Example sentences of "[verb] that [Wh det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why , ’ he insisted , ‘ should you have supposed that what you saw concerned the unicorn ? ’ |
| 2 | I suggest that what we are really trying to do is to re-establish contact with the earth spirit through visiting sites , to emphasize pilgrimage rather than tourism . |
| 3 | Tracey and Morrison suggest that what she was trying to achieve in bringing the prosecution ‘ lay not in punishing Lemon , nor in a sense bringing back to life the blasphemy laws . |
| 4 | I suggest that what I have summarized in this paragraph is what lies behind Kuhn 's claim that rival paradigms are ‘ incommensurable ’ . |
| 5 | How do we know that what we 're drawing into our lungs is n't doing us harm . |
| 6 | In the case of a defendant who uses words , a person can hardly fail to be aware of what he is saying , although he may possibly not know that what he is displaying ( if it be a book ) contains offensive material of which others are aware but he is not . |
| 7 | If he had , he would know that what he has said is not right . |
| 8 | The sufferer must know that what you say is the whole of what you believe and want to transmit . |
| 9 | Do you not know that what you belittle by the name tree is but the mere four-dimensional analogue of a whole multidimensional universe which — no , I can see you do not . |
| 10 | Hopefully , in the near future , I will say that I am cured , but I do know that whatever I have learned about myself , through the Alexander Technique , will always be with me in the future and will help me through any other crisis in the time to come . |
| 11 | Similarly Emperor Marcus answered by rescript that the words in which a testator had provided that ‘ he did not doubt that whatever his wife had received she would restore to his children ’ should be treated as a trust . |
| 12 | The Labour leader , John Smith , took full advantage of their discomfiture , and the conference demonstrated that whatever its doubts over Smith 's modernising intentions , there are none concerning his home rule credentials . |
| 13 | To accept that whatever she had done or promised or performed to maintain her position in Market Square then her choice could only have been that or the workhouse . |
| 14 | He will be criminally liable unless he was so insane as either ‘ not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ’ , or ‘ not to know that what he was doing was against the law ’ . |
| 15 | Thus , it is reasonable to argue , instead of trying to determine what class is by theoretical disputation , let us recognise that what we have here is a concept which probably indicates something significant about social behaviour , but precisely what that is is not clear . |
| 16 | However , the lady in question corrected this error , explaining that what they had seen on the X-ray was actually her ‘ pessaire anti-conceptionnel ’ . |
| 17 | Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct . |
| 18 | Some religious traditions emphasise that certain events in the world can be considered to be God 's actions , and have claimed that what we know of God is derived from our interpretation of these events . |
| 19 | Compare them both and you realise that what we should be parodying in 1993 is rap . |
| 20 | I realise that what I am describing , people divided in themselves , is said to characterise mental illness , and is the absolute opposite of our idea of emotional integration . |
| 21 | He waves his fist in the air , and I realise that what he sees is three men on the grass , with a fourth going through their pockets . |
| 22 | It is very effective and almost shocking when you realise that what he is saying makes complete sense and the uselessness of war is so true as it really achieves very little good if any at all . |
| 23 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 24 | He had once heard an Englishman say that what he knew of nuclear physics could be written on the back of a blackcurrant . |
| 25 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 26 | But in many boroughs , Mr Easey said , ‘ we began to find that whatever we said , they 'd go ahead and charge them anyway ’ . |
| 27 | He returned to the living-room and found that what he had taken to be a cupboard door , in fact gave access by a flight of stairs to the shop . |
| 28 | After another brief pause , the speaker continues , using and to indicate that what she is going to say is connected to what she has just said . |
| 29 | It will be objected that what I am suggesting will be the death of ‘ standards ’ in schools , and especially in the sixth form . |
| 30 | She 'd finally realised that what she needed was to commit mind , body and soul into something challenging and exciting . |