Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider each impasse that you meet as a stepping stone along the path to eventual happiness and fulfilment . |
| 2 | ’ I shouted merrily , beginning to experience an ache somewhere near my bladder that I sometimes get when things are going particluarly badly and I ca n't see any way out . |
| 3 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
| 4 | They not infrequently turn for some answers to the religion that they may have been introduced to in the past but have long since rejected . |
| 5 | Sometimes it is argued that even if researchers do not really believe in the religion that they are studying , they will get more information if they pretend to do so — if , in other words , they use covert , rather than overt , methods of investigation . |
| 6 | As has been suggested , it was particularly the perceived threat to the importance of organised religion that they represented which galvanized Mrs Whitehouse and others into action . |
| 7 | Behind his hostility lay a conviction that the Roman Church represented a corruption of an earlier , undefiled religion that he associated with the Egyptians . |
| 8 | Sometimes I go out and pick up strange men in clubs because that seems to fit the self-image that I 've adopted — I do n't know if that makes sense . |
| 9 | It was such a childish action that they all laughed again before he said , while striking a pose , ‘ You have a lot to learn Mr Farrier . ’ |
| 10 | However , I would disagree most strongly with the suggestions for future action that they draw from their results . |
| 11 | So eager were the Highlanders to be in action that they charged forward prematurely , to be swept by further fire from the hated artillery as well as by musket shots from the opposing infantry and from a detachment under the 18-year-old [ later Major-General ] James Wolfe , posted on the royal left flank , which took them in enfilade . |
| 12 | Critics argue that because of the control of information officials are in a position to slant their recommendations to one course of action that they prefer rather than one they do not prefer . |
| 13 | It is likely in any organisation that individuals will have different opinions , there will be personality clashes and there may well be conflicts of interest where an individual is required to pursue a particular course of action that they can not , in all conscience , perform . |
| 14 | The report published by the Indonesian Government and the action that they subsequently took — for example , against certain military commanders involved in the incident — show that they are not concerned simply with a cover-up . |
| 15 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 16 | Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves . |
| 17 | In short any action that we or you take will have to be in accordance with current government policy . ’ |
| 18 | It is to this private right of action that we now turn . |
| 19 | I would suggest that is the action that we take . |
| 20 | We will just , let's , let's threaten him that , that might be a course of action that we 're gon na have to re we will have , we will have |
| 21 | The churn rate is now down to eleven percent , the result of positive action that we 've taken there and we expect to add a million homes during this year and the cable audience I am pleased to say is growing still very very slowly er but that should help as well . |
| 22 | So I hope that you will agree or confirm the action that we 've taken in expressing those sorts of views . |
| 23 | Erm , in the point that was raised from the London region , talking about resources in dealing with er regional health and safety officers and their time , part of the er document itself , is looking at consultation , so that the resource implications and the necessary action that we have to take in identifying priorities , deals with those things and those things are now opened up to discussion , er by accepting the report , and we 'll be looking at that over this next year . |
| 24 | Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves . |
| 25 | Now , is it the intention of the people who asked us to take this action that we should just boycott Nestles products , or we should do the whole range of the conglomerate that owns all these people like Rowntrees and Cross and Blackwell , and many other companies as well . |
| 26 | He has not got the freedom of action that I have . |
| 27 | refrain from taking some action that I am currently taking ? |
| 28 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 29 | If the course of action that I am suggesting and ind which is indeed consistent with the course of action I have been suggesting throughout this enquiry is to work , then I need I would suggest tomorrow is probably the absolute latest for me to get anything from you , and to give the Councils any opportunity whatsoever to make any reply to them . |
| 30 | It read : ‘ I ask you to consider that the effects of the legal action that I undertook in the Berne district court concerning my non-participation in the European Cup this year are null and void . |