Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [prep] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the Niemecz mechanical organs bearing Haydn compositions : Neumann criticizes me for saying that the machines play ‘ within a narrow range , stating that the machines ’ air brakes can be set in such a way ‘ that the speed is either halved or doubled ’ , and that therefore ‘ the question of an absolute original tempo becomes pointless . ’ |
| 2 | IBM is usually pretty forthcoming about the markets that it foresees for its products , but in this case limits itself to saying that it will appeal to professionals who would prefer ‘ easy-to-remember voice commands ’ to complicated keystrokes or mouse movements . |
| 3 | This finding warns us against concluding that women get into heroin and sustain regular use solely because of male associations and partnerships . |
| 4 | Mr Menem woos them by saying that both money wages and public-sector employment should rise . |
| 5 | Such a peculiar coincidence startles me into remembering that I have something to write for Esquire . |
| 6 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 7 | He praises him for insisting that we free ourselves from the Idols , get rid of preconceived notions , and form our ideas on the basis of properly conducted experiments . |
| 8 | The curriculum justifies itself by saying that unless teachers deliberately introduce the subject of homosexuality to the classroom it would be unlikely ever to arise among the children themselves . |
| 9 | Arthur Schopenhauer ( 1788–1860 ) accuses him of holding that animals are mere things : ‘ Thus only for practice are we to have sympathy for animals ’ ( Regan and Singer 1976 : 125 ) . |
| 10 | The practice of ‘ practical criticism ’ in fact unconsciously takes it for granted that the readers already know enough about poetry to have a grasp of rules and conventions sufficient to make adequate sense of the passage . |
| 11 | It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies . |
| 12 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 13 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 14 | Such studies are rare since they require an examination of media practices and content as well as a critical assessment of the media 's presentation of the ‘ real world ’ — an assessment which takes it for granted that the media do not reproduce ‘ reality ’ in a pure form ; their use of language and images as well as the working practices of journalists inevitably refract ‘ reality ’ , so ‘ distorting ’ it . |
| 15 | A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ . |
| 16 | He just takes it for granted that it always looks like this . |
| 17 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 18 | He takes it for granted that in human generation the female is the passive principle , the male the active . |
| 19 | McDonald 's belongs to a federation of companies in the same business and the area man takes it for granted that the firm 's competitors will soon hear about the relaxed consent and apply to the agency for similar leniency . |
| 20 | As we shall see later the social anthropologist 's view of society as a network of person-to-person relationships almost takes it for granted that all human interactions can be broken down into elements of binary exchange of this kind . |
| 21 | A judgement that an action is morally good is universalizable in the sense that by making such a judgement one commits oneself to holding that any relevantly similar action is morally good . |
| 22 | But although Lobkowicz ( 1967 ) cautions us against assuming that Aristotle 's distinction between theory and practice is similar to today 's usage , and suggests that it was as much a matter of the context as the content of knowledge — types of life as well as types of thought — the dichotomy is still very much with us . |
| 23 | There is , in other words , a double overlap in the ministry of Jesus , which prevents us from assuming that Father , Son and Spirit are three moulds into which the Deity pours himself at different periods in the history of salvation . |
| 24 | This prevents us from supposing that the conditional in question , to speak in the ontologically extravagant way , comes to this : in the possible world where it is raining , but everything else is the same as in this world save that the balcony is wet , the balcony is indeed wet . |
| 25 | It misleads one into thinking that a person is somehow divorced from his body , a disembodied observer of it . |
| 26 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 27 | The modern control room fools us into thinking that we have more accurate and basic control , while the basics of actual quantification of change have not altered , merely the presentation of inaccurate data in more sophisticated ways . |
| 28 | Hirsch 's formulation does not exclude the possibility of understanding literature in aesthetic terms , it merely prohibits us from claiming that this is how literature is , essentially , to be comprehended . |
| 29 | Rob teases her by saying that she 'd rather go round a supermarket than climb a mountain , but there 's ‘ many a true word … ’ and all that . |
| 30 | Wealth , on the other hand , by the power it bestows , deceives us into believing that we depend on ourselves only . |