Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry that Oliver had gone , or sorry that she would be alone ? |
| 2 | Just for a moment she let her hand linger on his sleeve , then slowly withdrew it , wondering if she was glad or sorry that he had given her such an insight into what made him the man he was today . |
| 3 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 4 | Frequently , senior executives are offered a termination package deal at the time when they are first told that it is likely or unavoidable that their job will come to an end . |
| 5 | When she had made the rounds of the many churches in Lynne , she was ‘ urged in her soul to go and visit certain places for ghostly health ’ , and her husband , either from kindness , or afraid that she would get into trouble , accompanied her . |
| 6 | Or afraid that your mother might have lied ? ’ |
| 7 | Okay erm what I 'd like you to do now is I 'd like you to tell me what you think are the important things about fractions and anything important or interesting that you 've learnt this afternoon . |
| 8 | The court may grant leave on the written request alone or direct that a date be fixed for hearing in which case notice must be given to the applicant and other persons as directed by the court ( FPCR , r3(2) ; FPR , r4.3(2) ) . |
| 9 | Nevertheless there was a chance , perhaps , that a French government might have been so far-sighted or faint-hearted that it would have ordered a cease-fire , entered into serious negotiations , abandoned its insistence on membership of the French Union , accepted , at least by instalments , an independent , more or less communist state in a presumably close relationship with either the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party , or both , and been prepared to rely on Vietminh goodwill , such as it might be , for the preservation of whatever position they chose to accord France . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not right or arguable that this public limited company has the burden of having to employ Mr Venables as chief executive indefinitely , ’ he added . |
| 11 | However full of features your software is — and Ami Pro 3.0 is a front runner in this respect — you are always likely to find something different or extra that you want . |
| 12 | PR is concerned with the behaviour of an organisation , product or individual that leads to publicity . |
| 13 | Not knowing the decorative style of the new home is an important point to bear in mind when planning a picture of this sort , so it is always best to choose colours and frames that are attractive without being so dramatic or colourful that you considerably reduce their hanging potential . |
| 14 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 15 | Often students are either nervous of venturing into the third field or ignorant that opinions and recommendations are required to complete the report . |
| 16 | He had often , in their earlier correspondence , spoken of a test or ideal that he wished to impose on himself as a rein on his passionate temperament and his over-eager response to physical beauty and joy . |
| 17 | Individual deterrence occurs when someone commits a crime , is punished for it , and finds the punishment so unpleasant or frightening that the offence is never repeated for fear of more of the same or worse . |
| 18 | It is these minerals and whether the water is hard or soft that determine the taste of beer . |
| 19 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 20 | If you are younger , perhaps living alone after the death of an elderly parent , and you are in the same situation of having a large house or flat that is too much of a financial burden for you , then you must either sell or take in lodgers . |
| 21 | For at the moment of creativity , the designer draws upon a knowingness , an intuition either subconscious or superconscious that is a multidimensional encapsulation of both problem and solution . |
| 22 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 23 | He wants to draw us into the vortex of non-personhood that he has become , and the nothingness or non-being that he is becoming . |
| 24 | Sometimes , of course , the subject is either so technical , or complicated that a photograph of the laboratories or of a piece of machinery would not make the point and the use of drawings should be considered instead . |
| 25 | No one is so grand or important that concern for cleaning standards is beneath him . |
| 26 | In order to show conscious memorising the employer will have to demonstrate that the complexity of the process or that the list of trade connections was so lengthy or important that an honest employee would have realised that these were the property of his employer . |
| 27 | ‘ Unlikely that my mental cogs can turn or unlikely that I will see anything ? ’ |
| 28 | In determining whether goods are of a class to which an advertised trade description relates , s5(3) provides that regard shall be had not only to the form and content of the advertisement but also to the time , place , manner and frequency of its publication and all other matters making it likely or unlikely that a person to whom the goods are supplied would think of the goods belonging to the class in question . |
| 29 | A shade or blind that draws up into neat horizontal folds by means of cords threaded through rings attached at regular intervals to the back of the fabric . |
| 30 | And remember , the more funny or ridiculous that image is , the simpler it will be to remember . |