Example sentences of "[conj] that [pron] " 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 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 3 | It is commonplace in the sociology of the police to emphasize how police stations are a ‘ symbolic bureaucracy ’ , to use Jacobs 's telling phrase ( 1969 ) , or that they have , in Goffman 's terminology , front and backstage regions where different sets of rules apply ( see Holdaway 1980 ) . |
| 4 | If we find that when we have stopped it , either things are just as bad ( which is improbable ) or that they are still fairly bad , then indeed it will be easier , scientifically easier , to detect any other causes which may be at work . ’ |
| 5 | This ‘ return to the sources ’ discovers either that such primitive celebrations are entirely divorced from modern sexuality , or that they always concealed a deathly horror . |
| 6 | While tying is not necessarily incompatible with the fundamental economic objectives of aid , it reduces its potential benefit to the extent that goods are over-priced , or that they are less appropriate — and sometimes much less appropriate — for the job . |
| 7 | There is therefore no reason to believe that in such a system these two relatives are equally my mother 's husband or that they both have similar sexual rights over my mother . |
| 8 | In the end , and in spite of prolonged speculation to the contrary , there was never much doubt either that England would be seeded or that they would begin the World Cup in Cagliari . |
| 9 | In the end , and in spite of prolonged speculation to the contrary , there was never much doubt either that England would be seeded or that they would begin the World Cup in Cagliari . |
| 10 | Nobody likes to admit that they entertain very little , or that they rarely enjoy it when they do . |
| 11 | Perhaps he was like the people who think they 're Napoleon , or that they 're in love with the Queen . |
| 12 | The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines . |
| 13 | Some experts maintain that these molluscs were able to swim in the open ocean , or that they were attached to floating seaweed : some such mechanism has to be invoked to explain how these bivalves came into an environment that lacked bottom-living animals . |
| 14 | Both the American and British governments are cloaking these new operations in a shroud of secrecy though it is unlikely any politician has the slightest idea what the two agencies are planning to do or that they even care if laws are broken as they have been in the past . |
| 15 | It may be that they simply see no value in the building or that they are concerned that any use of the building might detract from their estate or business . |
| 16 | The two newslines were the fact that the band all possessed degrees or that they had chosen George Beat ( v. old footballer , as they would say ) . |
| 17 | She had never imagined wearing clothes like this , or that they could make such a difference . |
| 18 | ( For example , they might say that they have a woman deacon in their parish , or that they have chosen a woman — or a man — as their doctor . ) |
| 19 | That is not to say , however , that such moments do not exist or that they do not have a profound and often life-changing effect on the person who experiences them . |
| 20 | However , as stated above , nine out of the 11 in the action sample who said at second interview that they continued to prefer home care gave much more unequivocal answers ; stating not merely that they would not like the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care , or that they would feel guilty about him or her going into residential care ( as did the carers of Miss Wainwright and Mrs Nolan ) , but also that home was where they envisaged and wanted the sufferer to remain . |
| 21 | You can often get them back on track by suggesting that they take turns at riding the tricycle or that they make the Lego building a joint effort . |
| 22 | The violence of these movies is sometimes excused on the ground that they portray violence already existing in society or that they entertain . |
| 23 | Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures . |
| 24 | In the past , it has been assumed that nurses have already developed these skills when leaving school , or that they are acquired whilst providing patient care . |
| 25 | In his obituary in The Stage , the writer pertinently remarked that ‘ People die not so much on account of their age or that they are worn out , but because of the loss of their lifelong associates . ’ |
| 26 | The team says this is not so because administrators dislike them , or that they are hardly aware of them . |
| 27 | The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time . |
| 28 | It is hard , after a lifetime of sharing disappointments and problems with a parent , to find that they are no longer capable of sustaining conversation , that their memory is failing or that they have little interest in things outside their own immediate situation . |
| 29 | It used to be a popular theory that death-feigning animals were somehow self-hypnotised , or that they were thrown into such an acute state of shock by their tormentors that they went into an unconscious , cataleptic state , as though from a fit or seizure . |
| 30 | It may be that they have developed new sensitivities to foods , or that they are becoming chemical-sensitive . |