Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many airlines are so confused or battered that they no longer have anything resembling a clear business strategy . |
| 2 | Conservative Members say that they do not wish to pursue people or insist that their will should be enforced . |
| 3 | When something goes wrong , I find the quickest way to make matters worse is to launch in with my own fury , or insist that they repair the damage MY way . |
| 4 | Perhaps he was too young to assume the purple , in which case the Senate would either appoint a Regent ( who usually proclaimed himself emperor and murdered his young rival ) or declare that , owing to an emergency ( the impending bankruptcy of the empire , for example , or yet another insurrection in Dacia ) , the throne would pass to a full-grown man . |
| 5 | In the next scene Macbeth , speaking alone and with no need to deceive anyone ( given the convention in Elizabethan drama that what characters say in soliloquy is true ) , admits the evil of their ‘ deep intent ’ : Duncan is ‘ clear ’ , really has that freedom from guilt or stain that his wife had urged Macbeth to assume : in a sense he tries to do so here , in his defence of Duncan 's right to be treated with love and respect , and in his invocation of ‘ pity ’ , that constant test of humanity in Shakespeare . |
| 6 | The Western powers and Japan , who had long been attempting to secure rights and interests in China , were now faced with a series of regimes too weak to resist some of their demands , or to see that any concessions were adhered to . |
| 7 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 8 | Without this information , the speechreader may appear to interrupt rudely or think that something is going on that he is missing . |
| 9 | The former is loam , that is top-soil taken from a meadow and then sterilised ; the other is the semi-decayed remains of sedges or mosses that are preserved from total decomposition in peat bogs by a blanket of water and acidity . |
| 10 | With the chance of winning these prizes it 's well worth booking a professional who is participating in the awards or suggesting that the photographer of your choice does so . |
| 11 | It was concluded that the media had no business either relaying bad news about government and party policies and activities or suggesting that alternative measures might be better . |
| 12 | If I showed the slightest sign of taking sides about Bodyline , or suggesting that it was a threat to cricket , my reports would be censored and I would probably be replaced . |
| 13 | Occupations tend to be upgraded in status , for example , by implying possession of a special skill or suggesting that the work is in a supervisory capacity . |
| 14 | Lydia had not imagined or expected that Betty would touch the pheasant . |
| 15 | On the down side , domestic broadcasters decided to ban any songs or plays that could cause offence . |
| 16 | Of course , so few are aware of his background and he being , shall we say , a little unorthodox in his dealings with people , never seems to think of it or to realize that in some circles it might be of — of help to him . |
| 17 | Is ‘ The sea appears to a viewer to be the same colour all over ’ simply an alternative way of saying ‘ The viewer is of the opinion that ( or judges that , or thinks that ) the sea is the same colour all over ? ’ |
| 18 | Discuss the importance of the UP to urban and inner cities community development initiatives with your MP and any other MP or Peer that you may have contact with and ask them to raise these issues with government . |
| 19 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 20 | No more scrabbling for notepads or realising that you 've left your diary on your secretary 's desk . |
| 21 | The leitmotif of Coetzee 's book , as suggested by his title , is that the organizations he has studied faced an ongoing dilemma : whether to function as adjuncts of the Conservative party or to claim that their aims were ‘ national ’ and therefore ‘ above party ’ . |
| 22 | It is also illegal for manufacturers to give their product a misleading name , or to claim that it is made of a particular ingredient which in fact makes up a very small proportion of the product . |
| 23 | Britain grinds out almost five million tonnes of hazardous waste each year , of which about 63,000 tonnes are so difficult to store or treat that they are burnt at high temperatures here in Gwent or at one of three other centres : Ellesmere Port ; Fawley , near Southampton ; and the unfortunately named Killamarsh , near Sheffield . |
| 24 | It is often guilt or fear that stops us from telling the truth . |
| 25 | You do not feel inhibited because you have n't prepared adequately or fear that other people might catch you out or ridicule you . |
| 26 | Even if you are resorting to it out of nervousness or fear that you have bad breath it will create a very negative impression on the interviewer . |
| 27 | If you are one of them , do not worry , or fear that you will be handicapped as a helper and comforter . |
| 28 | A sign of the recession or fear that these impressionable young booksellers might be contaminated by their publishing counterparts in some way ? |
| 29 | I do n't know if it 's sex , or fear that I 'm up to some trick . |
| 30 | There 's no way that a farrier can shoe a horse that is so angry or frightened that it is rearing and leaping all over the place . |