Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] that [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 2 | Hegel believed that a substance was exhausted by the sum of its predicates , which is another way of saying that he identified the categories of the German language with those of abstract thought , and those of abstract thought , in turn with those of Mind or Geist . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman had no basis for saying that I misled the House , and he has no basis for declining to withdraw his allegation . |
| 4 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 5 | The most interesting aspect of the affair , however , is the very swift growth of the cult of St Edward , something which his assassins may have foreseen , if Archbishop Wulfstan is correct in saying that they burnt the corpse , presumably in an attempt to destroy remains which might become relics . |
| 6 | Though they were n't always the conventional portrayals , she had no difficulty in recognising that they represented the signs of the zodiac . |
| 7 | He then built a machine for the piano which had a series of lights which went on and off ensuring that you played the right note — without ever having to understand what a sharp or a flat was . |
| 8 | Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted . |
| 9 | The man was overcoming his feelings of inferiority by demonstrating that he had the strength of will to remain on the bank , unperturbed , while the child drowned . |
| 10 | In more extreme manner we might wish to register our displeasure at the felling of a row of fine trees for a road-widening project by saying that they had the right to be left in peace . |
| 11 | In this way , the student can gain confidence by knowing that he made the decisions and that they were sensible ones . |