Example sentences of "that [pron] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses , in fastnesses : behind moats , behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass . |
2 | I think that everyone probably goes through fights with their parents during their early teens but I certainly did n't know what it was like to run away from home and to have constant dealings with the police and welfare organisations . |
3 | ( In fact , if one reads her work carefully , one notices that she never speaks of God , but rather of people 's concept of God , which may lead them on in their striving for justice . ) |
4 | Indeed it may well be that a claim for contribution in respect of exemplary damages is not within section 1(1) on the facts of this case , so that one never gets to section 2 in relation to such a claim . |
5 | Moreover , in the humanities and much professional and social science literature , titles are by no means the precise description of the subject matter that one usually expects in Nature ; in a notorious example , an article on information retrieval appeared in the Library Association Record entitled " How golden is your retriever ? " — an article which would greatly puzzle dog fanciers who had turned to the computer for search along these simple lines . |
6 | One of the unintended consequences of its use , however , as we shall see later , is that it also offers to readers an unusually rigid and frequently biased conception of gender . |
7 | It has been argued by some that training plays no part in refining the skills of headship which can only be learned through experience ; presumably the proponents of this view would say that it also applies to officers . |
8 | A key point about the former is that it also invokes in practice some measure of ‘ tolerance ’ on both sides , some concept of ‘ trust ’ . |
9 | The Polish government 's statistical office believes that the output of private industry ( excluding farming ) grew by 50% over the past year , and that it now accounts for 18% of national income , up from 11% in 1989 . |
10 | Patchouli is unusual in that it actually improves with age , and a twenty-year-old oil will be extremely mellow and fragrant . |
11 | Does this mean that we will understand schizophrenia if we know that it often occurs in people when a certain ion channel or a certain enzyme is damaged ? |
12 | Finally , it can be inserted into the eye in a swollen state , higher than its equilibrium value in the body , so that it gradually decreases in size , thus reducing the degree of scleral buckling after chorioretinal adhesion . |
13 | Most d-i-y tiles probably start out with a plain metal straight-edge , but find that it quickly slews off line when scoring a shiny tile surface . |
14 | The most obvious feature of innovation is that it always comes with surprise . |
15 | And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax . |
16 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |
17 | Prodded for details of his own guitar tunings , Cooder reveals that he mostly sticks to DGDGBD , a plain open G , or DADF&sharp ; AD , an open D , although he sometimes changes the open G to an open C , or tunes the second string up to make open D into a D6 tuning . |
18 | You know someone who you believe is a supporter and in conversation it 's mentioned that he regularly gives to charities . |
19 | I always keep him under tight control when I 'm walking and make sure that he never goes near sheep or lambs , and on the open fell he 's usually on his best behaviour . |
20 | Is not it a fact that he never learns from experience ? |
21 | Everything that he greatly cares about demands order , proportion , measure and control In poetry he considers decorum the grand masterpiece . |
22 | I suppose I 'd like to feel safe in the knowledge that whatever else happens to music , people will just keep listening . |