Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is my do it yourself manual , that I just learned by trial and error . |
| 2 | Nor that I thereby hope for immortality : |
| 3 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 4 | I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity . |
| 5 | Yes , I 've got a guy in , well I 've got a couple of people on the shift , and er , the more you give them to do , they just love it , but the thing about it is , I think the mistake that I certainly make from time to time , is the more you give them to do , you 've sort of erm , taken something from somebody else , and then it , it 's trying to keep that erm , trying to keep that more level , and fairness to everybody . |
| 6 | Harriet pushed back the cuff of her ski jacket and glanced at her watch — the clear faced leather-strapped Patek Philippe man 's watch that she always wore in preference to the elegant Cartier her father had given her , unless of course circumstances forced her into an evening gown . |
| 7 | In December nineteen eighty seven she was transferred from intensive care to a main ward , but it was not until February nineteen eighty eight that she fully emerged from coma . |
| 8 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 9 | What is clear is that she rapidly took in hand the Communist Party cells in the various academic bodies to which she was attached . |
| 10 | Erm , we were consulted by the A C C as it were , between committees and had to respond on proposals for giving individual local authorities wider discretions in paying compensation to their employees , erm , the issue here actually summarised quite well in the digest that you already looked at Paper C. The relevant which , at one of which was that the A C C sought powers for local authorities to have a discretione a discretion to award up to an extra , up to fifty two weeks pay in addition to existing statutory requirements . |
| 11 | Well the actual State er the statutory sick pay is fifty six pounds ten pence per week erm it is no more than that but I would be interested to see the , the leaflet that you actually got from work . |
| 12 | And the worst thing is she was trying to tell a coloured person that there was n't any prejudice , and that you only come to school to learn about the European way of life . |
| 13 | Many girls said to me that you never recover from anorexia or bulimia or compulsive eating , but having suffered from all three for over seven years , I can say very strongly that this need not be true . |
| 14 | Long-term goals are those that you realistically achieve with patient , thoughtful and careful training . |
| 15 | Indeed it may well be that a claim for contribution in respect of exemplary damages is not within section 1(1) on the facts of this case , so that one never gets to section 2 in relation to such a claim . |
| 16 | Moreover , in the humanities and much professional and social science literature , titles are by no means the precise description of the subject matter that one usually expects in Nature ; in a notorious example , an article on information retrieval appeared in the Library Association Record entitled " How golden is your retriever ? " — an article which would greatly puzzle dog fanciers who had turned to the computer for search along these simple lines . |
| 17 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 18 | We do not always realise what is at the root of our original fears , or that we habitually cope with conflict in this way at all . |
| 19 | Because of the reduction in the cases of cryptosporidiosis , we are able to withdraw the notice that we previously given in respect of boiling water . |
| 20 | They sat down to a celebration champagne lunch with Dai Davies , the farm manager , and set about opening the heaps of telegrams and congratulatory letters ‘ so that we really felt on top of the world ’ . |
| 21 | It is to these complex processes that we now turn in Chapter 3 . |
| 22 | But these studies have had their critics , and it is to some of the key criticisms of them that we now turn in chapter 7 . |
| 23 | It 's possible that the increased understanding that we now have of miocenia gravis will help us to understand more about diseases such as multiple sclerosis which are , unhappily , much more common than miocenia gravis . |
| 24 | The knowledge that we now have about fertilization and development of the human ovum speaks to us of the miracle of our existence . |
| 25 | Until we do , I would suggest , and it 's not just about until we do , then , I do n't think we 're going to make really serious dint with the number of children that we now have in care . |
| 26 | If someone holds the common belief that we only grow through pain and suffering , for example , then they are likely to create traumatic experiences at a fairly steady pace . |
| 27 | The kind of attention that we usually associate with love or hate , and at the same time an acute awareness of limits , of closed worlds , of helplessness , of traps of unsatisfiable longing — the sort of awareness that we associate rather with pity or fear . |
| 28 | So what about the things that we occasionally hear of colour shifts and so on — is that relevant to what we 're talking about at the moment ? |
| 29 | The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ . |
| 30 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |