Example sentences of "[pron] that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , the use of the soundtrack as a radio commercial involves some loss of effect , and it seems to me that in general a radio commercial is going to have a much better chance of achieving its desired effect if it is created from scratch . |
| 2 | ‘ It strikes me that in new clothes you could be highly presentable . |
| 3 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 4 | Despite the cataclysmic statistics the demographers throw at us , families in many parts of Africa today will tell you that at certain times of the year they suffer from a severe labour shortage . |
| 5 | But I believe the figure should be erm a few thousand below erm the forty one thousand and to that extent I would agree with you that in practical terms erm it 's going to be very difficult even if the figure is twenty five , twenty six thousand , to stick to thirty one . |
| 6 | I advise him that with unlimited spending , with arbitrary revaluations , with a rates proposal that goes back to 1973 — |
| 7 | When Marsh was dumped it did not concern him that as Australian captain anything he said or did might be misconstrued or magnified many times over . |
| 8 | Now , Azmaveth had told him that in other academies , conditions were very different . |
| 9 | Although the people who built this temple have long since vanished , legend has it that during certain summer full moons the wild elephants arrive to roister amongst the ruins . |
| 10 | The chemistry department had a strong reputation in carbohydrate chemistry , and the story had it that as new sugars were discovered they were given names that always ended in ‘ -ose ’ — eg sucrose , glucose , fructose etc . |
| 11 | Well liberation theology is one version of it that in certain parts of the world , particularly where there is great economic and political oppression , where people get locked up in prisons for believing and thinking differently , and where there is very real persecution of the poor , and those who erm have different ideas . |
| 12 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 13 | The old cliché has it that in hard times pop culture goes soft , entertainment becomes more trivial , more ‘ escapist ’ . |
| 14 | ( It is later explained to us that as Irish workers are on strike , a Polish crew has been assembled . ) |
| 15 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 17 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |