Example sentences of "[conj] [that] [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously , Palin made a point in the commentary about how he was n't pretending that he was on his own or that there were not gruff acolytes kneeling at his feet as he spoke . |
| 2 | You do not need all this to establish that a man is drunk or that there is mayhem when he is in charge of a class . |
| 3 | Admirers claim that the Thatcher governments have vanquished much conventional wisdom of the 1970s , such as the idea that the British were ‘ ungovernable ’ , that the unions ran the country , or that there was a ‘ British disease ’ . |
| 4 | Three years later the TUC attitude to black workers , and more specifically black women workers , was shown by its lack of action on such simple and bland recommendations ( from the Camden Council for Community Relations ) as that the trade union movement should press for compulsory language training at work ( ie. in the employer 's time , not after hours ) or co-operate ‘ more positively ’ in agreeing to English classes where the management has taken the initiative , or that there should be ‘ more positive participation in supporting any industrial action taken by minority group workers in their fight to achieve equal opportunity ’ . |
| 5 | We must assume either that Warnie 's memory exaggerated the virulence of her hostility to Jack 's conversion , or that there was some particular thing about it which affected her more than anyone else . |
| 6 | Or that there was no way left of convincing anyone that she was right about that boy . |
| 7 | It is one thing to recognize a small dark moving spot , and quite another to recognize that one 's colleague Dr X is in a bad temper , or that there is a car approaching on the wrong side of the road . |
| 8 | It is possible that the two women are one and the same , or that there is a serial killer on the prowl , but as none of Barbs 's friends or neighbours give a damn where she is , her continuing absence occasions little comment . |
| 9 | Education about the Third World which does not refer to the socio-economic problems of rural Europe can promote a belief that European development has worked and that failure lives elsewhere in the world , or that there is no relationship between the problems of European DRAs and those of the predominantly rural Third World countries . |
| 10 | He can do so in just the way that he believes the totality of appearances can be interpreted without belief in ‘ substances ’ , or that there is no further significance to existence than that it is not a predicate . |
| 11 | Throughout March and April the newspapers carried a plethora of stories suggesting either that there would be a further challenge to Mrs Thatcher when the next leadership election fell due in November , or that there would be strong pressure on her to announce her retirement before then . |
| 12 | I do not wish to argue that one is an act of killing and the other an omission to treat , or that there is active , as opposed to passive , conduct . |
| 13 | It can not be assumed that women over 65 would have had an adequate screening history and therefore can be forgotten , or that there is no point in regular follow-up of older patients . |
| 14 | Supposing the physician can find no tissue damage or that there is an inappropriate relation between objective fact and subjective complaint . |
| 15 | The therapist did not think that Tony was suffering from a psychiatric disorder , or that there was a risk of suicide , or of a further act of self-harm in the near future . |
| 16 | This can mean that the bowels move less frequently , that hard faeces are not easily passed or that there is an increased retention of faeces in the colon ( see pages 74 to 75 ) . |
| 17 | I did not say that the world was in a sorry state , that it contained no dangers or that there was in absence of sinister-looking developments . |
| 18 | When , with colleagues in the Department of Social Administration , I interviewed members of the divorcing population , they argued passionately that divorce was too easy ( or too difficult ) ; that everything was rushed through before they had time to think ( or that it dragged on interminably ) ; and that divorce should be morally neutral ( or that there should be an inquest in which every detail of their spouse 's despicable conduct was exposed to public view ) . |
| 19 | Or that there was a little unpleasantness on the road . |
| 20 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 21 | People seem to think either that a burglary wo n't happen to them , or that there 's nothing they can do to stop a really determined thief . |
| 22 | Or that there is a ‘ real ’ private Gilbert and George , and another fake public persona . |
| 23 | Proof is required that the size , shape or colour are not as prescribed or that there were no ‘ L ’ plates or only one displayed . |
| 24 | I feel a bit silly about it , looking back — I did n't even notice that the aviary had been finished , or that there was a tea chest mounted inside with a large ‘ front door ’ sawn out of it . |
| 25 | Others are not reported because of embarrassment or fear on the part of the victim ( rape , domestic assaults ) , or because he or she thinks that there is little the police can do about it ( vandalism , shoplifting ) , or that the offence is not very serious anyway , or that there is no unwilling victim ( drug abuse , soliciting , under-age sex ) . |
| 26 | We doubted that it was technically possible , or that there would be a niche for such a business , but they proved us to be wrong and that was the beginning of the launch of Tactel , our highly successful family of fibres for leisurewear , the ICI record campaign , and so many more besides . |
| 27 | Oakeshott does not agree with Hart 's views either about the need for a ‘ minimum content of natural law ’ or that there can be a single ultimate rule of recognition in the sense of an unconditional and unquestionable norm from which all others derive their authority . |
| 28 | None of this means that nationalism is not very prominent in world politics today , or that there is less of it than there once was . |
| 29 | Or that there are Gospels other than those in the New Testament , which were more or less arbitrarily excluded from the canon by councils composed of eminently mortal , eminently fallible men . |
| 30 | This may reflect the belief that catalogs of data were more appropriate fur teaching purposes or that there were pressures to shy away from controversial ideas . |