Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Apart from demonstrating one of the unwavering laws of British journalism , that nothing sells newspapers like royalty , and nothing makes a better editorial column than declamations of simple patriotism , the curious thing about these assaults is how much they belong to a period .
2 Others had to put up with less ideal locations , and this led to demand for the feng shui practitioner , whose skill was in improving the landscape by correct siting , ensuring that nothing took place to disturb the flows of energy .
3 In a huge variety of ways and from a multitude of different per-spectives Derrida shows that nothing escapes différance , that there are no inviolate entities , that everything becomes part of what he calls the play of differences .
4 I am also so excited , so appalled , so outside myself that I can look down at myself , so peculiarly detached , and yet also so vividly held stickily intact within myself that nothing makes sense and the moments do not join together in any comprehensible scale of time .
5 But Karplus claimed that nothing gives theoreticians grater satisfaction than to find close harmony between their results and the laboratory results .
6 So effective is this defence that nothing hunts skunks — and the skunks seem to know it , judging from the jaunty and self-confident way in which they bustle about their business .
7 It is important that everyone helps stop more and more people getting infected .
8 We can leave in a convoy from my house to ensure that everyone gets transport .
9 This is often a useful exercise , although there is occasionally a risk that the emphasis upon paperwork becomes so great that everyone loses sight of what was originally intended .
10 The bad news is that everyone plays victim at times .
11 The other requirement of an information-based organization is that everyone takes information responsibility .
12 I could hear Nell 's voice announcing calmly that everyone had time for another drink .
13 THE PLAIN facts first : this is the return to centre stage that everyone hoped Bob Mould would make .
14 Many of the basic Windows techniques are taken for granted in the rush to produce better and better Windows applications — assuming that everyone understands Windows inside out .
15 Ianthe thought the word ‘ cocktails ’ a little old-fashioned , and so evidently did her aunt , who protested that everyone drank whisky or gin and tonic now .
16 When you are forming a band , try to make sure that everyone involved shares the same commitment and dedication .
17 Mr Fallon says that everyone knows living standards have risen in the North over the last ten years .
18 The first is that everyone has work but no one really works .
19 Sooner or later someone mentioned Lord of the Flies , and of course Zoe was able to tell us that everyone has anger .
20 She lowered her voice to a whisper , ‘ … you should know that everyone has access to every typewriter in the newsroom .
21 It was only from looking at film of the first episode that everyone remembered Frank had forgotten to wear his famous beret and raincoat .
22 This is a practical extension of the ‘ circle of knowledge ’ employed at Highlander meetings which has ‘ the physical connotation that everyone brings knowledge to share ’ and that ‘ there are no designated experts ’ .
23 Once the first and crucial step has been taken of recognising that everyone needs help to handle what are very distressing events , the next step is to request and take advantage of all the support available .
24 The point is not that everyone needs property to be free ; some people have little or no property but are not necessarily any the less free as a result .
25 Richard Feynman , said to be the greatest theoretical physicist of modern times , stated that no-one understands quantum mechanics .
26 Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman is reassuring on this point : ‘ I think I can safely say that no-one understands quantum mechanics .
27 And see that no-one mentions Fleance
28 Had she insisted that I apply leeches to her son I could not have felt more disturbed , more unwilling to assist at this medieval rite .
29 ‘ I really do think , ’ she murmured mischievously , ‘ that I deserve correction . ’
30 ‘ Some of them figured that I played Headless Horseman on bass — y'know … the weirdest concepts !
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