Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [conj] [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reducing The Risk , a leaflet sponsored by British Telecom and published by the Trust , emphasises that if you feel frightened , you should listen to your instincts and speak calmly , gently and slowly . |
| 2 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 3 | I did n't have a Valium injection and I did n't have laughing gas ( who needs that when you 've got an entertaining toothbrush ? ) , and I did n't cry or faint or bite the hygienist or do any of the things normally associated with one of my trips to the dentist . |
| 4 | A utilitarian of this sort holds that once we have adopted a fundamentally utilitarian standpoint all specific ethical questions become factual and can be approached empirically . |
| 5 | A standard story , repeated by travellers and natives alike , holds that if you travel 50 miles in Britain you will encounter a different sign language that can not be understood in the region you have just left . |
| 6 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 7 | Stroud grants that if we want to know how a third person can know the nature of reality , we might carry out a psychological investigation of his methods of information processing , and then compare the results of his reasoning with known facts . |
| 8 | She says that if we spend the night together , Papa will have to let us marry . |
| 9 | He says that if they fail to get jobs he wants them to know how to live off the land and be able to feed their families . |
| 10 | His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is . |
| 11 | Crilly says that if you listen well , you can hear the Irish in her right enough . |
| 12 | The card you get from the man says that if you get into arrears you have to pay extra interest , but it does n't say how much . |
| 13 | The Proverbs of the Old Testament return over and over again to the theme that men should beware women ; the Jewish Talmud says that if you teach the Laws to a woman , you teach her lasciviousness ; the Hindu sage Manu teaches that if women go unrestrained , the result is anarchy ; and the oft-quoted Church Fathers and medieval theologians appear to respond to the idea of the Female with fear and disgust . |
| 14 | The Concise Oxford Dictionary ( which I 'm sure you read every night before going to sleep ) says that if you respect someone you will avoid : |
| 15 | It also says that if you respect someone you will ‘ treat them with consideration ’ and ‘ esteem them ’ ( think of them as valuable ) . |
| 16 | Reality says that if you set up a store and you 're undercapitalised , you 're going to go bust . |
| 17 | Section 15 of the 1968 Theft Act says that if you issue a cheque when you know you have no money in your bank you are committing a criminal offence . |
| 18 | He says that if you hold the sheep properly , it wo n't struggle . |
| 19 | yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method |
| 20 | Today , there is an attitude which says that if you do n't want an active sex life , there must be something wrong with you . |
| 21 | ‘ Lil says that if you do n't want the ticket , she 'll pass it on to someone else in the division . |
| 22 | Mother Francis says that if you have a questioning mind you get to know all the answers . ’ |
| 23 | She says that when you 've nearly lost a child you realise that cost is irrelevant : Locks must be fitted to save lives . |
| 24 | ‘ Role theory ’ says that where we arrive in society shapes our lives . |
| 25 | The Guidance says that where they intend " to limit the way in which a parent meets his responsibility this should be discussed with the parent and incorporated in the plan of arrangements for the child whilst in care so that it may be subject to periodic review " ( para 3.68 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Being called at an inconvenient time by an insensitive caller who assumes that since you 've answered the phone it must be convenient to talk ’ . |
| 27 | This , however , assumes that because we tend to process more semantic knowledge than non-semantic knowledge , it therefore follows that semantic processing is equivalent to making use of previous knowledge to interpret presented stimuli in a meaningful fashion . |
| 28 | The Dept. of Health warns that if you have not had a vaccination , you should either have the polio vaccination yourself or avoid changing nappies when your baby is vaccinated . |
| 29 | Mr Scannell warns that if you own French property you must plan ahead for inheritance — under French law your children will have first crack at the property . |
| 30 | In our society we would normally not interpret a phrase like that wrongly , because everyday usage confirms that when we say someone is an ass we mean they have been rather stupid . |