Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 Why wo n't I admit that I must have the shortest arms in the world ?
2 She and the children visited my house regularly at this period , so that I could hear the oldest boy , Ravi , read .
3 Always keep a dishwasher in the kitchen rather than the utility room , so that you can make the best use of it .
4 Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the .
5 He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future .
6 I believe as strongly as I can say that we can reform the costliest and most wasteful system on the face of the earth without enacting new broad based taxes .
7 The only reason now , looking at the way knitwear is going or any products going , the only way now that we can get the latest is if we design er oh er design new ideas that are want something fresh or fashion takes over .
8 Plugger promised to keep the pair for me until the day before I left so that they would have the shortest travelling time possible .
9 They will certainly have the fullest support of my Department and the Government in that and I hope that they will have the fullest support of Opposition Members , too , although that has not come through in this debate .
10 Customers buy product-belief : belief that your products are the best value for money , that they are the best quality , that they will receive the best after-sales service .
11 Canny fleet managers avoid buying in August , when consumer sales are at their highest , so that they can get the best bargains .
12 Bernice calculated that it would take the best part of an hour to reach them on foot .
13 The French government announced that it would take the strongest measures to ensure that Aoun met the conditions attached to his asylum , which included refraining from making public statements on political issues .
14 for Moore , to say that an act was right was to say that no alternative action would produce better consequences , while to say that it was ‘ a duty ’ or ‘ obligatory ’ was to say that it would produce the best consequences possible .
15 It then won a further two seats in by-elections in early 1992 , leading to the belief that it would constitute the greatest threat to the LDP at the 1992 elections .
16 It is now more than a decade since the authors of the World Conservation Strategy , an influential report by WWF , IUCN and UNEP , defined conservation not in terms of cleaning pollution or saving whales but as ‘ the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations . ’
17 There is no certainty that it will produce the best weights , and there is no knowing when to stop it , but it seems to work well in practice .
18 In return , we require the industry to become productive and efficient so that it can win the largest possible share of the future market for electricity generation .
19 In his reply Dr. Yeats expressed his gratitude and assured Whitbread that he would take the earliest opportunity of using the oil ; a month later however , the doctor sent his servant with an apology — he had not yet had a chance to use it .
20 The slight , disparaging inflexion on the last word annoyed Mr Pigdon , but he gruffly assured the gentleman that he should have the best spare bedroom and all the comforts his poor house might afford .
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