Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They might sell single eyeshadow colours , or compacts that you fill yourself .
2 We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen .
3 We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items .
4 The Ecology Building Society argues that it is recreating the original grass-roots feel of a membership-owned mutual society , and says that it involves its members closely in the development of new savings accounts .
5 The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them .
6 This development places extra demands upon the infant 's powers of attention and requires that she co-ordinate her behaviour with respect to both the object and the other person .
7 And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future .
8 And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future .
9 Although his lecture is curtailed by the fake fire alarm devised by the Czechoslovakian authorities ( itself an indication that the ironic force of his lecture has not been lost on the audience ) , Anderson 's calmness ( significantly indicated by Stoppard in his stage directions , p. 91 ) as he gathers up his papers , not only contrasts sharply with his panic in scene six , but indicates that he feels he has made an effective protest .
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