Example sentences of "[conj] [that] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 2 | The general conclusion which we have reached is that there is no clear evidence in any of the figures we have examined that the abolition of capital punishment has led to an increase in the homicide rate , or that its reintroduction has led to a fall . |
| 3 | She would refuse to allow that the matter was serious , or that its consequences could affect her profoundly . |
| 4 | Few , however , would dispute either the inevitability of the process or that its effect on the 320 million European citizens will be real and lasting . |
| 5 | Men of science in the nineteenth century were increasingly becoming specialists ; but the eminent were often interested in other things as well , and hoped that these were not irrelevant to their science , or that its methods were foreign to them . |
| 6 | The UK 's relative lack of success in exploiting innovative technology is not , therefore , because the country 's engineers and scientists lack good innovative ideas or that its R&D is not of the highest quality . |
| 7 | This is of course not possible , and we should rather conclude that any intermediate , formed by the initial attack of Cl - on , must have no significant absorption in the spectral range studied , or that its concentration is never so great that it contributes significantly to the spectrum . |
| 8 | Some archivists/records managers have shown concern over the loss of correspondence between historically important people ; others that e-mail encourages ‘ garbage ’ or that its tenor discourages sufficient development of ideas between contributors . |
| 9 | She hated it , and she was afraid of it , because she doubted her power to escape ; even after two years in London , she still thought that her brain might go or that her nerve might snap , and that she would be compelled to return , feebly , defeated , to her mother 's house . |
| 10 | … At the same time it is right to say that in her evidence … she repudiates the notion that any influence was exerted or any pressure put upon her , or that her husband made any misrepresentation to her . |
| 11 | She could have been anywhere between twenty-five and forty , but Jezrael did n't care that her boss was n't wearing plastiface or that her hazel eyes looked like they might brim with mirth . |
| 12 | She 'd never even been in love , she thought wistfully , was beginning to think herself incapable of the emotion , or that her standards were too high — or impossible . |
| 13 | Critical examination by the most reliable of tests and measurements , usually showed that they had little if any action greater than that of placebos , or that their effects on performance were deleterious rather than beneficial . |
| 14 | There may develop a fear that they are uniquely abnormal or that their sexual practices are uniquely unnatural . |
| 15 | It is far better and essentially less embarrassing for such education to be given at school than within the family , even if it could be certain that parents would give it or that their children would listen . |
| 16 | ‘ Any suggestion that immigrants are being admitted on sufferance only , or that their range of choices , for example about where they live , is bring restricted , is likely to reinforce the unsettling effects of the move to a new environment which they will be making . ’ |
| 17 | This contempt derives from the 1950s and 1960s , when some senior educationalists committed themselves to fashionable ideas about teaching English : that children would learn to read naturally without the help of formal instruction , or that their writing should be the product not of craft but of free expression . |
| 18 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 19 | There would be others on the clerical staff who were always late , always pleading that the school bus had n't turned up , or that their dog had to be walked . |
| 20 | Resentment was always present when parents felt either that there was a lack of openness or frankness on the part of the professionals or administrators , or that they were being coerced , or that their concern for and about their child was being called into question . |
| 21 | The large number of foot-soldiers suggests either that they were mercenaries , or that their presence was accounted for by a surviving obligation under the ban . |
| 22 | So you believe either that Americans are prone to think conspiratorially or that their government has given them a lot of unbelievable explanations for incredible conduct . |
| 23 | To imagine other worlds was to imagine that Christ might have died and been resurrected more than once , or that their inhabitants might be restored to eternal life without a knowledge of the Son of God . |
| 24 | The most impressive of the remains are the tiny stone coffins on the ruined floor of the chapel which indicate that either the Knights Templars were very small men or that their bones were broken after death and they were buried with their limbs beneath them . |
| 25 | Monetarist opponents of these views point out that the fact that industries in certain regions are unprofitable is evidence enough of either the fact that such industries are not in line with modern production methods or with demands in the international market ; or that their location imposes additional costs on production compared with similar industries elsewhere in the country ; or both factors may apply . |
| 26 | Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is . |
| 27 | Using the ‘ doctrine of signatures ’ — ‘ that many natural maladies carry their cures along with them , or that their remedies lie not far from their causes ’ — Stone had turned his attention to the willow , which ‘ delights in a moist or wet soil , where agues chiefly abound ’ . |
| 28 | Take-up is lower among medium-sized companies ‘ perhaps because they feel their profile is too low to attract many claims or that their shareholding is so tightly controlled they wo n't come up against too many disgruntled shareholders who are the main source of claim in this country . ’ |
| 29 | Supraventricular extrasystoles , on the other hand , occur with increasing frequency throughout life , but there is no evidence of an association with ischaemic heart disease or that their presence is of prognostic importance . |
| 30 | Supraventricular extrasystoles occur with increasing frequency throughout life , but there is no evidence of an association with ischaemic heart disease or that their presence is of prognostic importance . |