Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] that [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nationally , Directors of Social Services have identified that the trends in child care are such now , as to create serious concern that the children 's homes themselves are geared up to the kind of er tasks that now face them . |
| 2 | If Belinda had been a more devious soul , she might have thought to suggest that Deana 's harping on the subject of Dr Russell spoke rather strongly of a crush on her side as well , but Belinda was n't devious , so she simply blushed even more and found on the desk in front of her a diabetic patient 's chart that suddenly needed her urgent attention . |
| 3 | She had also read about old people 's homes that ruthlessly exploited their pensioners : unscrupulous proprietors grabbed all they could squeeze from the social services but gave little back to the residents ; they cut corners on staff , food , laundry , and amenities and added to their profits by pocketing the difference between their sparse expenditures and the sums they actually received . |
| 4 | I think it must be Tod 's questions that eventually put them off . |
| 5 | Recent incidents and events on the environmental stage — beginning , at least in Europe , with the explosion at the Chernobyl reactor — seem to have reawakened that ancient fear of nature 's retribution that so haunted our hunting and gathering ancestors . |
| 6 | For , if there was one aspect of the Fat Controller 's legacy that still troubled me severely it was the sex thing . |