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

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1 During the trial , Lord Maclean heard a taped confession where MacIver admitted that he suggested which lorry to hijack and drove to Inverness a week before the robbery to check the vehicle 's routine .
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3 Whatever Conservative Members may believe , I can assure them that there is a climate of fear among offshore workers who believe — rightly or wrongly , but I think rightly — that many employees are subject to discrimination because companies or contractors consider that they have placed too much emphasis on safety matters .
4 In addition , it is open to the producer or director to show that he did not know or reasonably suspect that the offending programme would be included in a cable programme , or that in the context of the broadcast the programme would probably provoke racial hatred .
5 The conclusion must confront the title with your main point or argument to show that you have satisfied the question .
6 Meanwhile , it would be a mistake for legislation on divorce , tax or pensions to assume that they had .
7 Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £130 million by putting it up for sale .
8 As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with .
9 Although it was relatively ineffective , the fact that it was considerably safer than mercury meant that it remained in the pharmacopoeia of many countries until the twentieth century .
10 Her description was so detailed and precise that experts agreed that she had seen the eagle .
11 Although Romulo denied that he had given such an unequivocal pledge , Ramos stated on Sept. 15 that he would not pursue the Philippine claim to sovereignty .
12 This was repulsed , though Than Tun claimed that they desired unity which was the wish of the masses : ‘ The Rightists of the AFPFL submitted to the Imperialists in the Nu — Attlee Treaty , now also they are doing the same in discarding the Communist Party . ’
13 Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court .
14 It was not until 30 April , as disturbances mounted throughout India , that Irwin decided that he had no further option but to arrest Gandhi .
15 It was reported last night in my local paper ‘ Irish Press ’ that Rocky stated that he did not want to leave Leeds and was prepared to wait his chance like everybody else .
16 The implication must be that Eadberht denied that he had previously taken holy orders and affirmed the legitimacy of his claim , but Archbishop Aethelheard fled and Christ Church , Canterbury , was probably sacked .
17 Neither Morgan nor Engels denied that he had no direct evidence at all for this first primeval stage of total promiscuity .
18 The idea that it was a foreign plot seems to be the least likely of the possibilities , because although Stalin believed that they wanted to crush Russia I do n't see how killing Kirov this would help a foreign power in any way to crush Stalin 's Russia .
19 If A knows in advance that B ca n't come , then he is being deceptive ; but if he knows that B knows that he knows that B ca n't come , then he can not be interpreted as requesting at all ( utterance ( i ) might then be a joke , or if B is in an incapacitated ( say , inebriated ) state , perhaps a gibe ) .
20 He had not seen any of his children for ten years ; but he guessed that Alexei knew that he hated to be treated with formal courtesy .
21 But Washington has not admitted using new types of anti-personnel weapons , although evidence indicates that it did .
22 The company claims that customers say that they want to do their development at the workgroup level in an open systems environment , on a range of hardware and under different operating systems , and to share data in a decentralised development environment , rather than have it all tied to the Repository on the mainframe server .
23 Although Lee stated that he did not intend to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections , the new party announced that it would contest the election and that it planned to choose a candidate by the end of October .
24 Significantly , the French oboists he cites as the first to have come to England find their earliest documentation in a list of musicians who participated in a performance in 1675 of John Crowne 's masque Calisto , although Lasocki speculates that they arrived in 1673 by virtue of being in the company of Robert Cambert .
25 Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform .
26 Although Miller stated that he had collected most of the information from well-known authors and always acknowledged them , there are instances when the first person indicated his own contributions .
27 That non-enrollers were more likely than migrants to say that they had n't done a course because they needed other qualifications could imply ignorance of entry requirements .
28 Hall no doubt attempted to justify his action , by referring to the meeting that he had with Lewis on 4th August , and although Palmerston said that he had checked with Lewis , there must have been some misunderstanding between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer .
29 You have to be careful , you ca n't actually say that Nick represents this or that , you have to say that George thinks that he represents and sort of a kind of genetic engineering which would turn out a generation of perfect people , alright .
30 She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established .
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