Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , people who at some time in the future will require foreign currency ( people such as importers , holiday makers , or those thinking of investing abroad or in foreign securities ) may prefer to wait before exchanging pounds into the relevant foreign currencies if they believe that the sterling price of these currencies is likely to fall ( the pound is likely to appreciate ) . |
| 2 | The headteacher , a kind and progressive woman , remarks that Michael is confused between masculine and feminine roles and she suspects that he has ‘ feminine genes ’ . |
| 3 | Brian May is one of my favourite guitarists and I found that I could really relate to his window idea . |
| 4 | Most conductors of my generation have to go through different experiences before we understand that it 's not the main thing in the world to conduct all American orchestras . |
| 5 | Robin Gurdon , who met them at army headquarters , was to guide the party through the southernmost part of the British lines as they hoped that by skirting the edge of the depression , they would avoid any main concentrations of German troops . |
| 6 | Joe can not be a ‘ gentleman ’ because the word has social connections and we know that Joe will never be a gentleman of the social kind . |
| 7 | So far we have considered the development of marriage blueprints in a way which does not take account of sexual differences and which assumes that learning takes place in the context of a two-person relationship , principally between a child and one or other of his parents . |
| 8 | To separate their individual styles they split those evenings into consecutive 1520 minute slots and they retain that format for the tour . |
| 9 | And I think erm the article itself erm s says in , in the , the first part it , it seems to be written in a very sort of erm very pro-peasant style , it 's like a justification of things that are happening , he s says that the reasons for the , the peasant movement were the exact opposite of what the gentry in Hankow and Changchun were saying erm that the , that the Party , that the revolutionary authorities had , had taken wrong measures because they thought that the reasons for these movements were , were otherwise and these we they were considered detrimental so they had to change these , these er original wrong meas measures to benefit the future of the revolution . |
| 10 | Erm but I think it 's we 've looked at historical trends and you find that the quality newspapers , the up-market newspapers , they 're actually not particularly price sensitive . |
| 11 | She knew they had different fathers and she knew that in each case there was only a certain number of possibilities , but beyond that all was obscure . |
| 12 | But on the other hand , the bibliography for the Tate catalogue required that I look back at a lot of old notices and I find that my perception was not at all valid . |
| 13 | … one can not begin to understand a number of contemporary English novelists unless one realises that to them Joyce 's way is at best a cul-de-sac . |
| 14 | After all , saying ‘ please ’ and ‘ thank you ’ , offering a helping hand , giving a seat to an elderly or disabled person , are the outward and visible signs that we feel that other people and their rights matter . |
| 15 | In addition , I had hoped to put in motion programmes in 3 separate areas and I hope that they still may be started in the not too distant future . |
| 16 | Hopefully as we improve our business , we may indeed see TV advertising in future years and we hope that we will become as well known as IBM , 3M or ICI . ’ |
| 17 | Maxwell 's theory clashed with these generally accepted assumptions because it predicted that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon and also predicted , as was to be realized later , that fluctuating currents should emit a new kind of radiation , radio waves , travelling at a finite velocity through empty space . |
| 18 | Superficially it resembles a shield boss with three fixing holes but I thought that they were heavier and cast . |
| 19 | All outputs along the same channel always appear together in the minimal acceptances because we assume that the environment , like occam processes , does not have the power of selective input on a channel . |
| 20 | These is a degree of confusion about this complex and rapidly changing area and the scope of these two quite distinct developments and we hope that the information provided will contribute towards clarification . |
| 21 | Even the populists raised similar issues but they discovered that there was greater mileage in personal attacks on the individuals involved in planning . |
| 22 | Check that all airbricks are kept clear , and put in extra ones if you suspect that underfloor ventilation is not adequate — there should be one every 1.8m along all outside walls . |
| 23 | Indeed , some went so far as to ‘ play dumb ’ when they were with male students because they knew that the men did n't like clever women . |
| 24 | Alright , so he looks to the past for his moral inspirations and he imagines that Nick is looking to the future . |
| 25 | Next , I get one of those high-speed electric drills and I couple that up to the end of the cable in such a way that when the drill turns , it turns the cable backwards . |
| 26 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 27 | I mean , they are very basic things but I think that we really do n't acknowledge they are people who should be respected along with the rest of us . ’ |
| 28 | I think everyone says the three-day week produced some remarkable results and I think that side of things continues to be run very well indeed . |
| 29 | The failure to resolve Germany 's future added to Europe 's economic problems and it seemed that Communists in France and Italy might exploit the consequent social discontent in order to seize power . |
| 30 | Trying an idea out on somebody is a very good way of exposing flaws in your argument , and in fact if we look at the present energy debate , so much of it is concerned with interpretation which one would have thought , taking a simple view of science , were just factual matters that we realize that this discussion of science is perhaps more difficult than people would imagine , so there is opportunity in the course to try and help students to become more fluent in scientific discussion , discussion of scientific ideas between themselves , and of their own ideas about science . |