Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] today " in BNC.

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1 Within the increased roads programme that I announced today — a road programme which will have increased by 50 per cent .
2 For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time .
3 I do not wish in any way to criticise you , and I appreciate that I applied today to ask such a question —
4 There was another one that I consider today was very highly dangerous .
5 Well perhaps we ought to give people a s a a list a piece of paper and a pencil when they come into church one day , and say , Write down all the words that you hear today , or sing today that you do not understand .
6 Your touch of originality will mark all that you do today .
7 Finally , remember that you had to put a considerable amount of effort into learning the skills that you have today .
8 Circumnavigators , explorers , soldiers , sailors , merchants and government officials of past centuries travelled to draw the map of the world that we know today .
9 The oxygen they produced accumulated over the millennia to form the kind of oxygen-rich atmosphere that we know today .
10 The first volcanoes to appear on the surface of the cooling planet erupted on a far greater scale than any that we know today , building entire mountain ranges of lava and ash .
11 The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today .
12 Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application .
13 That er lived in this house and they were the the real grass roots of the old Labour Party , the real socialists , not like the ones that we know today that only pay lip service to it .
14 They evolved further , and eventually perfected the DNA code that we know today .
15 That wider European Community will be a different Community from the one that we know today .
16 Well we think that the D O E would probably be quite pleased with the position that we reached today .
17 ‘ I suppose he did n't have to face the same fierce bowling that we get today — I mean , West Indies and all that ? ’ commented Mis Mack 's Solicitor innocently .
18 ‘ We always had them , but not the numbers that we get today , nowhere near .
19 The Prices that we charge today
20 They 're the same guns — and bullets — that we use today , but in the whole village , only about seven or eight of them are left . ’
21 The stones that we see today are therefore the remains of the supports that once held the nets in position .
22 Notwithstanding the type of membership , the formation of the National Deaf Club was an important development for deaf people , for through it there grew the camaraderie that we see today in the deaf community — a sense of belonging to a body that was quite acceptable in social terms .
23 It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor .
24 We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme .
25 The antithetical models of design 's significance that we possess today , all of which contain implicitly or explicitly a view of " design-and-society " relations ( for example the view that sees design as merely the activity of commodity shaping , or the view that sees design as the activity which alone allows us to organise consciously the meeting of material human needs — which " involve things or usable products " — in forms consonant with and conducive to particular kinds of social relations or ways of life … ) contain also , naturally , a view of what design is .
26 Without the use of chemicals we would n't have the range of disease and pest-free foods that we have today .
27 We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group .
28 There were n't the business organisations that we have today , which place those who work in a particular place in the structure , as employee or employer .
29 This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today .
30 Probably there had been an earlier Atlantic which came to an end with the Caledonian orogeny , but this was the beginning of the ocean that we have today .
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