Example sentences of "that [subord] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosemary later confessed to Leith that seeing Travis looking so haggard had really got to her . |
| 2 | The leader of the more radical Khalqi faction in the PDPA , Hafizullah Amin , declared that although Afghanistan had virtually no proletariat , its vanguard party , the PDPA , was a proletarian party because of its internationalist connnections . |
| 3 | Euro-hopefuls argue that if Europe had already been committed to a common foreign and security policy , its military contribution in the Gulf would have been swifter and more effective . |
| 4 | He warned that if Slovenia went ahead with secession , EC support would be withdrawn — leading to the total economic collapse of Yugoslavia as early as September . |
| 5 | However , I believe that if England falter seriously in their next seven games — all World Cup ties — and look like failing to qualify , then Taylor will consider the honourable move of resigning . |
| 6 | He explained his change of mind by pointing to the danger that if Stockholm went ahead without the Allied socialists , the case for the Allied war effort would be lost by default : |
| 7 | The feeling that if William went now , by himself , and she stayed , that would be it . |
| 8 | It was all she wanted to know really , the truth — that if Fernando had truly loved her he would have moved heaven and earth to get her back . |
| 9 | I knew too that if Jerry had ever behaved as I did , taking on more than he could chew , then I too would have responded in like manner . |
| 10 | The Dalai Lama had said on March 10 that unless China responded soon to his proposals made in June 1988 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg , he would consider himself not bound by the five-point peace plan , although he remained committed to negotiations with China . |
| 11 | His wife Ellen wrote to us with this smashing picture and told us that because Russell works so much she only ever sees him in his overall or a track suit . |
| 12 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 13 | In 1079 , Lanfranc asked Anselm to give his opinion , and ( as we know ) he argued that since Elphege had certainly died in the effort to save his tenants from an unjust exaction , he had died for justice ; and , if for justice , then also for truth , which is only justice in another mode . |
| 14 | The United States argued that since Nicaragua had never ratified its declaration it had always been a third party to the jurisdictional scheme . |
| 15 | It is striking that while Leapor writes amusingly , sometimes angrily , of intellectual constraints , she rarely complains of the physical rigours of domestic service . |
| 16 | It has been calculated that while Stapledon spent just under half his time before the 1320s in his diocese , once he became treasurer barely a tenth of his time was passed at Exeter ; he relied instead upon the machinery of deputies to maintain his authority and execute his wishes there . |
| 17 | Still more irritating was the fact that whilst Vaughan laboured slowly , working up his ideas through a series of studies , Minton dashed out striking designs with astonishing facility , working with fierce concentration and a pertinacious resistance to interruptions . |
| 18 | Ann Butler had written to Uncle Nathan in Leeds to say that when Sarah went there to act as bridesmaid to her sister Christiana , she would stay on to be his new housekeeper . |
| 19 | , mean that when Caesar has actually been crowned , the dangerous side of his nature may come forth . |
| 20 | An elderly man bird-watching in Iffley Fields recognized that we were all drunk , and that when Dennis fell overboard Karen and I panicked with tragic results . |
| 21 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ There is no question that when Jimmy decides enough he will hold a very firm line . |
| 23 | I mean , there are many , many cases of injustice around the world and , the West , the British government , ca n't be responsible for all of them , but there 's , there 's one particular case of Iraq , where we 've already gone to war , to , in the cause of democracy and freedom , and I do n't believe that when Saddam offends again as he does day by day , we can turn a blind eye . |
| 24 | He told the court that as Newton pulled away , he kicked out while they were still on the ground . |