Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [that] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Labour Members abandon the trusts , which , from the terminology that I have quoted , are so close to their own policy , would they but acknowledge the fact , it is not the Conservative party that would be the loser but the delivery of patient care in Scotland . |
| 2 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , he has asked me to make it clear that he strongly supports the case that I seek to make . |
| 4 | we also rely on the fact that the case that I 've drawn to your Lordships attention yesterday , is this was the case in the supplementary bundle where your Lordship will recall that er on the issue of export credit guarantee |
| 5 | Because most of what I have said is fair m most of the case that I wish to put er has come out in the discussion that there has just been . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) has not had the advantage that I have had of studying these applications with very great care , and it is quite clear that he has not addressed the issue in any great substance . |
| 7 | Well it was n't working in the field that I want to work in . |
| 8 | The origin of this very basic and particularly European way of thought lies in the experience that I appear to exist as a conscious entity within my body , and yet remain distinguishable from my body . |
| 9 | I came in knowing that that was going to happen , so erm yo I think also I had the the freedom that I had chosen to live there , and I think that made erm the difference . |
| 10 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 11 | The European community on the other hand also saw a growth of output of over twenty percent , twenty three point seven percent but that gave rise not to eighteen million but to only six million additional jobs and I just say to the honourable gentleman the lesson for Europe is to go further down the route that I have suggested of further deregulation and less bureaucracy and a stable economic framework , than to go down the route that he is advocating in his short address and question to me . |
| 12 | Well the story that I have to tell you to begin with comes all the way from a very hot and very large continent . |
| 13 | ‘ But afterwards , I found that the noise that I had heard was the springing of rivets . |
| 14 | The purpose of general management is to try and ensure that in the city that we are getting the best value we can from the health resources that are in the city , and I have the authority now , and the responsibility to spend the budget that I 've had allocated from the Oxfordshire Health Authority , by Gerald Simon who 's the general manager . |
| 15 | I would also like then the information in relation to the ‘ Public Inquiry ’ head of the budget that I have requested a number of times previously — amount spent , individual commitments made but not yet received , likely costs in relation to Millerhill . |
| 16 | It seemed a very personal and special wave — the kind that I had seen in my mind 's eye in a night of tangled dreaming . |
| 17 | The guidance that I have referred to is , as it says , guidance to the court and to practitioners in every discipline , but it is authoritative guidance and valuable guidance which family proceedings courts should make clear that they have had regard to when they are arriving at or announcing their decision . |
| 18 | The difference that emerges is that whereas Labov 's statement is based on speaker-agreement within the dimension of social class ( and hence derivative from the ‘ shared value ’ hypothesis of stratificational class theory , on which see chapter 7 ) , the characterization that I have built up thus far is based on the variables of age , sex , area and network , within a single social class , and without reliance on a prior model or theory of social class . |
| 19 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 20 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 21 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 22 | It would be interesting to hear just how much of the programme that I have outlined the Government support , those aspects of it that they do not , and why . |
| 23 | A couple of funny looks later and I realised I also had to head off the perception that I wanted to hire a sex cave for outré rumpy pumpy with a slew of bimbo victims . |
| 24 | Sometimes I go out and pick up strange men in clubs because that seems to fit the self-image that I 've adopted — I do n't know if that makes sense . |
| 25 | It jumped easily over the rocks and I saw with horror the monster that I had created . |
| 26 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 27 | When I reached Ostend at midday on 16th there was no ticket but only a message to the effect that I had to buy another one . |
| 28 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |
| 29 | ‘ This decision totally vindicates me and clears my name of the slur that I have lied about myself . ’ |
| 30 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |