Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] [vb -s] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the examiner may not agree that the fact is implied in the question ; but he will not mind about this if he sees that your assumption is not the result of carelessness but is your considered interpretation of the question . |
| 2 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 3 | The APA also questions the current rule that the state must prove that a defendant is sane if he claims that he is insane . |
| 4 | The mention of Cyprus is interesting because it shows that Egypt was not mere opportunism : the decision to attack Persia in strength on Cyprus had already been made . |
| 5 | I found that interesting because it appears that the Minister does not know how many doctors made a claim that was above the amount of the reimbursement schedule or , if he did know , he was unwilling to tell me , so I must presume that he did not know . |
| 6 | King is currently on holiday but Mr Corfe added : ‘ John will be delighted when he hears about this because he feels that getting into the Pontins League is , in the long-term , almost as important as getting into the Premier League . ’ |
| 7 | The law , ‘ All planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ , is scientific because it claims that planets in fact move in ellipses and rules out orbits that are square or oval . |
| 8 | This shows that the actualization of the infinitive 's event is not what such sentences express , an analysis supported by Coates ( 1983 : 100 ) , who gives a similar argument for the meaning of can in her discussion of She can swim , and Palmer ( 1977 : 5 ) , who has pointed out that a sentence such as ( 12 ) is impossible because can " is not used to imply actuality in the past " : ( 12 ) * I ran fast and could catch the bus , Example ( 13 ) however is quite acceptable because it implies that the event did not take place , being seen merely as a possibility in the past ( i.e. a potentiality ) . |
| 9 | The person beset by fears and anxieties who nevertheless manages to present a confident exterior will often feel self-contempt because he feels that he is living a lie and that one day someone will catch him out . |
| 10 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |
| 11 | My right hon. Friend must be wrong when he says that we are spending 4.3 per cent . |
| 12 | Editor , — Catherine Pope is wrong when she states that the patient 's charter promises patients a maximum outpatient waiting time of 30 minutes . |
| 13 | The Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva adds another dimension to this when she says that ‘ reading is complicity in the creative process ’ ( quoted in Brodsky 1987 ) . |
| 14 | This passage is interesting as it assumes that there would have been no right of recovery in any of the cases to which the section referred although had the Woolwich principle been applicable there would have been recovery , apart from the section , in some . |
| 15 | He is incredulous when she says that some people might think better of Jason for confessing his fear . |
| 16 | But comparing depression to a cold is misleading in so much as it implies that the condition is not only common , but mild . |
| 17 | Erm and that 's , of course , why she 's so delighted when she finds that the Rivers are her relations . |
| 18 | The dilemma of those who evoke consciousness as the basis of phenomena was succinctly stated by Ronnie Knox in his limerick on idealism : There once was a man who said " God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there 's no one about in the Quad . " |
| 19 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 20 | The Stylesetter Award is particularly gratifying as it confirms that Stoddard Templeton is continuing to lead the way in carpet development through its design expertise . |
| 21 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 22 | So in fact a high score is , is quite good because it means that you recognize what your preferences actually are . |
| 23 | The falsification of cautious conjectures is informative because it establishes that what was regarded as unproblematically true is in fact false . |
| 24 | Detection of a semantic anomaly is highly informative because it indicates that an error may have been made either in understanding the context , or in perceiving the new unit . |
| 25 | This approach is potentially useful since it suggests that women 's under-representation in public politics can be seen not simply in terms of women 's lack of interest in politics but of the ability of men to prevent women 's issues entering politics . |
| 26 | But Althusser imposes one stringent limitation on the types that are admissible when he asserts that Marxist history is ‘ a process without a subject ’ . |
| 27 | This heading , which the report uses , is illuminating as it indicates that , for the government at least , old age and disability are synonymous . |
| 28 | As long as he knows that he is loved and being thought about . |
| 29 | Like the unit in Pembrokeshire , it has done that because it believes that it can satisfy the Secretary of State on four points : first , that such a move would show benefits for patients ; secondly , that it would improve management capability ; thirdly , that clinicians would be involved in management ; and , fourthly , that the trust has a future of financial soundness . |
| 30 | It simply does not follow that because the legal forms have been observed , the results are more reliable ; any more than it follows that whenever the forms are breached , the results are unreliable . |