Example sentences of "the [noun] [subord] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | For instance , I Was A Teenage Six Pistol by Glen Matlock ( Omnibus , £12.95 ) is only on the shelves because someone calculated that if one out of every few hundred punk rockers is daft enough to shell out nearly £13 for Matlock 's eye-witness account of the writing of ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ , then they 'll make a small fortune . |
| 32 | I was disappointed with the attitude because I feel that Sainsbury 's employees should have equal advantage when entering JS Journal competitions , no matter where they live in Great Britain . |
| 33 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 34 | Indeed these figures made even sorrier reading for the Conservatives when one realised that demographic shifts were working in the Government 's favour . |
| 35 | I believe the Chancellor when he says that , and that is why the Government have to go . |
| 36 | The judicial or administrative authority may also refuse to order the return of the child if it finds that the child objects to being returned and has attained the age and degree of maturity at which it is appropriate to take account of its views . |
| 37 | Everyone who lives alone makes the breakthrough when they realise that living alone is not a prison sentence or a state to be endured . |
| 38 | Re-assessment of the product choices confirms the requirement although it emerges that the surface material of the machine washed items is frequently aluminium so a non caustic machine detergent is specified . |
| 39 | All I can say is , I think they must never have spent a night in The Bar if they think that , or never a good night . |
| 40 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 41 | The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt that I was no longer in control , but he made a perfect landing … a great landing for anyone , but incredible for someone who had never flown before . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ I do n't see how you can expect people to follow your lead , to trust you , to commit themselves to the business unless they believe that all of these things are dear to your heart . ’ |
| 43 | This Act did not create any new cause of action for wrongfully causing death ; it merely continued any existing cause of action for personal injuries and loss of expectation of life that was vested in the deceased when he died that would otherwise have been extinguished on his death . |
| 44 | Before I was in the band if I saw that something was happening that I did n't like I 'd say nothing and go along with it . |
| 45 | Sigourney was coming on last and we were going to move the seats around during the interval because we felt that she might not be able to concentrate sitting next to the heavily made-up and highly camp Julian . |
| 46 | We may scrape and spit and dab and rub , until the point when we declare that the truth stands plain before us , thanks to xylene and propanol and acetone . |
| 47 | Sir : While agreeing with much of what Jonathan Glancey say in his article on ‘ A-road ’ architecture ( 4 October ) , I think he misses the point when he says that no one cares about it . |
| 48 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 49 | The prospect of publicity deters perjury : witnesses are more likely to tell the truth if they know that any lie they tell might be reported , and provoke others to come forward to discredit them . |
| 50 | But , as their pint-of-water escapades suggest , you could n't get further from the truth if you said that the NHS was a financially viable concern . |
| 51 | It was undemocratic and the Government were not telling the truth when they said that they would look at all the submissions in a fair and honest manner . |
| 52 | Sydney Smith had been wrong too ; it seemed that the country was not even a healthy grave ; though , judging from Edwin 's pusillanimous letter , Smith might have been in the right when he suggested that there were three sexes — men , women and clergymen ! |
| 53 | Recalling a symposium held at St. Louis in 1961 , the distinguished organic chemist Herbert C. Brown has commented on the reaction when he suggested that many of the proposed nonclassical structures for carbonium ions had weak experimental support . |
| 54 | If you are rearing those kinds that burrow into the soil , put some soil in the bottom of the cage when you see that they are fully grown . |
| 55 | A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to . |
| 56 | The nuns have acted to prevent the slaughter of the flock because they believed that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , she added . |
| 57 | It was getting dark and the wind had freshened , the rain gusting through the length of the shed so I decided that it was time to pack up and head for the nearest hospitable pub where I had been told I would be able to get a good meal of hot pie and peas . |
| 58 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 59 | In 1986 the Norwegian government had demanded the return of the water because it suspected that , contrary to the original agreement , it was not being used for peaceful purposes but for the manufacture of plutonium for nuclear weapons [ see p. 36942 ] . |
| 60 | But we certainly did some good work in the education because I think that we erm we used to , you know , of course we 'd , we 'd got used to use our auxiliaries naturally and erm we used to have a big conc a big er concert once a year in the town hall and er we would involve all the auxiliaries you know erm and of course we used to always erm fell a bit flat , the International Day which is July , the first Ju Saturday in July is International Day , Co-operative International , and we have always , the Guilds have worked very closely with the International Day . |