Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We so much take these matters for granted that we forget that these abilities are constitutive of what we mean by ‘ higher education ’ . |
| 2 | An MP was this week accused of scaremongering when he warned that a European ban on tobacco advertising could bring job losses at a Darlington factory . |
| 3 | I was on the point of surrendering when I thought that it would be more dangerous to resume the subject on another occasion ; I also did n't trust my nerve . |
| 4 | Perhaps the charge that attitudinism makes ethics peculiarly irrational is merely a way of saying that it denies that there is such a thing as objective ethical truth . |
| 5 | The importance of context in establishing the boundaries of given and new elements is worth noting because it suggests that analysing written language in terms of given and new is feasible . |
| 6 | I thought that I was gon na have to er , talk about phasing but I think that he 's dealt with that quite adequately but I certainly will be happy answer any questions afterwards if if there are any . |
| 7 | Sir Keith Joseph has recently gone on record as saying that he wished that examiners could be more objective in their assessment of what children know . |
| 8 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 9 | And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening . |
| 10 | As a counter to this strongly argued view , it is worth mentioning that it assumes that ‘ biggest is best ’ and that the potential benefits of synergy will actually accrue . |
| 11 | In November 1989 Secord had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making a false statement to congressional investigators by denying that he knew that funds from the Iran-contra operation had been used to instal a security system at the house of Oliver North . |
| 12 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 13 | I can help the hon. Gentleman by saying that we believe that we are on schedule for the introduction of the council tax in April 1993 . |
| 14 | The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted . |