Example sentences of "[adj] and that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Jerry Rawlings , Chairman of the PNDC and Head of State , from contesting the forthcoming presidential elections , on the grounds that his father was Scottish and that his allegiance to Ghana could therefore not be taken for granted , and because charges were still outstanding against him arising from the coups in May 1979 , June 1981 and December 1981 [ see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ] .
2 His most recent biographer has observed that ‘ because Aymer de Valence held the English earldom of Pembroke and spent his entire career in English service it is easy to forget that in origin he was almost entirely French and that he retained very close links with France throughout his life ’ .
3 It is a shame that the players feel they can put sponsors to ransom like this and that they are bigger than the sport . ’
4 He says that th the communists have , have got have n't got the erm the reasons right for this and that they ne if they do n't get them right then they , they are going to , to , it will be bad for the revolution , they need
5 talking to one of these receptionists today and she says erm she 's been trying to get a bit of erm , she 's split up with her husband , trying to get , a bit of extra money together , you know , to be , she 's got her own house like , buying her own house and all this and that she 's fell into a bloody modelling job and saying get yourself a passport and er on about sending her off to either the South of France or Kenya
6 Maurice , an amiable young man , had realised as soon as he came to the Reach that Richard was always going to do this and that he himself would accordingly be known as Dondeschiepolschuygen IV which was inscribed in gilt lettering on his bows .
7 Perhaps my opinion on morality 's changed , you know , that there is right and wrong and all this and that you 've got to accept people .
8 Well , perhaps this is a few too many , but he knows after many years ' experience that he can ask for this and that it is necessary .
9 But it does mean that cross-addiction is a factor that may possibly be of some influence in all of this and that it is a factor that may need to be taken into consideration in the long term in attempting to improve the over all quality of recovery .
10 A lot more sort of individual builders and self-employed people like me and Chas will be more aware of things like this and that there are alternatives to it .
11 Co-ordinator — making sure that objectives are clear and that everyone is involved and committed .
12 But I am prepared to accept that her delusions of grandeur are a form of psychosis connected with ageing and that her refusal to consider retirement springs from an awareness that it is she , not the country , who is in danger of falling to bits is she desists from hyper-activity .
13 I discovered that the remedies were all prepared from wild flowers , plants and trees , that none were harmful and that they were not used directly for physical complaints , but for the sufferer 's negative feelings such as worry , apprehension , hopelessness , irritability etc .
14 Leavis was a major critic and a very influential educator , who was convinced both that criticism was essentially evaluative and that it was at the heart of English studies .
15 I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on .
16 I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on .
17 The title may give the totally misleading impression that only chemical engineers will find it interesting and that it is simply concerned with refineries and chemical plants .
18 He agreed the figures were wrong and that they would be amended .
19 In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " .
20 Is he aware that his information is totally wrong and that nothing in the application shows that patient care and services will improve under the trusts ?
21 He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it .
22 And er and she said he enjoys it and he goes to playgroup I think he must go to Dennington playgroup cos he 's going to Dennington school , and he enjoys sitting down and being , likes looking at books and he 's started writing and she said actually she said I 'm really panicking because I 'm frightened that I might be teaching him wrong and that I 'm I said well why do n't you pop in and have a word at the school ?
23 I can tell something is wrong and that you 're dying to spoil things for me .
24 I knew that he too would tell me I was wrong and that it was in another part of the country .
25 It is submitted that this approach is wrong and that it would be better to consider the database structure as a form of expression in its own right and not as part of the computer program .
26 She had come through her sternest test , she had proven the singing budgie brigade was woefully wrong and that she was now ready to take her career into the even more rarefied atmosphere occupied by only a tiny handful of superstars .
27 The Deeside group says it is doing nothing wrong and that there are no laws to prohibit collecting cockles , which have flourished on the beach .
28 Hansom believes that your species , Australopithecus tanzaniensis , was our ancestor , and Luckey maintains that this belief is wrong and that our ancestor was another species of the genus Homo .
29 As their Lordships understand their reasoning , it was that the two sales were not legally interdependent and that there was no evidence to support the judge 's finding that the Perots had a special interest in buying the two adjoining properties .
30 But Liz revealed her hair was naturally curly and that she prefers to dry it straight .
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