Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] often [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local bye-laws have diminished the flexibility of matches to such an extent that I often feel that I could write a script for them , observing the necessary theatrical unities and climaxing the set piece with a compulsory exciting denouement — a bit like and episode of Neighbours . |
| 2 | Although she often maintained that it was her own choice not to attend , she told an American interviewer , I would love to go to board meetings where he [ Bernard ] is chairman but I 'm not invited . |
| 3 | One of the most revealing facts about using BM is that you often discover that inadvertently you are either rewarding undesirable behaviour and hence encouraging it , or are mistakenly punishing good behaviour . |
| 4 | The fact that we often feel that our thoughts come unheralded by ‘ intentions ’ , that the content of our mental life is unwilled , just demonstrates how thin is the layer of consciousness . |
| 5 | SIR — It has already been reported that , contrary to official policy , the scientific merits of candidates for academic promotion in Italy are not given primary consideration by the members of the judging commission , so it often happens that a loser has a curriculum vitae ( c.v. ) clearly superior to that of a winner . |
| 6 | They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've tried many different mics and I often find that some of the more expensive condenser mics do n't sound as good as something like a good , straightforward Shure 57 or something like that — one of the cheaper dynamic mics . |
| 8 | She called it desertion and I often suspected that there was another man . ’ |
| 9 | This was particularly true of people who had close knit kin networks , who were unlikely to use individual kin as close confidants , and who often said that there were certain kin — usually parents — whom they would definitely not consult ( ibid . |
| 10 | Just move onto the next one then media trainer I started talking to the training school about doing some training for officers it started with C I D cos you often find that a D S is an acting D I and when we asked them to do an interview about a crime or incident they say we 've not done radio interviews before , so Phil has er supported it and we 're gon na run some sort of training scheme one day courses for them . |
| 11 | That , as I see it , is a very common situation especially where there is some pressure to get contracts exchanged , as there frequently is , and one often finds that at exchange not all the loose ends are tidied up and it is necessary to have some last minute adjustment of the contract which takes the form of side letters … |
| 12 | Final scores were much lower on both tests , and they often indicated that symptoms were no longer clinically significant . |
| 13 | In an obituary , Seamus Heaney wrote , ‘ There was about him a delicate wildness , and he often thought that the hare , about which he had gathered so many entrancing stories , was his proper , total animal . |
| 14 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
| 15 | But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre . |
| 16 | Ipswich have used the new rolling substitutes rule to their advantage this season but it often means that the first choice players are only off the pitch for five or ten minutes at a time . |
| 17 | According to this school of thought there is neither the domination of an officer nor a member elite but rather the domination of an officer-member elite ( see Saunders , 1980 ) but this joint-elite model can be criticized because it often assumes that , important as leading officers and councillors are , they have a monopoly of decision-making influence . |
| 18 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |
| 19 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
| 20 | " For it often happens that in such discussions , in order to promote the common good , talk has nevertheless centred on a single individual . " |