Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] that [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The secret was kept in the way most secrets are kept , which is to say that although the truth did not get out , something got out . |
| 2 | Used alone they exhibit a specific characteristic known as inverse solubility by which is meant that as temperature increases they drop out of solution contrary to expected behaviour . |
| 3 | See , she 's sneaking that if you |
| 4 | So quite clearly individual family situations will change , and I 'd like to use this opportunity to get the message across to everybody who 's listening that when we introduce the charges you 'll all get a letter , and the letter will say also that there is a waiver scheme , and the procedure you should go through to be considered for that . |
| 5 | She is inferring that when mortals feel secure , and sound in their knowledge of others , then that is the time for them to be unsure of most , because if anything is going to happen , it will happen then . |
| 6 | She is told that if she catches sight of him when he visits her in the darkness , he will leave her . |
| 7 | Who is to say that if , miraculously , all sexual abuse could be discovered , the statistics would not reveal more involvement by women . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's said that if the flame-retardant with which they 're treated could be bottled it 'd be the first guaranteed aphrodisiac . ’ |
| 9 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 10 | He studied engineering in both France and Germany , patenting the first compression ignition engine in 1892 , so it is fitting that while Germany probably had the early lead , particularly with trucks , French makers have had a love affair with diesel cars since the 1930s . |
| 11 | In this regard , it is recognised that while a faith background can be assumed in the Catholic R.E . |
| 12 | It is said that if you visit the Mermaid Pool of Derbyshire just before dawn , you will see them swimming gracefully in the dark waters below . |
| 13 | Typically for the Piaroa , the women are not warned against seeing the instruments with a threat of rape ; rather , it is said that if a woman should see the flutes , the entire village must commit mass suicide by joining hands and jumping off a cliff ( and I must admit that their reasoning on this is not clear to me ) . |
| 14 | It is said that if the Logos is to be conceived to be in some sense male , then equally the Spirit is to be held to be female . |
| 15 | It is said that if a placebo is to have a therapeutic effect , the patient must believe that it will . |
| 16 | It is said that when he heard his own voice on the radio , some seven years after writing this letter , Lewis was surprised and in some measure disconcerted . |
| 17 | ( It is said that when playing his ‘ interview ’ round of golf he did each of the holes from 13–18 inclusive in three ) . |
| 18 | It is said that when travelling by boat the Duchess of Windsor sent to the bridge for hourly weather reports to be sure that she was appropriately clad . |
| 19 | Perhaps for this reason the topmost stone supposedly retains its own curious powers : it is said that when a cock crows nearby , it turns three times . |
| 20 | Now it is said that when in the present case the tenant entered pursuant to the agreement and paid a yearly rent he became a tenant from year to year on the terms of the agreement including clause 6 which prevents the landlord from giving notice to quit until the land is required for road widening . |
| 21 | It is said that when Christie moved into the new mill he took the machinery with him and this must have included the scribbler and carder. with the " Devondale " piercing machine , the slubbing Billy and spinning Jennys . |
| 22 | It is said that when a High King or Queen is born , if the child is Ireland 's true heir , they will sing him into the world and they will weave a spell of protectiveness . ’ |
| 23 | It is said that when received the wrappers are of no value to Nestle 's . |
| 24 | It is said that when a wizard is about to die Death himself turns up to claim him ( instead of delegating the task to a subordinate , such as Disease or Famine , as is usually the case ) . |
| 25 | It is said that as he left , blood flowed from the nostrils of the dead king , a fact which some took as a sign since the body of a murdered man will bleed in the presence of his murderer ; but Henry 's death was the outcome of a life lived at full tilt . |
| 26 | It is said that as route 30 was high on the list for trolleybus conversion , the rails on the new bridge were laid in shallow troughs , from which they could easily be removed , when the tram route was abandoned . |
| 27 | It is to say that whether it has done so can not be determined by asking whether the statute requires a certain state of facts to exist before a decision is reached : all statutes always do this . |
| 28 | It is recorded that when the Local Government Board assumed control of the waterworks in 1854 , Henry was most upset . |
| 29 | it is seen that if equally split each man would have had £13 : 11s. : 3d. for his 3½ months of labour . |
| 30 | Introducing the variable , it is seen that when this second contribution is but when it is To summarise , the foregoing analysis has established that the complete Fourier spectrum of a unit step function comprises a delta function centred on zero frequency that provides the mean direct level of one-half and a continuous spectrum of sinewaves with amplitude that provides the unit step about the mean . |