Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , everyone should realise that the countryside is a workplace and not just a recreation place . |
| 2 | This much granted , someone might maintain that the fundamental basis for the call to liberate slaves amounted to the dual demand that , first , their interests not be ignored , and , secondly , their interests be counted equitably . |
| 3 | Either way , someone could recognise that the man at the receiving end of her hysteria was Vitor d'Arcos , and inform the media . |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody should imagine that the changes will be immediate , ’ he adds , ‘ but over the next decade the market share will fluctuate very considerably among the five major British ELT publishers . ’ |
| 5 | Ministers however were not at fault because ‘ nobody could tell that the stock market would go up 150 points since we priced the shares . |
| 6 | Nobody could believe that the Government do anything for the British coal industry because they are absent from the debate and have not done anything to help our plight . |
| 7 | Nobody could doubt that the applications made by the applicant to the district judge were applications in a criminal cause , for their purpose was to determine the way in which the prosecution should proceed . |
| 8 | Nobody will deny that the Commission has an overwhelmingly Franco-German flavour , and this is already reflected in its economic priorities . |
| 9 | Whether you comply with their claims to being the sole centre of musical importance or not , nobody can say that The Smiths have n't , so far , fulfilled their promise . |
| 10 | Nobody can doubt that the Massaliotes explored seas and coasts . |
| 11 | No-one could complain that the government has not been an active one . |
| 12 | One may presume that the standard of living of both these groups was above the national average , and that this could have given them better resistance to disease than their poorer neighbours . |
| 13 | This time one may suppose that the sequence is : 3 , 6 , 12 , 24 , … , ∞ . |
| 14 | As one performs ‘ Round and round the garden like a teddy bear ’ or ‘ To market , to market to buy a fat pig ’ for the hundredth time , one may conclude that the period of enjoyment is much longer for children than for adults . |
| 15 | One may conclude that the motive of the writer was to add to the growing fascist propaganda which appeared in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 16 | One may claim that the confusion here results from the need for yet further distinctions : thus Lyons ( 1977a ) advocates distinctions between text-sentences and system-sentences , sentence-types and sentence-tokens , utterance-types and utterance-tokens , and utterance-acts and utterance-products . |
| 17 | One may say that the wise characters in The Lord of the Rings are often without hope and so near the edge of despair , but they do not succumb . |
| 18 | It is clear that , if normativist style has its roots in conservatism and liberalism , similarly one may say that the functionalist style has a certain affinity with a political theory of socialism . |
| 19 | In Vietnam , other complaints centred on the lack of industrial development , the stranglehold of French companies and , especially , of the Banque de l'lndochine — a consortium of Paris banks which had a monopoly of banking services — but while one may say that the nature of colonial development or colonial repression in itself created the necessary conditions for revolution or national liberation , it is obviously time to consider how these , and other , factors influenced the forms of Vietnamese resistance . |
| 20 | In conclusion one may say that the magnate class , and particularly the military captains , were the main beneficiaries , but that the gains of war were often fortuitous and certainly unevenly spread . |
| 21 | Yet one may imagine that the dinner-party takes place in a large house , and that in another room the ladies are engaged in their own conversations . |
| 22 | In view of what occurred later , one may believe that the young man was intoxicated . |
| 23 | From another angle , one may note that the receipt of publicity , as Florey knew well , is an astonishing waste of time which can be spent on more worthy scientific activities . |
| 24 | For example , one may suspect that the labour market is overheating , i.e. that X L > 0 , but without further quantitative information it is impossible to gauge the extent of the problem . |
| 25 | In the first place , one may recognise that the English language is not helpful . |
| 26 | One may agree that the expression which Firth dismisses as nonsense has a curious ring to it but this seems to be due to the choice of lexis which results in a particularly inconsequential proposition which it is hard to imagine ever figuring in actual use . |
| 27 | Furthermore one may argue that the subordination of women in the church reflected the cultural conditioning of people in the first century . |
| 28 | If one picks out some of the chief things which are good , one may find that the one thing they seem to have in common is that they are pleasurable experiences . |
| 29 | In laboratory work one may find that the desired values of the non-dimensional parameters are not actually achievable . |
| 30 | If a receiving office makes use of a referral from an originating office then one should assume that the originating office will take his fee from his client and the receiving office should seek to take a fee , either finders fee or fee for professional assistance , from his client or contact . |