Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [pron] [vb -s] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case she argues that female creativity has been constructed by men as a contradiction in terms . |
| 2 | Thus if a policeman gives directions to a traveller , a doctor tells a nurse how to administer medicine to a patient , a householder puts in an insurance claim , a shop assistant explains the relative merits of two types of knitting wool , or a scientist describes an experiment , in each case it matters that the speaker should make what he says ( or writes ) clear . |
| 3 | I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for that reply which shows that the programme for road improvements not only increases traffic flows and reduces congestion but makes a direct and positive contribution to the reduction of road casualties . |
| 4 | The crossing is situated on a very busy dual carriageway where the speed limit is forty miles an hour and I would point th point out this literature which says that at forty miles an hour , if children are knocked into , most children are killed . |
| 5 | Paddy Sutton of the Lisburn Branch kindly send us this story which demonstrates that remembrance is a continuous process . |
| 6 | In this case it appears that the bolts have been placed , not for the purpose of protection , but to create an artificial gangway . |
| 7 | In this case it seems that the structure of the drama has made it too easy for the children — perhaps because of the non-confrontational role adopted by the teacher as messenger early on , when he was excited and enthusiastic about the railway and its effect on another town . |
| 8 | This split which ensures that the main emphasis in educational achievement rests on cognitive or intellectual pursuits contrasts with the situation in the Soviet Union where the central unity of the human being pervades all levels of education . |
| 9 | In this instance it seems that the client needed not so much advice on a course of action as legitimation from its lawyer . |
| 10 | It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world . |
| 11 | In this study it seems that the higher fibre diet expanded the proliferative compartment in both the proximal and distal colon and would thus appear to increase the risk of colonic mucosal cell instability . |
| 12 | Automatic end needle selection is another bonus which insures that knitted edges are always neat and tidy . |
| 13 | rejected this submission which implies that he read the judgment of Nolan L.J . |
| 14 | After a period of some confusion it seems that Carvin gear is going to get proper distribution in the UK . |
| 15 | But from the two paper on pages 539 and 541 of this issue it seems that , in at least one important respect , the mammalian visual cortex and the insect optic lobe operate upon visual patterns in a similar way . |
| 16 | The annexe has few refectory facilities , and on some days it seems that the queue for the coffee machine snakes endlessly around the corridors . |
| 17 | For some purposes it matters that mice are not cats , while for others what counts is that both are animals . |
| 18 | At some point it seems that Theo made a most fatuous comment . |
| 19 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |
| 20 | On this point it seems that the Literary Digest Poll and others committed two errors . |
| 21 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 22 | In another move which shows that the board intends to live up to the word ‘ control ’ in its title , it sent a message to the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road , where Frank Bruno is playing in Aladdin , to the effect that Bruno will not be able to rub his genie 's lamp and in a puff of smoke reappear in a world title fight . |
| 23 | Keshet and Rosenthal ( 1980 ) provide some evidence which suggests that children of divorced parents can relate positively both to their biological parents and to a step-parent . |
| 24 | Although a misrepresentation by B can render the contract between A and B voidable , there can be present some factor which renders that contract completely void . |
| 25 | To this day he thinks that he was accepted into the Royal College chiefly because Minton felt strong sympathy with the macabre apparition he presented . |
| 26 | His behaviour has n't been odd and speaking to his cell mate this morning it seems that he did n't speak to very many people either . |
| 27 | Also in this volume he declares that " at Kildalton , there are two crosses covered with sculpture , yet of clumsy proportions , and without any merit . " |
| 28 | Also in this volume he declares that " at Kildalton , there are two crosses covered with sculpture , yet of clumsy proportions , and without any merit . " |
| 29 | It is this covenant which ordains that the Christian Maronites hold the presidency , the leadership of the army and the head of the judiciary while Sunni Muslims provide the prime minister and Shia Muslims the speaker of the Lebanese parliament . |
| 30 | Bacon is an ‘ empiricist ’ , not because of some theory which shows that sensory experiential knowledge is superior , or prior , to knowledge acquired by reason , but because of methodological concern for advancing and improving the first kind of knowledge . |