Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 It 's very heartening that the A T C are actually looking to us to do some work with them , and that they actually think that Oxford is moving forward in the right direction , and that they actually want to come and share some of our knowledge .
2 I can claim that I did , and that I never breached that trust , assuming that I had any information of a sufficiently intriguing character to make it worthwhile betraying a friend .
3 In a press conference in Rabat on Aug. 14 Hakim said that the attitude of the Algerian government , and specifically of Defence Minister Khalid Nezzar , had changed , and that it now recommended that a " rapid settlement " with Morocco be found .
4 She began to feel that she was wasting her time and that he probably thought that she was mad .
5 Now , he does think that the one and the mind is present to every one of us , erm , but I also take it that erm he er thought that he himself , had been able to ascend to the one er four times in the course of his life and that he also thought that some of his students were of better contemplation than others and erm so he may also have thought as Plato did , that some people are more inclined towards philosophy than others .
6 Dexter knew it was tempting to ask Lancaster whether he was lying and that he really meant that he could n't face the idea of seeing his wife again , a wife he had murdered and left a bloody corpse on the floor downstairs only a few minutes before .
7 George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable .
8 And if they somehow suspected that I was picking up something valuable , why would any of them try to kill me before the pick-up ?
9 Nursing staff on some of those areas that we would pick out — those would be the intensive care units , the children 's units , the delivery suites and special care baby units — the nursing staff actually have control of permits which they can issue to relatives who are going to be here for a great length of time , and if they so feel that these relatives should n't be charged , they give them a permit and they park in a staff area at no charge whatsoever .
10 This environment is far worse for lichen growth than any known in the Arctic and if we conservatively assume that the Antarctic lichens grow only half as quickly as those in the north , the former with a present diameter of 100 mm must be easily 10 000 years old and perhaps considerably older .
11 Since the long-run real growth rate in GDP in the UK is between 2.5 and 3 per cent , and if we additionally assume that the long-run inflation rate is 5 per cent , then a realistic estimate of the long-run nominal growth rate in earnings is around 8 per cent per annum .
12 But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them .
13 Of course , if the man is clearly carved from stone then pointing is in order , and if we subsequently discover that ‘ he ’ is an inflatable rubber doll we are suitably embarrassed .
14 A draft contract will provide for a 10% deposit , and if it then transpires that the buyer can not afford to pay this , it is customary to negotiate it down to 5% , but not usually below .
15 Thank you Chairman I , I actually agreed with those not so much that erm I , I have problems with erm other matters , it is more extra to be examined and because it actually says that it has to be examined once , and will therefore be re-examined erm , erm I am sure if it should be examined they have to put exact what it means examine in and before and as you say er you will be the first to say .
16 ‘ Oh , shit , ’ I then said , because that was how I felt and because I suddenly knew that the next few minutes were going to be extraordinarily difficult .
17 He did , and when he eventually learned that the child 's mother had committed suicide and that out of compassion the rag woman had taken her into her house to save her being put in the workhouse or farmed out , again they both agreed that the rag woman had worthy motives .
18 And though she half hoped that Friend would wheel alongside her so that she could ignore him , he did n't appear .
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