Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But further acquaintance with the latest model forces me to acknowledge that the 1993 Applause is a well-equipped and well-finished machine . |
| 2 | Before doing this they had first made enquiries about the car 's history from its previous owner and learnt nothing suggesting that the odometer reading was false . |
| 3 | Everyone agreed that the result was most successful . |
| 4 | And everyone agreed that the swinging couple had a ball at the London nightclub . |
| 5 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 6 | Everyone agreed that the Gorbachevs were lovely people . |
| 7 | Everyone agreed that the Gorbachevs were lovely people |
| 8 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 9 | Everyone agrees that the unprecedented growth in the economies of the Western world in the past 40 years owes as much to trade as to technological progress . |
| 10 | Hoffman 's face has never been very expressive ( sometimes his rabbit stare makes me think that the great Maureen Stapleton has spawned an emotionally retarded.son ) , but he has always been able to get our empathy . ’ |
| 11 | That 's what makes me think that the man may have been a foreigner perhaps even killed on the other side of the channel . " |
| 12 | Carol began to sing a very rude version of ‘ Pretty Flamingo ’ which made me think that the stories of graffiti in ladies loos were all true . |
| 13 | It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it . |
| 14 | It was he who told me to see that the room was prepared for you . ’ |
| 15 | For example , adding a little recycled paper to a package enables them to claim that the item is made of recycled materials and convey a sense of ecological responsibility . |
| 16 | What makes me laugh that the Labour party always say oh interest rates in , sorry the tax rates in this |
| 17 | The news from France was that the French Army was withdrawing into prepared positions to lure the German Army into a trap , but soon everyone realised that the Germans must be sweeping all before them . |
| 18 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 19 | All of them say that the MacSharry plans would be devastating for farmers in every part of the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 21 | Mercifully we had shut the refrigerator and the cupboards after looking in them , and there was nothing to indicate that the visitor had noticed anything amiss . |
| 22 | Hayling had let them know that the move would complicate his personal life . |
| 23 | The actual state of the market is that it 's flooded with property , so we have a case where supply has increased , demand is still at a fairly low level , so we 're having to be very honest with our clients , our vendors , and let them know that the situation is that their property has to be of good value in the market place . |
| 24 | He wants everyone to know that the Welsh selectors were right to prefer him to Colin Stephens for the game against Scotland . |
| 25 | Some of the features of alcoholism in its terminal phase are so well known that a cartoonist has only to draw a couple of lines for everyone to know that the subject is a " drunk " . |
| 26 | He listens to me explaining that the front door was unlocked . |
| 27 | We shall return to this issue later , but it surprised me to discover that the population of Waltham Forest needed more expenditure per head for such deprivation than that of Cleveland and about the same amount as Knowsley ; similar observations stem from the comparison of Hackney and Westminster , although this is hampered by including components referring to ILEA . |
| 28 | So it should have come as no real surprise to me to discover that the ’ gear ’ Penny so briefly dismissed included a 17 foot aluminium boat , 24hp outboard , a trailer ( obviously ) , a seine net and a lot of angling equipment . |
| 29 | I 'd even had a call from the Archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Runcie , who had been kind enough to phone to say that he had been greatly moved by the vigil and had wanted to let me know that the situation was n't hopeless . |
| 30 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |