Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just for a moment she let her hand linger on his sleeve , then slowly withdrew it , wondering if she was glad or sorry that he had given her such an insight into what made him the man he was today . |
| 2 | Sorry that Oliver had gone , or sorry that she would be alone ? |
| 3 | Frequently , senior executives are offered a termination package deal at the time when they are first told that it is likely or unavoidable that their job will come to an end . |
| 4 | Or afraid that your mother might have lied ? ’ |
| 5 | When she had made the rounds of the many churches in Lynne , she was ‘ urged in her soul to go and visit certain places for ghostly health ’ , and her husband , either from kindness , or afraid that she would get into trouble , accompanied her . |
| 6 | Okay erm what I 'd like you to do now is I 'd like you to tell me what you think are the important things about fractions and anything important or interesting that you 've learnt this afternoon . |
| 7 | Nevertheless there was a chance , perhaps , that a French government might have been so far-sighted or faint-hearted that it would have ordered a cease-fire , entered into serious negotiations , abandoned its insistence on membership of the French Union , accepted , at least by instalments , an independent , more or less communist state in a presumably close relationship with either the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party , or both , and been prepared to rely on Vietminh goodwill , such as it might be , for the preservation of whatever position they chose to accord France . |
| 8 | However full of features your software is — and Ami Pro 3.0 is a front runner in this respect — you are always likely to find something different or extra that you want . |
| 9 | Not knowing the decorative style of the new home is an important point to bear in mind when planning a picture of this sort , so it is always best to choose colours and frames that are attractive without being so dramatic or colourful that you considerably reduce their hanging potential . |
| 10 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 11 | He had often , in their earlier correspondence , spoken of a test or ideal that he wished to impose on himself as a rein on his passionate temperament and his over-eager response to physical beauty and joy . |
| 12 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 13 | He wants to draw us into the vortex of non-personhood that he has become , and the nothingness or non-being that he is becoming . |
| 14 | ‘ Unlikely that my mental cogs can turn or unlikely that I will see anything ? ’ |
| 15 | But it is at scrum-half or stand-off that he eventually aims to establish himself . |
| 16 | Sally was unsure whether to be pleased that Louise was including her or annoyed that she had called her fat . |
| 17 | I was concentrating too hard to feel elated or amazed that I had actually trained this wild creature to come to me at will . |
| 18 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 19 | I suppose everyone had the feeling sometime or other that they 'd like to be free , walk out , wander over the earth . |
| 20 | And er I got roped into it one year because I had to stop in for something or other that I Course I had n't done but |
| 21 | Perhaps those who know the truth will be too lazy or too diffident or too poor to publish while whose who believe in error will be so rich , or well organized , or self-confident that they will control the presses and the television studios and dominate the ‘ free market in ideas ’ . |
| 22 | It 's more than possible that she cleans up here … ’ |
| 23 | It looks more than possible that it will be on its wheels next year . |
| 24 | IT IS more than possible that I am missing a point , showing a lack of imagination , remaining in the Middle Ages and have my feet firmly stuck in the mud when I am under the impression they are just on the ground . |
| 25 | It 's more than possible that there were a number of courtiers with the same build and looks as he . ’ |
| 26 | How do you find the actual , what do you f do you think of the actual flat itself , leaving out the problems that outside that you 've , in terms of crime you 've referred to , what do you think of the actual flat itself ? |
| 27 | Some of my friends have been frightened into no longer wanting to smoke , others have faced the facts but are reconciled to being fonder of smoking than they are afraid of cancer , but I myself yield to the temptation to smoke although convinced that I ought to abstain . |
| 28 | Although convinced that she had been drugged before the race at York , she had little chance of persuading three Jockey Club stewards that she had not been drunk , out of her depth , hysterical , and she did n't want Nick to know either . |
| 29 | I 'm surprised you should think it 's anything other than natural that he should want to bath her . ’ |
| 30 | I had begun to feel that ill that I did n't care , but I was back riding out three lots three weeks after the op . ’ |