Example sentences of "and [verb] that what " in BNC.
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| 1 | His general note was one of chiding MacDonald for the weakness of his control over his own extremists and suggesting that what the country needed was men of practical experience , breadth of view and lack of dogmatic commitment . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the 1980s a group of community activists , trade unionists , community educators , peace workers and feminists met and agreed that what was needed was a reappraisal of previous efforts in the field , a conscious effort to determine their own social and political position and to choose an educational model or approach which reflected the latter . |
| 3 | He is my oldest friend , and it was his wedding , but he was looking mogadonic with self-satisfaction , so I purloined the camera and announced that what the wedding album needed were a few art shots . |
| 4 | This ancient puzzle has prompted some philosophers to draw a distinction between " being " and actual existence , and to claim that what is being talked about in such cases has being , even though it does not exist in reality . |
| 5 | After another brief pause , the speaker continues , using and to indicate that what she is going to say is connected to what she has just said . |
| 6 | These results are not too surprising given the research findings discussed in the previous chapter and suggest that what is inherited as vulnerability to psychosis forms a broad set of dispositions that include both temperamental and cognitive features . |
| 7 | Hey ( 1976 ) for example examines the practice of specialists ( by client group ) and concludes that what many cite as their distinctive attribute is the element of knowledge . |
| 8 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 9 | He returned to the living-room and found that what he had taken to be a cupboard door , in fact gave access by a flight of stairs to the shop . |
| 10 | Squaring her shoulders and remembering that what lay ahead was , after all , a job interview , she followed Dr Russell up the long flight of steps at the front of the house and through a wooden latticework door on to a cool veranda where outdoor furniture splashed with warm tropical colours was invitingly arranged . |
| 11 | Now we have to break out from this story of the individual and imagine that what we have described is general . |
| 12 | District councillor S. Carmedy immediately sprang to his feet and proclaimed that what I had said was untrue . |
| 13 | And Jerome says that on realizing what he had done , and believing that what he had done was murder , he fled , back here into hiding . |
| 14 | He considers himself an expert on the subject now and confirms that what Horatia says is entirely possible . " |
| 15 | They would have failed to recognize and acknowledge that what we have on the basis of sense-experience is worth having , and worthy of the name of knowledge . |
| 16 | Gandhi actually recognizes the problem of relativity and acknowledges that what may be truth for one may be untruth for another . |
| 17 | I consulted the programme and discovered that what I was regarding was the rose garden of an English country house , circa 1922 . |
| 18 | On the other hand , providing a false diagnosis adds to patients ' disability , reinforces maladaptive behaviour , and ensures that what might have been a brief illness becomes refractory to treatment . |
| 19 | and were very happy with their computerised telephone , and decided that what Hallery House needed next was a front of house package which would be equally helpful to both themselves and their guests , and take the hard work out of record keeping and marketing . |
| 20 | The showmen hated those whom the Cinematograph Year Book always described as ‘ the Busybodies and Meddlers ’ and thought of their demands in terms of what the Bioscope referred to as ‘ Prussianism ’ but in order to keep control of their own industry the showmen accepted many of the standards of middle-class taste and insisted that what they would provide would be for the most part family entertainment . |
| 21 | Berwicke like many leading women repealers , found the work disturbing and felt that what was needed was a revival of the repealers ' message of anti-statism and personal liberty . |
| 22 | She remembered Havvie 's last words when he had left her that afternoon , and knew that what he had said was true . |
| 23 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 24 | you do not mind my taking this method of answering your letter and I hope that you , I did not put you to too much trouble to locate a recorder to listen to the tape , I am just too lazy to write it all down and think that what I have to say I can put it better in words than what I can on paper , I 'll let you do that part . |
| 25 | What they have to do , though , is to draw a line under their hard training up to April 7 , two weeks before the race , and admit that what 's done is done . |
| 26 | Perhaps it 's that he 's made me look at myself and see that what I believe is old and stuffy . |