Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she took one step more towards me so that a bar of light fell across her face and I could see the angry expression on it . |
| 2 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 3 | I can tell you confidentially that a well-known boxer who owns a company has been stake-building . |
| 4 | Did I tell you once that a nurse on erm radiotherapy did my psychometry ? |
| 5 | Furthermore , it did not seem to him right that a specifically Indian movement should be known by an English name . |
| 6 | The lawyers had told her vaguely that a woman from the village came in to clean — but she had quite expected to find the furniture shrouded in dust-sheets , and a general air of cheerlessness such as is usually associated with empty houses . |
| 7 | We do n't think it right that a 150-year-old traditional English drink should be legislated out of the English language to satisfy the monopoly interests of the French champagne growers . ’ |
| 8 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 9 | Before the strip cools , take the candle and tip it so that a drop of wax falls on to the strip and spreads out around the hole . |
| 10 | Well I 've heard it before that a , said , said before that a , that , that the plant roots curl up to the surface to meet , rather than digging down deep and . |
| 11 | It was put to me recently that a guitar 's country of origin is irrelevant when determining its overall quality in the market place . |
| 12 | Despite the appearance given by the EEG of probing the machinery of the brain , electroencephalography is a relatively gross technique which tells us only that a population of neural units is active rather than quiescent . |
| 13 | And has n't Wittgenstein shown us anyway that a concept can be perfectly healthy without being definable , arguing that there need be no element common to all instances of a property ( e.g. instances of knowledge ) other than that they are instances ( e.g. that they are knowledge ) ? |