Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where this is done it matters not that the pedestrians have n't put a foot on the crossing or that they have actually crossed and the offence can still be committed ( Gullen v Ford [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 24 and Connor v Paterson ( 1977 ) 121 Sol Jo 392 ) . |
| 2 | There was no indication that they , unlike the aggro leaders , were actively engaged in inciting other fans to join in the scraps or that they led concerted attacks against the opposition . |
| 3 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 4 | It was an inconsequential remark but she hoped it might lead to some interesting revelation on Ianthe 's part , that Bishop Heber had been an ancestor or that she loved Victorian poetry , for , looking at the bookshelves , she was sure that she did . |
| 5 | The project was approved at ministerial level because it had been decided that the contract either did not significantly enhance Iraq 's military capability or that it had been signed before December , 1984 . |
| 6 | Conveyancing documents should include a certificate by the purchaser saying either that he had been fully advised by a wholly independent practitioner or that he had declined such advice — and the certificate should contain a prominent ‘ health warning ’ against declining to take it . |
| 7 | Far better that workers adopt an ‘ I ’ m all right Jack ’ mentality coupled with the chance to make a bit on the side than that they go on strike and make demands for higher wages in their main jobs . |
| 8 | Even with sentences not of the form A is f(X) it is often the case that a sentence containing a hyponym unilaterally entails a parallel sentence which is identical in all respects except that it contains a superordinate in place of the hyponym : |
| 9 | Then we went to a lake with wooded and marshy shores where we saw several ‘ new ’ birds : a crane flew past , looking like a grey heron except that it carried its neck outstretched in flight instead of ‘ folded back ’ . |
| 10 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 11 | I can think of no way round this dilemma except that you come in person and explain to her that it is an entirely business-like arrangement . |
| 12 | So it , it is hard to say , erm and I would n't like to make a prediction except that I think the number of postgraduate students may have fallen more than the number of undergraduate students , and that we may see already even in this first year erm a substantial not altogether healthy change in the national makeup of overseas students . |
| 13 | Evidence is growing , however , that we have a need to express our grief and that we ignore it at our peril . |
| 14 | He remembers Mr Lamont using a gold Access card and that he signed his name simply Norman Lamont . |
| 15 | My Lord the started sum of money originally , sixty thousand pounds was the total loan and there were further overdraught facilities and and it 's the plaintiff 's case that without it it was simply not going to be manageable and as a result of that having thought carefully about erm , position it is his case that he rang Peter , told him that there were major problems in the financing of the deal and asked him if he could get him out of the contract because the finance he anticipated was no longer going to be available and it was his case that Peter advised him that there was no way out because contracts had been exchanged , er Mr was told very clearly that he was committed legally now to the deal and that he 'd better try and rearrange some finances since clearly they were moving towards er the completion date . |
| 16 | And so it might , provided it was only a passing mention and that it contributed properly to the pattern of the book . |
| 17 | Frank claimed that he had not known that Gobie was running a prostitution service from Frank 's apartment on Capitol Hill and that he had dismissed him upon learning of it . |
| 18 | Darci Alves confessed to sole responsibility , in what was seen as an attempt to get his father acquitted , but a key prosecution witness , Genesio Ferreira da Silva , 15 , a former employee and relative of the Alves family , stated that he had overheard both of them plotting the murder and that they had celebrated its successful execution with a barbecue . |
| 19 | Suppose you think abortion is murder and that it makes no difference whether the pregnancy is the result of rape . |
| 20 | Both Brazilians say they are happy away from the pressures of a big club and that they want to stay . |
| 21 | There had been Lewis , the guy who was down on cutlery and condiments , and much earlier a bloke called Evans , who maintained that Old Mother Walsh was really a man in drag and that it behoved members of the Church ‘ to wear the clothes of the other kind ’ . |
| 22 | The team working on the Elton project says it 's had definite results — increasing some children 's concentration and that they join in more than before . |
| 23 | He tells me you asked for advice because of tantrums and that you agreed to him asking me to call on you … ’ . |
| 24 | Frederick did not care to see that these ambitions could only be satisfied at Poland 's expense and that they threatened Poland 's existence . |
| 25 | To prove contrary evidence it was necessary to have either positive proof that the document was returned to the sender or , if sent by recorded delivery , that there was no acknowledgement of receipt , or if there was evidence of the document having been received by some person , there was proof that the person was not the intended recipient and that he had not brought the document to the notice of the person required to be served . |
| 26 | With a start , he saw that the girl in black underwear was slumped , dead , across a couch and that she had been strangled with a scarf , which was still knotted around her neck . |
| 27 | According to second-hand reports of the conversation Krishchaty said that the body was lying on the ground at about 8,250m and that they had passed it two or three times . |
| 28 | It s vital that the school has an agreed policy on equal opportunities and that it carries the wholehearted support of both governors and staff . |
| 29 | The Hegelian model of the coexistence of presence which allows the possibility of the ‘ essential section ’ is incompatible with this description , but Althusser continues to assume nevertheless that there is a totality and that it has ‘ the structure of an organic hierarchised whole ’ ( 98 ) . |
| 30 | Therefore , make sure that you are in current flying practice and that you choose a straightforward day without a high wind , severe turbulence or a cross-wind component . |