Example sentences of "that [art] [pron] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 so this is what I 'm saying how come that the she 's still got the poll , we have to , got to pay poll tax at that rate because she 's not working
2 Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , Scotland 's Lord Advocate , said he would have resigned if exposed to political pressure , and Assistant Attorney-General Bob Mueller insisted that no one had even tried to influence the investigation .
3 The compounds had not led , as he had then hoped , to new dyestuffs , and it appeared that no one had yet investigated their biological properties .
4 There was , presumably , a sound evolutionary reason for the fact that no one had yet designed a lavatory in which the occupant faced away from the door , some relic of the time when primitive man was most at risk when at stool , but it did mean that the lavatory user was finely tuned to the approach of strangers .
5 The lack of tangible reward for either side after the very heavy losses suffered by both was compounded by the fact that it was seen as a war that no one had actually wanted .
6 Yesterday publican John McKeague said that Mr McGarry had been drinking regularly in his bar for the last 20 years , but added that no one had ever asked about his movements .
7 Their eyes locked together for an instant , and she felt as though he was seeing right into her soul , into bits of her that no one had ever seen before .
8 His eyes were the eyes of the battered except that no one had ever battered Timothy Gedge .
9 ‘ He injected into it some really way-out visual ideas that no one had ever tried before . ’
10 Strange , thought Fergus , turning restlessly and trying to escape the light , strange that throughout all Court history and throughout all Court gossip ( and gossip at Tara had ever been lively ) , that no one has ever referred to Dierdriu 's child , to the heir to Tara who disappeared .
11 But he could equally well have said one is enthusiasm and the other is cynicism , one is facility and the other is aridity , one is gregariousness and the other is solitude , one is the belief that no one has ever done anything of value before and the other is the belief that everything has already been done , one is spontaneity and the other is cerebration , one is joy and the other is despair , one is heart and the other is mind , one is the garret and the other is the penthouse , one is sincerity and the other is irony , one is Jung and the other is Freud , one is Rimbaud and the other is Mallarmé , one is wine and the other is coffee , one is rags and the other is riches , one is women and the other is celibacy , one is health and the other is disease , one is meat and the other is vegetables , one is life and the other is death , one is everything in upper case and the other is everything in lower case , one is everything in roman and the other is everything in italics .
12 It may be clipped classical , random cottage , modern high-tech , or some intensely personal vision of Byzantium , that no one has ever imagined before , but which exists in your head and wants to get out .
13 Funny that no one has ever noticed Mrs Thatcher 's knock knees and pigeon toes , but then , the ever considerate television news cameras always film her from the knees up , so who 's to know .
14 My own view is that scientific theories usually start out by assuming the existence of entities that no one has ever seen or touched — genes , atoms , photons , viruses .
15 Oceanic crust that no one has ever seen before !
16 RASA : Drink eaten by a rare Talahari tribe that no one has ever seen or found any evidence to prove that they exist .
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