Example sentences of "this [verb] [that] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was a lady in the , in his congregation he preached to masses , to thousands and thousands of people , and she came to him , she was , she was annoyed , she was a rather er , well-to-do lady , and she was offended at this this preaching that she had to be born again , and that people had to have this new birth experience . |
| 2 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 3 | This stipulated that they had to have no less than 100,000 members " with the signature and number of the election list for each one of them " . |
| 4 | Part of the misconception arose because the bones of early humans have often been found with bones of other animals , and it was simplistically assumed that this showed that they had killed and eaten other animals , and had later died amid the remains of previous meals . |
| 5 | This showed that we have now implemented the majority of the recommendations while the remainder are either well in hand or about to be tackled . |
| 6 | This showed that he had not only been in the Catalina that had sighted the Bismarck but was actually piloting it and had taken avoiding action when the Bismarck opened fire . |
| 7 | Davidson ( 1975 ) would even maintain that this requires that they have mastery of a language ; that it is wrong even to think in terms of quasi-beliefs or proto-beliefs when trying to explain even quite complex behaviour of languageless creatures . |
| 8 | But does not this suggest that we have only to learn the same lesson over again ? |
| 9 | This meant that they had now gained a tremendous advantage over the reptiles , even causing the extinction of many of them . |
| 10 | This meant that they had often moved to their present jobs away from their previous connections of kin and friends . |
| 11 | If there had been only two men holding Alison in the room , this meant that they 'd left her unguarded and she 'd be able to slip away . |
| 12 | This meant that we had to find somewhere I could manage on my own and that was centrally located , because I could not walk far . |
| 13 | This meant that you had to type everything , including the definitions for forms and reports , making dBFast more primitive in this aspect even than dBASE III Plus ! |
| 14 | This meant that I had a variety of other ‘ close ones ’ to look after me , and a rota was instituted . |
| 15 | This meant that I had , from the beginning , to spend a lot of time with my family while Dawn was learning to sit on my fist . |
| 16 | I heard no more on the subject ; and if this meant that I had failed to persuade Eliot to devote precious time to reading the book , I was more relieved than otherwise . |
| 17 | Joseph Robinson was aware of what was good for business but he was also a man who prided himself on his love of sport : this meant that he had a responsibility to knowledge and experience . |
| 18 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |
| 19 | Essentially , this meant that it had to operate like a company , with a capital structure and a requirement to deliver a return on capital employed , but with the ownership wholly in the hands of the British Government . |
| 20 | Does this mean that she has to invent enemies too ? |
| 21 | This means that we have to specify a number of assumptions , and those we have chosen are intended to conform with the Keynesian view of how the economy works and at the same time to simplify the analysis in a way which enables us to see clearly how DD unemployment can arise . |
| 22 | This means that we have no Scrooge . ’ |
| 23 | This means that we have an innate predisposition to experience and act inter-subjectively , beginning with an awareness of ourselves as social beings with emotions in relationship to other social beings who have the same emotions , interests , and intentions which we can perceive . |
| 24 | ‘ This means that we have been able to deal with the cash position , which earlier in the year had reached crisis proportions . |
| 25 | Among other things , this means that we have to learn to recognise the sounds , spellings and meanings of individual words , and to store this information in such a way that we can call upon it when we encounter spoken or written words . |
| 26 | This means that we have to be doubly careful to ensure that multicultural mathematics does not become a second-class mathematics curriculum for multiracial urban schools . |
| 27 | Unfortunately this means that we have to muck out the stables every day . |
| 28 | This means that we have to respond to customer requirements minute by minute . |
| 29 | And so children have got to leave school able to cope with these changes , and this means that we have to develop self-reliance in them , and general abilities for living . |
| 30 | This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career . |