Example sentences of "[coord] that [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well it may be that they do n't know how to , or that they set out such patterns of relating together that they have n't got the means of coping with it . |
| 3 | To contend under these circumstances that Jesus was a feminist , or that he spoke out for women , must imply a very low estimate of what being a feminist ( or speaking out for women ) might mean . |
| 4 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 5 | When , with colleagues in the Department of Social Administration , I interviewed members of the divorcing population , they argued passionately that divorce was too easy ( or too difficult ) ; that everything was rushed through before they had time to think ( or that it dragged on interminably ) ; and that divorce should be morally neutral ( or that there should be an inquest in which every detail of their spouse 's despicable conduct was exposed to public view ) . |
| 6 | One should of course record one 's satisfaction that the two leaders got on well together , and that they smoothed over certain niggling differences . |
| 7 | I suppose that bearded bloke must 'ave dropped it , I suppose I must 'ave picked it up without thinking and that I went off with it in an absent-minded way . |
| 8 | Another possibility is that a woman had a bomb wired to her , and that it went off as she gave flowers to Mr Gandhi . |
| 9 | The armed robber might say that he had no intention of using the firearm , that he carried it with him simply to frighten the victim , and that it went off accidentally : if the jury believes that , should he be convicted of murder ? |
| 10 | The Angel of Death was closer now , shadowed in the half-light from the church , the two marble attendants on guard at the mausoleum 's bronze doors , everything as usual except that tonight , I could have sworn that there was a third figure and that it moved out of the darkness towards me . |
| 11 | The ‘ foolish years ’ as a Battersea Grammar school boy confirmed certain attitudes that Edward Thomas never abandoned and that he passed on to his children . |
| 12 | What is striking is that Peada was baptized by Fínán , Aidan 's successor as bishop of Lindisfarne , at Ad Murum in the vicinity of Hadrian 's Wall , and that he took back with him four priests , Cedd , Adda , Betti and Diuma , to work among the Middle Angles , the Irishman Diuma receiving consecration from Fínán , according to Bede , as bishop of the Middle Angles and the Mercians ( HE 111 , 13 ) . |
| 13 | The prosecution said : ‘ It is the Crown case that the accused was one of the two persons who lay in wait for this unfortunate young man and that he participated in , observed and encouraged the assault on the deceased . ’ |
| 14 | It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him . |
| 15 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |