offered him the King 's promise of safety if he returned to England , he expressed his fear that the promise might be broken on the persuasion of the clergy , who would affirm that promises made with heretics need not be kept . |
| 10 | The spin-doctors turned out to be young men who would point out a Labour sticker in the window of a public library as evidence of the socialist canker , or who would remark that Neil Kinnock 's latest speech was the worst he had ever made . |
| 11 | This is exacerbated by the fact that there are some extremists who would argue that psychology is nothing but a crude way of approaching brain function that has been superseded by advances in physiological technique . |
| 12 | Yet the Gay Lobby will not allow a line to be drawn by those of us who do not feel threatened by homosexuals but who would argue that sodomy is both unnatural , unhealthy and immoral at the very least . |
| 13 | But nevertheless there are many long-serving CAB advice workers who would deny that client problems today are so much more severe than in the past . |
| 14 | Is that not a crushing answer to those who would maintain that Miller and myself live in the same flat ? |
| 15 | There are a large number of psycholinguists who would say that Fodor is overstating his case here and that parsing is indeed canalized by so-called ‘ real world knowledge ’ . |
| 16 | say that women have been discriminated against for so long that they just have n't had the opportunities to rise up through the ranks , and if they are ever going to achieve the kind of representation that they ought to achieve just by the sheer numbers that the represent in the population , apart from the quality , and there are a lot of people who would say that women are probably rather superior erm to a lot of men at an equal level |
| 17 | At one extreme are those who would say that Protestantism was more propitious for science than Catholicism only in the sense that it was less obstructive . |
| 18 | She was ungrateful enough to regret that the excitement was over — and that she must learn again to be the sort of woman who would find that sort of regret childish and irresponsible . |
| 19 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 20 | Delay created by these reasons , both human and procedural , can prove extremely frustrating to the parties , most particularly to the plaintiff who will feel that delay amounts to a denial of justice . |
| 21 | When the Equal Opportunities Commission , in its equality agenda , describes child care facilities as meagre in the extreme compared with the facilities that are available in the rest of Europe , when we know that the women in work to whom the Minister has referred are often forced into part-time work because of inadequate child care arrangements and when we bear in mind his entirely complacent answer , is not it a good thing that a Labour Government are coming who will ensure that child care provision is expanded ? |
| 22 | ‘ What quiet bravery and who 's to say , who will argue with me , who will deny that Prufrock 's slow death was not the more terrible . ’ |
| 23 | Who can deny that feeling of pure unadulterated pleasure as the sun hits your skin on a summer day ? |