Example sentences of "[that] [subord] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A group of young teenage girls once admitted to me that although they frequently complained because their parents insisted that they should be home by a certain time , they recognized that the deadline gave them a useful excuse for not getting out of their depth .
2 People write me letters saying that although they only know me from my photos , they feel that they know something about my personality .
3 In Caparo the House of Lords reviewed the statutory provisions relating to the position of auditors and concluded that although they undoubtedly created a relationship between auditors and shareholders , that relationship did not extend to the protection of all the shareholders ' possible interests .
4 Some people do this to such an extent that although they never get angry , they are not always kind or tolerant , and can be cold , dogmatic people .
5 She suggests that although they often manage to establish a compensatory psychological , domestic power base , this is also the arena of their greatest oppression .
6 They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon .
7 It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity .
8 The only trouble was that although he never missed a trick , he was dreadfully slow .
9 The key point about her is that although she obviously needs the state and its resources , she does not need these in the oppressive , bureaucratic and regulatory forms in which they come .
10 This arrangement was kept going very nicely by her daughter ( who had a real affection for her ) reminding her occasionally that although she sometimes had to cut their conversations short , she never cut her out of her thoughts when she put the phone down .
11 And the other thing is that once we actually get into the discussion session , if you want to ask a question or make a point , then if you just put your name board up on end then I c I 'll see whether you want you know , who wants to speak .
12 So the vicar signed a missing person report to be added to the dozens of others filed that day all over the country and that until something else happened would be that .
13 I am sure they thought that if they just gave us a token punishment , then the whole thing would all be forgotten .
14 The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period .
15 It appears that they can delay their body clock with ease but they can not advance it , so that if they ever go to bed late then they are stuck with a body clock ( and bed-time ) that tends to become ever more delayed .
16 And the point is that if they then change
17 That means that if they only take the score card then you 're in there fairly quickly do the advertising sales and come out and on to another site .
18 He demonstrated programs that drew brilliant-coloured three-dimensional designs , until those watching felt that if they too bought one they would have the same magical powers .
19 Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public .
20 They were the sort of things too which the parent generation owned , those old people that Adam , until Rufus laughed at him , had inadvertently called the grown-ups : sheets and blankets and knives and forks and pots and pans and more complicated appurtenances of living that if one ever thought about at all one supposed one would have to get together for oneself eventually .
21 Erm , it 's quite clear from the district auditor 's letter that he thinks that we 're not being systematic enough , about what we do about environmental improvements , and it seems fairly clear to me to , that if we just push the to the service committees , erm , nothing will ever happen , except possibly on planning , and that erm , it will just sort of quietly disappear because it 's not the top priority of any of the other service committees .
22 there are times when we think that if we really had faith , if we really believed , if we were true Christians then we would have this peace and serenity about us .
23 We know that if we really step out of line , then the police or the armed forces may step in with their right to use legitimate violence to force our conformity .
24 erm the I mean we have a pentadactyl limb , whether we climb or run or fly or swim , you can recognise an obvious deep anatomical resemblance between the limbs of organisms behaving as differently as that , and therefore that if we really want to understand evolution we have to understand these erm , I do n't know whether one wants to call them plans or archetypes , or structures , call them what you will .
25 He thought that if we really tried , we would be rewarded .
26 Anyone who wants to change anything will have to somehow change it without altering the figures because they 're settled and we know that if we ever go back to No. 10 or the Cabinet we 'll always get the backing of the Prime Minister and the appellant will always be overturned . ’
27 Vigno , who had served with the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , intimated that if we ever got to Corsica we would be expected to do it in under forty minutes .
28 In closing I must remark that if we ever make contact with aliens we should take them to Bangor and let them see all that is good in the human race .
29 I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’
30 I am glad that the hon. Gentleman welcomes the project , but he must face the harsh reality that if we ever had a Labour Government there would be no money available to pursue this project , let alone order any more type 43 frigates .
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