Example sentences of "[that] [subord] [pron] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I would be happy , I mean , I purposely , I put some lines in just because I was thinking that way at the time , but I 'd be very happy if other people would scribble it out , change it , throw it back at me , you know , I would like to see I suppose , just to see if we can erm , if that , because , because I have to say that although you know part of reading 's letter , erm , I feel it 's , it , it feels destructive and it feels very critical . |
| 2 | I asked if she had made a separate tension swatch for the stocking stitch , to which she replied yes and that although she used stitch size 7 for the Fair Isle and 5.2 for the stocking stitch , it had matched exactly ( ? ) . |
| 3 | We may say , then , that line A is less precise , less specific than line B. Line A is not swallowed up in line B , however ; it is not the case that once we have line B we can dispense with line A. Rather , line B provides the clue or the context within which the uncertainty of line A is resolved . |
| 4 | I reassured Mrs Singh that once he started playgroup there would be an improvement . |
| 5 | Let us instantly quit this cursed house that once I took pleasure in . |
| 6 | They point to statistics which show that salt intake is ‘ far in excess of need ’ and may lead to raised blood pressure in susceptible adults , and that if everyone reduced salt intake by half a teaspoon a day , it could save 40,000 premature deaths per year . |
| 7 | Underlying all actions is the fear that if they show emotion and feelings , they will be led again to submit to an outside control . |
| 8 | Later ex-Croydon staff found to their cost that if they accepted promotion , they then came under London Transport conditions , which followed closely UndergrounD Group practices . |
| 9 | But has n't it occurred to you that if they have access to knowledge and culture from a previous machine age , yet still continue with their own customs , then maybe they have reasons which seem at least to them to be perfectly good and sufficient ? ’ |
| 10 | They can say that if one takes belief in a God or gods as the criterion of a religion , then classical Buddhism can not be classified as a religion . |
| 11 | It tells of a young offenders institution where five inmates have made a pact that if one commits suicide the other four can be freed ‘ for psychological reasons ’ . |
| 12 | Until then , it had hardly occurred to me that if one had cancer , one might not know . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , pro-choicers argue that if we restrict abortion to 18 weeks , then next year it will be 15 , then 12 . |
| 14 | Foucault describes how we are living in a world of endless insatiable chatter about sex which feeds on the illusion that if we question Sex enough it will reveal its Truths . |
| 15 | I can now reveal that if we remain second from bottom we will not be relegated . |
| 16 | I was making the point that if we judge concern for safety by the money spent on it , then by any measurement or definition , it is a sad indictment of the official concern expressed in the 1980s . |
| 17 | Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here . |
| 18 | Not for the Germans that weary British cry that if we spend money on training workers , someone will poach them . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're frightened that if we see Grandson Richard it 'll mean there really is an Arnold Bros and you 'll have been wrong ! |
| 20 | You could guarantee that if you waited top of one of those yards that somebody would be fighting or wanted to fight or a window could get broken or , or either men or women . |
| 21 | I think it 's also easy to argue that if you take money out of government allocation for service delivery greater than the amount that is necessary , then actually , the people that are getting in in in the sense of capital schemes , the losers are the people that lose out on front line direct services . |
| 22 | Allow me to say , sir , that if you make Mistress Andrews your lady she will do credit to your choice . |
| 23 | It was accepted at this time that if you had talent you could sponge and exploit , as Colquhoun and MacBryde did when they abused Elizabeth Smart 's hospitality at Tilty Mill , a house belonging to Ruthven Todd and where they created havoc . |
| 24 | Now twenty two is not a large number , certainly not large enough for any statistical reliability to be placed on the result , but the fact remains that if you had bet on every single horse in that season at two to one on , and had bet the same amount , then you 'd have finished ahead . |
| 25 | So the lesson is that if you use masking tape , or any other pressure sensitive tape , to hinge your works of art on paper , you should expect them to be showing yellow stains form the adhesive in four to five years time . |
| 26 | I mean I know from my own personal experience that if you come fly from New York to London and you eat a meal in a restaurant or in a hotel in New York and then the next day you eat one in London , you do find that the services is much slower , for example . |
| 27 | sorry , sir , that if you took offence at anything I said . |
| 28 | The typical conjecture is that if you protect car driver from their mistakes you encourage bad driving . |
| 29 | My personal view tended to be that if you approached Mains in a straightforward way and asked the straight question then you got the straight and honest answer . |
| 30 | The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long . |