Example sentences of "that [det] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So valuable is it that some scientists regard it as a scent and as soon as they detect it , they know that they are on the right track . |
| 2 | By the late 1980s , Brazilian inflation had created such a thriving ( and openly tolerated ) black market in foreign currency that some multinationals found it worthwhile to exceed the 12 per cent limit . |
| 3 | The appointment of Valuev was not quite the retrograde step that some contemporaries thought it to be . |
| 4 | Going back to those first commands and prohibitions on which ( among other things ) conscience is founded , it is apparent that some babies heed them more readily and consistently than others , and that some parents convey them more effectively than others . |
| 5 | The point is that some parents do it habitually . |
| 6 | It was to this that some judges turned their attention . |
| 7 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 8 | The Brazilian complained that some team-mates shunned him and criticised him behind his back , with Soren Lerby and Kieft the chief culprits . |
| 9 | Again , this is a complex notion in itself , so it is hardly surprising that some respondents found it difficult to reply to the questions : Has the conceptual map of your subject changed much in the last decade ? |
| 10 | ‘ And you say that some others protected you ? ’ |
| 11 | We had some more Marshalls that some friends lent us and maybe a Roland JC120 — I do n't know whether those ever made it to the final edit , though . ’ |
| 12 | I know that some ladies think it so romantic , the meeting on the moors with Heathcliffe and everything . |
| 13 | The fighting has so disrupted the country that some observers believe it may divide between north and south along ethnic lines , or into a patchwork of Islamic fiefdoms controlled by the Mujahideen tribal warlords . |
| 14 | But most rock is false in one way or another : you have to accept that some bands fake it better than others , and Ugly Kid Joe fake it like champions . |
| 15 | This may be due to the poor quality of the preaching or it may be due to the fact that some Christians have their own interpretation of the dominical saying , ‘ Except ye be as little children ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven ’ . |
| 16 | An indifferent speller will know that some words cause him difficulty , and will ask for them ; but he will also think he is spelling some words correctly that he is , in fact , getting wrong . |
| 17 | Going back to those first commands and prohibitions on which ( among other things ) conscience is founded , it is apparent that some babies heed them more readily and consistently than others , and that some parents convey them more effectively than others . |
| 18 | But to argue that such developments marked anything more than a beginning would be to over-estimate the significance of what was done . |
| 19 | They make adequate monitoring of children 's learning a particularly demanding task and children themselves may find that such arrangements reduce their opportunities for the quiet , concentrated study required by the reading and writing activities which dominate their curriculum . |
| 20 | Nor could they predict the age of marriage at the outset of their careers , and there is no doubt truth in the employers " point that such expectations coloured their attitude to work . |
| 21 | Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants . |
| 22 | More and more , people are learning that these laws grant them rights and privileges unknown before the creation of the European Community . |
| 23 | Not everyone accepts the ‘ received knowledge ’ that TNCs are good at training managers , and that these managers spread their know-how throughout Third World host societies . |
| 24 | You only have to read what women in emerging feminist groups and movements are writing , to see that these patterns repeat themselves time and again . |
| 25 | I shall suggest that these attempts to find what I call compensatory factors not only fail to be counterbalances , but also represent the undoing of Christology . |
| 26 | While analogous , in this sense , to an epileptic seizure , there is no evidence that these jerks have anything else in common with epilepsy . |
| 27 | The East Europeans complain that these accords penalise them just where they have a competitive advantage — in textile , steel and meat exports . |
| 28 | Investors , customers and creditors can thus rest assured that these rules apply whatever the location of the business transaction in question , provided only that the companies concerned are incorporated in the EC . |
| 29 | Individualists who deny that these claims explain anything at all are , in effect , simply reasserting the hegemony of the interest from which individualism draws its life , while holists are pursuing their own concern with the constraining power of society . |
| 30 | Indeed it would seem that these paintings undercut their initial didacticism and that order is evoked primarily to bring it into question . |