Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she took one step more towards me so that a bar of light fell across her face and I could see the angry expression on it . |
| 2 | Did I tell you once that a nurse on erm radiotherapy did my psychometry ? |
| 3 | The lawyers had told her vaguely that a woman from the village came in to clean — but she had quite expected to find the furniture shrouded in dust-sheets , and a general air of cheerlessness such as is usually associated with empty houses . |
| 4 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 5 | Before the strip cools , take the candle and tip it so that a drop of wax falls on to the strip and spreads out around the hole . |
| 6 | It was put to me recently that a guitar 's country of origin is irrelevant when determining its overall quality in the market place . |
| 7 | Despite the appearance given by the EEG of probing the machinery of the brain , electroencephalography is a relatively gross technique which tells us only that a population of neural units is active rather than quiescent . |
| 8 | And has n't Wittgenstein shown us anyway that a concept can be perfectly healthy without being definable , arguing that there need be no element common to all instances of a property ( e.g. instances of knowledge ) other than that they are instances ( e.g. that they are knowledge ) ? |