Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ a judge has not and should not appear to have any responsibility for the institution of prosecutions ; nor has he any power to refuse to allow a prosecution to proceed merely because he considers that , as a matter of policy , it ought not to have been brought . |
| 2 | With such a commitment , McDonnell-Douglas may then decide to pull out if it concludes that the industry is not big enough for three profitable producers . |
| 3 | To find out whether they win that all-important gold run , you 'll have to tune in when the programme is transmitted in September . |
| 4 | To find out whether they win that all-important gold run , you 'll have to tune in when the programme is transmitted in September . |
| 5 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 6 | Sufferers from Chemical Dependency say " I have tried repeatedly to give up but I find that I can not . |
| 7 | With the exception of the use of nominalizations and a change from the past to the present tense , my suggested version is identical to the existing translation ( the present tense is the correct one to use here because it signals that the abstract reports the contents of the paper , not the procedures undertaken in the research — see discussion of tense as a signalling device in academic abstracts , Chapter 4 , section 4.2.4 ) . |
| 8 | Constance wanted to run home but she knew that she could n't leave her bike . |
| 9 | But Labour councillor Tom Chipperfield said : ‘ This is bound to cost more if you think that more old people will choose to remain in their own homes . |
| 10 | When George saw that Curley was attacking Lennie , George allowed Lennie to fight back because he knew that he could not do everything for Lennie . |
| 11 | I originally bought it because it was easy to carry around and I figured that it would make a nice practice guitar . |
| 12 | We might begin to think so if we reflected that in parlour games the rules never change , and then noticed that this year the most accomplished of our poets in their forties published , sixty years after Pound 's Lustra and Eliot 's Prufrock , an ambitious poem in the shape of fifteen interlinked pentameter sonnets . |
| 13 | Maria jeered caustically , driven partly by masochism but also by a need to lash out as she realised that in addition to all the other contemptible things he believed of her , he was now also convinced that she was a liar . |
| 14 | Just think how she 's going to feel now when she knows that her own sister is having a relationship with the man who left her . ’ |