Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] that [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts . |
| 2 | So keen are GKR not to be identified with the less ethical and aggressive end of the search market that it maintains it frequently turns down business ; from any other search firm , this statement might be questionable , but GKR 's standing in the market , and the obvious importance of its untarnished reputation in gaining that position , suggests that it is probably the truth . |
| 3 | So erm amongst the business property that he has he has this warehouse with |
| 4 | John has two PhDs but I do n't believe he has This sentence is pragmatically anomalous because it contradicts the standard Quality implicature that one believes what one asserts . |
| 5 | When one has told a friend about a stage performance or some media utterance that one feels he should go to see , one has performed that work to the friend and partly negated his need to see the work for himself . |
| 6 | This explanation is borne out by the remark of one middle-class housewife : ‘ I do n't go about feeling discontented ’ , the implication being that she thinks she might be expected to do so . |
| 7 | Not all of those with a long standing illness report that it restricts their activity . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , even though having angles equal to two right angles is not part of a triangle 's essence , it is because it is a three-sided plane figure that it has them . |
| 9 | None of these expressions implies of itself that God as God suffers as we do , still less , as is suggested in Margaret Spufford 's quotation from The Man on a Donkey , in her book Celebration that He renders Himself ‘ powerless against the free and evil wills of men ’ . |
| 10 | I do n't suppose it 's serious , but he 's so terrified of Blue Ear Disease that he watches them like a hawk . ’ |