Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] that [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Ashdown would be better concentrating on the basic issues that are of concern to the electorate rather than perpetually engaging in imagined card games that he thinks he would like to play on Friday morning . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So erm amongst the business property that he has he has this warehouse with |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 . ’ |