Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that ducks do have eggs it 's possible they could of been there but they were n't . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's very possible that garages do take people for a ride , ’ acknowledged a spokesman for Kangol , one of the major baby-seat manufacturers . |
| 3 | It is unlikely that employers did pick your school . |
| 4 | They , I think like everybody else were succumbed to the fact that readers do like to know what 's going on in the Royal Family . |
| 5 | I believe , however , that over the past 20 years an important body of evidence has emerged which strongly suggests that schools do make a significant difference both to pupil attainment and pupil behaviour . |
| 6 | In fact subjects generally found it relatively easy to understand the rating required and found no difficulty in using it thus the general conclusion from this study is that drivers do report fluctuating levels of subjective risk . |
| 7 | Realising these advantages assumes that DHAs do have bargaining leverage over providers , that they do have choices and that they are given the freedom to make them . |
| 8 | ‘ The fact that no fewer than half the funds invested in small firms in Scotland comes from personal equity shows that Scots do have a flair for enterprise and a willingness to back their own judgment that is essential in every entrepreneur . ’ |
| 9 | While the chances of a woman developing rheumatoid arthritis after a delivery are small , the researchers have nevertheless provided new evidence that hormones do play a role in some cases of the disease . |
| 10 | Kendon ( 1967 ) found that speakers do tend to look at listeners more during fluent speech than during hesitant speech . |
| 11 | That speakers do introduce what they want to say via some form of personal reference has a noticeable effect on the structure of contributions in conversational discourse . |
| 12 | Societies should always be aware when they are launched that life is not always sweetness and light when the pressure is on and constitutions should be framed so that disputes do arrive the framework for settlement already exists . |
| 13 | Although the line between the theory-specific and the more generic surveys is a difficult one to draw , it is important as a reminder of the very important point that methods do have theoretical implications of a profound kind , even if these are not always easy to determine . |
| 14 | The accident estimates from Study 2 as shown in Table 4.6 make it clear that subjects do rely on the precise conditions in the film viewed when making accident estimates for a junction , even though most subjects previously knew the junctions concerned . |
| 15 | Though it does not deny that subjects do have a duty to God to obey their ruler , it insists that rulers are not absolute , and themselves have duties to their subjects . |
| 16 | He praised the achievements of the revolution but said that shortcomings did exist , as in the application of the emergency regulations , and that although Syria was still in a state of war with Israel , the government should consider restricting the use of the law to matters of state security and public order . |
| 17 | It is possible that parents do convey to their children that they themselves do not judge and relate to people on the basis of their skin colour , but they should also tell the child that many people in the society do . |
| 18 | The frequency and volume of business material , not all of which falls into the legal deposit category , means that gaps do exist in the business collection . |
| 19 | The consumer goods that engineers make tend to be the kind of things that people buy when they move house , like cookers and fridges . |
| 20 | Though utterly distant from his own life , he was nevertheless aware from the confusing gossip of his elders that Marines did maintain a fortress-monastery in a spire of the Palatine . |
| 21 | Some of them hardly bat an eyelid , but explain that quails do migrate over the Sinai peninsula , and that they often settle on the ground in large numbers and can be caught very easily . |
| 22 | The well-known American research by Hill ( 1970 ) has demonstrated the interlocking nature of support structures across the three generations , and has shown that grandchildren do feel responsibility to give assistance to their grandparents in this context , although in practice they actually do less than the intervening generation . |
| 23 | So far as assistance to grandchildren in adult life is concerned , the American evidence suggests that grandparents do assist financially and that they define this assistance as a gift , unlike financial support between the other two generations which is more likely to be defined as a loan , or as part of an exchange ( Hill , 1970 , pp. 69–70 ) . |
| 24 | Not all biologists accept that insects do communicate electromagnetically . |
| 25 | ‘ Clownfish cover themselves with a sugar coating to avoid being stung by their anemone ’ What is true is that Clowns do have a polysaccharide mucus coating to mask the protein taste of their mucus — and thus avoid the anemone trigger mechanism which stings on sensing protein . |
| 26 | The pragmatist is more flexible , recognising that exceptions do arise and must be practically catered for . |
| 27 | The majority were German Shepherds but it is known that Rottweilers did contribute . |
| 28 | The Scotsman has also established that consultants helping put the finishing touches to a feasibility study on Rosyth for Medway Ports have also been acting for Scottish Enterprise . |
| 29 | The Gallup/BBC survey shows that Britons do see their future as part of Europe while remaining rightly sceptical about the benefits so far of EC membership . |
| 30 | His Aristotelian adversary had to admit that things did appear that way when he repeated the observations for himself . |