Example sentences of "[that] [pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also heard that my parents both died of an illness only a year after their wedding . |
| 2 | I find it hard to believe that my paintings now sell in London and many other places ! |
| 3 | The latter symptom , common among individualists , manifests itself as a refusal to acknowledge the problem : while seeking to defend complex theoretical claims , individualists frequently take the intuitive truth of their own doctrine to be so overwhelmingly obvious that its opponents scarcely need to be taken seriously . |
| 4 | Although no similar legal duty has been imposed upon the BBC , the Corporation has undertaken to ensure that its broadcasters also bow to the dictates of public decency . |
| 5 | Gresham Telecomputing Plc , which last week released its first full year figures since the merger of the Gresham Group with Telecomputing Plc in 1991 is betting its future on the market 's movement towards open systems , despite the fact that its revenues still come from traditional ICL mainframe customers . |
| 6 | Yet it may have consequences that its authors never dreamed of . |
| 7 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 8 | It was also noticed that human societies changed , became more complex , and that their institutions increasingly differentiated from one another . |
| 9 | Some children take on an unnatural , waxen appearance that their mothers sometimes see as a kind of death mask . |
| 10 | The leaders of Eastern religions which had resisted the appearance of the railway , as in China and Japan , soon found that their co-religionists swiftly took to the rails to visit temples and shrines . |
| 11 | It is a distinctive feature of these companies that their shares usually trade on the stock market at a discount to their net asset values . |
| 12 | He believes there were many contributory factors to his sacking but the prevailing one was that his views often clashed with Gedge 's . |
| 13 | Thus , however flat or sharp the key of the piece may be , the arranger is able to see to it that his clarinets never play in a key with a greater number of flats or sharps than three . |
| 14 | He therefore leaked his deepest , darkest secret , but selectively , to those half-way in the know already ; and he made it deliberately dramatic , so that there was still a good chance it would fall within the wide range of hyperbole or blarney that his listeners already allowed for . |
| 15 | This is a thesis which runs quite counter to Milton and Rose Friedman 's latest book , Free to Choose , the basic theme of which is that our problems today result from the intervention of government . |