Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many practices realised that their marketing had been deficient or that they needed to know more about trends and opportunities . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's real strange but I do n't feel cheated or that I deserved something and did n't get it ’ . |
| 3 | If , after a previously unblemished career , you are taken to task , it may be that your superiors ' requirements are unrealistic or that you have not yet been given sufficient time to adjust to the style of the new regime . |
| 4 | Held , ( 1 ) that on an appeal to the High Court from a decision of justices under the Children Act 1989 fresh evidence could be adduced only with leave in exceptional circumstances , and the court would not interfere with the exercise of the justices ' discretion unless it considered that their decision was plainly wrong or that they had erred in principle ; and that , further , an interm order would not lightly be interfered with in view of its temporary nature and the often provisional character of the evidence ( post , p. 271A–B ) . |
| 5 | I could n't see the logic of this except that it protected Thatcher from any hint of ‘ doing deals with terrorists ’ . |
| 6 | He looked like a buccaneer of old except that he wore not the wide-sleeved shirts and breeches of the past but the rough working clothes that had been her father 's . |
| 7 | His most recent biographer has observed that ‘ because Aymer de Valence held the English earldom of Pembroke and spent his entire career in English service it is easy to forget that in origin he was almost entirely French and that he retained very close links with France throughout his life ’ . |
| 8 | Perhaps my opinion on morality 's changed , you know , that there is right and wrong and all this and that you 've got to accept people . |
| 9 | But Liz revealed her hair was naturally curly and that she prefers to dry it straight . |
| 10 | But however one expresses it , all the evidence is that the quantum phenomenon and the uncertainty principle are unavoidable and that they occur in every branch of physics . |
| 11 | view is that one hopes that my hopes are that of the direct report you er worked for erm is equal and competent and is erm in a sense courageous and brave and that they realize that sometimes to get the best results you have to do things which are perhaps challenging and orthodox |
| 12 | In 1600 , the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for numerous heresies , including the proposition that the universe is infinite and that it contains an infinite number of worlds . |
| 13 | So if you 've got children looking at mortgages , just tell them to be careful and that I think really my advice would be to , for anyone starting off a new mortgage now , to definitely go for repayment , until they 've sorted out what they 're doing , because if you cash an endowment within two years , if you ca n't keep up the payments , if you lose your job , then y you get nothing back . |
| 14 | Use a green pencil to underline all the foods or meals you normally eat that you think are nutritionally sound and that you do not want to change . |
| 15 | However , in O'Reilly v. Mackman Lord Diplock argued that the present procedural regime for AJRs is more advantageous to applicants than that under the pre-1978 version of Ord. 53. and that it strikes a sound balance between the interests of applicants and respondents . |
| 16 | The Slovak parliament 's defence and security committee alleged that Meciar was registered with the security police or StB from 1985 and that he had removed incriminating evidence and promoted loyal former agents in the Slovak Interior Ministry after November 1989 . |
| 17 | The subtle choices involved in pronoun usage in languages which distinguish between familiar and non-familiar pronouns is further complicated by the fact that this use differs significantly from one social group to another and that it changes all the time in a way that reflects changes in social values and attitudes . |
| 18 | But what really brought it to light was your letter telling me I was contemptible and that you washed your hands of me ! |
| 19 | The concentration of platelet activating factor in this study ( 1.2 pg/h ) is much lower than that we had previously found in patients suffering from oesophagitis ( 28 pg/h ) , erosive gastritis ( 25 pg/h ) , and duodenal ulcer ( 5 pg/h ) . |
| 20 | Gutters and downpipes , once made of cast iron , are now nearly always of PVC , and none the worse for that except that they need more frequent supports . |
| 21 | What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two . |
| 22 | Now the city 's MP , Douglas French , says he believes their convictions were unsafe and that they have a powerful case for an appeal . |
| 23 | She was delighted that the coffee was real and that I had used a glass jug on a silver stand , where a nightlight kept it steaming . |
| 24 | It was also agreed that the gallery had been overheated and airless and that I had drunk too much . |
| 25 | A more recent commentator on Marx 's concept of ideology , Jorge Larrain , accepts that the concept is vague and that it has to be worked out from what little Marx wrote ( Larrain 1979 : 36 ) . |
| 26 | You know i i feeds into that idea I think that the the you know , people in Africa are impotent and that we have to put put into our pockets to help them when we 're destroying massive amounts of grain . |
| 27 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 28 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 29 | I was thinking for instance when you have generation of young men how do you , what 's the time left to something extreme can be done culturally and people can be sort of you know convinced that they 're right and that they go out there and get machine guns can be done culturally , whereas |
| 30 | Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties . |