Example sentences of "[conj] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 2 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 3 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 4 | If a work is bigger than a man , he wrote , it can mean either that it is trying to surpass man or that it is not afraid of being looked at . |
| 5 | If you feel that you will be unable to take out a loan in this way or that it will cause you financial hardship , you can apply to the Social Services Department for help . |
| 6 | One can then choose to say either that it constitutes the difference by virtue of having a particular internal ‘ feel ’ associated with it , or that it is itself the difference , simpliciter . |
| 7 | It is this : saying that the character of ‘ mental representations ’ ( beliefs and imaginings , for example ) can be understood only in terms of a history of activity , or that it is the subject 's conception of himself as active in relation to the world which gives these ‘ representations ’ their ‘ content ’ or ‘ semantics ’ ( I hope to have shown something like this ) is simply irrelevant to the mind-body problem . |
| 8 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 9 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 10 | The two criticisms commonly levelled at Prince are that a particular song is ‘ overdone ’ or that it 's ‘ unrealized ’ . |
| 11 | Thirdly , it is doubtful whether the General Strike could be regarded as the watershed in British labour history , which it is sometimes claimed to be , or that it changed in any significant form the pattern of industrial relations . |
| 12 | We shall not deceive the people by saying the task of National Reconstruction is easy , or that it can be accomplished in a twelve month [ period ] . |
| 13 | Those were his heroes , and you can look at it like thy had a defeatist attitude or were grotesquely self-indulgent — or that it enabled them to have the art . |
| 14 | Most studies consider only social behaviour in the herd , or readily observed facts , such as that the horse is easily frightened , or that it will work better if it is rewarded rather than punished . |
| 15 | Whether this means that life originated just once , or that it originated many times , each origin acquiring a different code , but that one origin gave rise to more successful competitors , we do not know . |
| 16 | Or that it describes a daily shudder of one whole millimetre in all directions as the marble expands and contracts under the Italian sun . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're not guaranteeing that we will award the licence , or that it will be a success — it 's a commercial risk , ’ said Mr David Glencross , ITC director general . |
| 18 | Politicians must never make the mistake of thinking the state must always know best , or that it is entitled to the lion 's share of people 's money . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the federalists try to pretend that this is not happening , or that it will not matter . |
| 20 | No wonder that the heads of Deutsche Bank or Dresdener Bank today have the Chancellor 's ear' : or that it is impossible to acquire German banks . |
| 21 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 22 | It is possible to argue either that the community charge has failed its first test as a device to improve the accountability of local government or that it has not really been tested at all . |
| 23 | But they do not prove that NICRA was a front for the preparation of such a campaign or that it was reasonable or wise to treat it as such . |
| 24 | Although the civil rights strategy could not have been adopted by republicans without the approval of the leadership of the IRA — and Roy Johnston stressed the importance of its involvement in the Maghera meeting of 1966 — — this does not mean that the army council initiated the setting up of NICRA or that it paid any detailed attention to the work being done by republicans within the association . |
| 25 | The Administrative Body may pass a resolution that it will not accept the ministry of a woman as a priest in the cathedral , or that it will not accept a woman as dean , or both . |
| 26 | your employer has broken your contract ; and 2. that action was so fundamental as to justify your ending the contract ( or that it was ‘ the last straw ’ ) ; and that |
| 27 | But I do n't think we had it or that it would have made any difference if we had . ’ |
| 28 | Such a detailed description of the Charing Cross collective bureau is not intended to imply recommendation of a collective structure or that it is without problems . |
| 29 | On balance , studies have found no indication of harmful physical effects ; no evidence that television introduces a harmful amount of aggression , violence or fear into an already normal child or that it turns an undisturbed child into a disturbed one or a non-delinquent child into a delinquent . |
| 30 | Homoeopathy is not the only practice that uses the concepts presented here and no one of repute , of whom I am aware , would claim that Homoeopathy has all the answers or that it will suit everyone . |