Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] that [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It supports the principle of increasing energy prices so that consumers pay the full environmental cost of the resources they use , although it acknowledges that increases would have to be phased in over time , preferably in line with international agreements . |
| 2 | As for British citizens falling foul of the regime , Mr Marlow believes that ‘ No country can be expected to operate a differential system of justice in favour of foreigners ’ , although he adds that benefits can accrue from the exercise of ‘ justified clemency ’ . |
| 3 | The problem with the Minister 's logic is that his colleague , the other Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Wantage ( Mr. Jackson ) has recently gone on record saying that he believes that women should have pay parity with men in accordance with the law . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Jim has decided it would be a good idea if he took Sylvia to a dance that has been advertised , and he hopes that George will bring Mary . |
| 6 | Well here 's the Director General of Fair Trading , and this is someone who 's had quite a bit of experience on this , Sir Gordon Borey and he says that motorists should ensure that any cover they buy is in the form of an individual insurance policy in their name . |
| 7 | The basis of morality and law-abiding behaviour has become the family and it follows that parents must be made responsible for their children 's misdemeanours . |
| 8 | It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching . |
| 9 | The tribunal will only allow a trader 's appeal against such a direction if it considers that Customs could not reasonably have been satisfied : for example , if Customs have ignored a relevant matter or if they have taken an irrelevant matter into account . |
| 10 | If it seems that things could be finally settled by deciding whether a foetus is a person , this can only be because ‘ person ’ is used to ascribe a moral status rather than merely to describe . |
| 11 | As she approaches it , she can not at first see Alix , but she believes that Alix will be there , and indeed momently she is : they converge , Esther from the west , Alix from the south , and moderate their pace ( Esther accelerating slightly , Alix marginally slowing down ) so that they meet upon the very corner itself . |
| 12 | It does sadden him , but he believes that Juice will maybe explain a few of the pressures kids are under . |
| 13 | But it seems that people will actually pay money ( money that you can buy cakes with , imagine ! ) to hear me sing . |
| 14 | There has been little mention of this aspect so far , but it appears that Customs will be empowered to vary the terms by publishing a notice ; that indicates that it will be quite strictly enforced . |
| 15 | Although she fancies Belville from the start and repulses his sexual advances , this is not because she feels that marriage must be the outcome of such a strategy . |
| 16 | This is important because it recognises that retailers may not have the knowledge or the resources to check whether the goods he sells meet the general safety requirement , especially in the case of second-hand goods . |
| 17 | The direct transfer of capital from one generation to the next is the primary way in which reproduction takes place , because it ensures that wealth will remain in the family . |
| 18 | Since he believes that students may be aided in drawing their own conclusions if writers make their own value biases explicit , it is particularly important to do this . |
| 19 | The once-great Computer Systems News , which had to suffer the indignity in its declining months of being called Systems and Network Integration , gives up the ghost this week but not before it reports that IBM will turn up at AutoFacts in November with a new-fangled massively parallel machine that runs both AIX/ES and MVS and is based on a new ( possibly hybrid ) chip developed at the Thomas Watson Lab . |
| 20 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |
| 21 | When it appears that Edwy will lose the battle she tries to purchase her survival by delivering her daughters to Odoff and Dusterandus . |
| 22 | Ake ( 1985 , p.175 ) puts this well when he suggests that indigenization may have ‘ reinforced the division of labour between the Nigerian bourgeoisie ( as specialists in maintaining the political conditions of accumulation ) and foreign capital ( as specialists in production ) ’ . |
| 23 | A later contributor in the above book recognises the weaknesses of this argument when he suggests that TM should be modified to suit various cultures . |
| 24 | This Engels emphatically asserted in The Origin when he argues that communism would mean the end of the family as we know it and the liberation of women . |
| 25 | Digital 's commitment is one of the strongest cards in Mr De Benedetti 's hand when he claims that Olivetti will be among the survivors of the current shake-out in the computer industry . |
| 26 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |