Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't go to the opera primarily to hear the music , you go to be bundled together with people similar to yourself , or people that you think you 're like . |
| 2 | It was n't till the news that night that we realised we had been filmed while doing these taxi service for people . |
| 3 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 4 | It is essential if you are to have a clear mind about each particular job and interview that you keep your applications and all the information relevant to them methodically filed and easily accessible . |
| 5 | Even those who had never met her could tell from her letters and articles that she had something special ; an eye for the kind of colourful details people would remember . |
| 6 | What we need from you is really a specific proposal about the kinds of groups and individuals that you want us to sit down with . |
| 7 | We must of course remember that many English liberals continued to support Napoleon — see Gillray 's cartoon of English liberals incensed by the naval victories of Nelson ; one of these , William Hazlitt , was so amazed at the change in Wordsworth and Coleridge that he accused them , later , of swinging over ‘ as on a pivot , to the unclean side ’ . |
| 8 | She was n't aware of how her voice softened when she said the word ‘ Mother ’ , although she did know that the precepts of morality and etiquette that she remembered her mother spelling out to her were the ones she kept most assiduously . |
| 9 | On the perfectly flat sandy beach little green , red , blue boats , so pretty in shape and colour that they made one think of flowers … |
| 10 | erm I I think that being able to acknowledge for themselves — the adults — for them to be able to acknowledge to themselves that this is a very stressful time , that erm that children may be needing that extra bit of sensitivity erm in terms of how we respond to their behaviour , which may be very erm connected with the general level excitement and and stress that I think we as adults are feeling , and certainly that are being picked up from the media . |
| 11 | Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good ? |
| 12 | If there was anything she could n't cope with herself she would ask Mossy Rooney , a man of such silence and discretion that he found it hard to reveal his own name in case it might incriminate someone . |
| 13 | From the stones and bric-bracs that you throw we can build a fortress capable of withstanding your siege . |
| 14 | He told his mother and father that he found their whole system of religion abhorrent . |
| 15 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 16 | There 's no shortage of ingredients for the blend of feature articles and news that you say you enjoy ; the list of talented and distinguished alumni who are willing to write for the magazine is impressive and the University itself is a rich source of news . |
| 17 | I entreat you both That , being of so young days brought up with him And sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time , so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures , and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean , Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus , That opened lies within our remedy . |
| 18 | It is with regret and concern that I find myself moving to this resolution since the members as members of the European Community want would like to have been possible to travel freely between members states . |
| 19 | At the only time in his life when he would have liked to he was so crushed by doubt and diffidence that he kept his eyes scrupulously trained upon the ground , or the table in front of him , or the wall behind the shoulder of the person concerned . |
| 20 | I was wise in my childishness even then , at the tender age of five , when most children are forever telling their parents and friends that they hate them and they wish they were dead . |
| 21 | In due course we might look closer at that episode with the Gilberd : she admits after much blushing and prevarication that he accused her in the High Street delicatessen of baby-snatching — did it openly , in a loud voice . |
| 22 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 23 | Obviously he assumed that she had picked up some instant Romeo , and it was clear from his tone and expression that he condemned her as cheap and shallow . |
| 24 | Children after the age of 2 are often so keen to prove their own independence and ability that they feel they know much better than their parents and so argue or ignore parents ' normal requests . |
| 25 | It was at university under the tutelage of Maurice Cowling and others that he changed his political views and became a believer in Friedmanite economics . |
| 26 | Denis could imagine Hardy telling the others in the unit about Hurley 's old man , such a reliable , dependable , loyal , Irish subject of King and country that he answered His Britannic Majesty 's call to arms and fought across the seas under the British Crown for the rights of small nations ! |
| 27 | Consider too the circumstances of Jane Austen , whose novels breathe such grace and balance that we assume she wrote with no distractions : |
| 28 | Now we have video , a complex technology which is so automated and fool-proofed that it enables anyone , whether technically minded or not , to record moving pictures to a standard which can be very high indeed . |
| 29 | By the end of the year the country had become a republic and the king was on trial for his life ; the Girondins were losing their command of the situation , and some critics have seen Wordsworth 's departure from the scene at this point as evidence that he foresaw their fall from power ( which took place in the summer of 1793 ) . |