Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not till we saw the captive aerostat balloon with its ever watching radar that the Americans had hoisted over Grand Bahama to probe for boats or aircraft smuggling drugs , that the Maggot again spoke , and by then he had recaptured all his old insouciance . |
| 2 | Not because she was a clairvoyant forecasting trends which suddenly came true , but because this was the moment when her consistently held belief that clothes were part of an overall way of living was now applauded by the market . |
| 3 | The Council reiterates its previously expressed view that the existing system of local government in Scotland should be retained , that a convincing case for change remains to be made and that the cost , confusion and disruption involved in the proposed reorganisation is not justified . |
| 4 | He did not explain why the campaign had suddenly reversed its recently declared position that passports would be needed for more than 300,000 key wage-earners in the colony as well as their families . |
| 5 | Twenty years in the House still had n't dampened his extraordinary enthusiasm for the job and his not unappealing surprise that he should actually be there . |
| 6 | ‘ Central to the theme is our strongly held belief that society is suffering now for the liberal views of the Sixties . |
| 7 | That there must be such an imbalance follows from our consistently maintained position that the rational man can never rise above his spontaneous inclinations , merely learn to choose rationally between them . |