Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 2 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 3 | In the middle of the nineteenth century Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) , one of the wisest of men , could do no better than to say that the strength of solids was due to the cohesion between their fine particles and that the subject was a very interesting one . |
| 4 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 5 | So that go that goes there then really does it ? |
| 6 | So that meant that he was he could n't sort of do a heavy heavy work so he just used to do odd job things you know , he 'd sell horse and carts and er he 'd go down to the pier when he used to do the fishing boats , he used to come in and he 'd buy a box of fish from them and go round the streets selling them you know . |
| 7 | Erm and that how that but through land reform it meant that how that you had erm credit difficulties and that how that landlords who prev previously provided the credit were no longer there and so that meant that how that erm that exasperated problems of increasing productivity and also there was a severe shortage of farm implements and animals cos they were n't redistributed , there was only the surplus that was taken away from the rich peasants and landlords , it meant that how that the , the rich peasants erm you know , got back er they sort of were a self-perpetuating elite in that how the poor peasants just did n't have the means to improving their production . |
| 8 | And so that shows that how that they I mean it implies that that 's happening and that that ought to be controlled . |
| 9 | Not only have we got young people from all the political parties involved , but we 've also got Sir Geoffrey Howe , John Smith , David Owen , Lord Jenkins , in other words one senior representative from each of the major political parties has agreed to be a patron er so that shows that it is a cross-party initiative . |
| 10 | Yeah , so that means that people who 've been living here before has has been ripping catalogues off and things like that . |
| 11 | So that means that , okay , supposing we have a tutorial , does that mean we have n't got anything next term until the exams start ? |
| 12 | That means that we are locked into issuing fire certificates since we rely on the and it imposes a marked official erm , performance target on us , we ca n't afford to let the numbers of inspections of supported defences drop , so that means that we 've got to find money from elsewhere in the budget . |
| 13 | So that means that er , in th the total we do have to pay in some way or another , is four thousand pounds with sixty but we 'll say we 've already got three thousand four hundred , if all the for , forty people go and they pay twenty five pounds each , that 's another thousand , so we 've got a I think I 've got it right , a , we 're only a hundred and sixty short . |
| 14 | This is the final account , so that means that you 've finished altogether with the property . |
| 15 | I remember a on the telephone , you know , I used to speak and talk and talk , apparently she would switch to German , so that means that I ca n't someone |
| 16 | it 's twenty two so that means that it 's ten degrees ten above zero . |
| 17 | So that means that the productivity has to go up , presumably . |
| 18 | MDU leader Dzorig told supporters at a rally that eliminating the MPRP 's monopoly of power from the Constitution was not enough and demanded that the Hural , of which 93.4 per cent of the deputies were MPRP members , be dissolved to make way for a democratically elected legislature . |
| 19 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 20 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 21 | Without actually moving physically , I shook my head clear inside and decided that the big male would make a fine head for a Pole . |
| 22 | He glanced at the map of the Underground on the panel opposite and saw that they were approaching Embankment Station . |
| 23 | Madame Butterfly , he thought , for he had sneaked a glance at the soldier opposite and seen that he was now weeping , the letter crumpled in his fist , scrunching apple blossom . |
| 24 | One chronicler noted with surprise that Count Baldwin of Hainault loved his wife alone and observed that such behaviour was rarely to be found in a man . |
| 25 | Come the following Sunday , therefore , I returned to the site alone and noticed that my friends had indeed given the field a careful search , for much of the soil was flattened by footprints . |
| 26 | It is as well at this point to confirm that it is so and to add that there are further complications , bibliographical and biographical . |
| 27 | It is always dangerous to prophesy , but I am prepared to do so and say that it will not be possible to hold the pound at DM2.95 . |
| 28 | We tend to view ourselves as physical beings only and to deny that we have anything in the way of a soul or spirit . |
| 29 | Designate a set of spatulas for dispensing tissue culture chemicals only and ensure that they are cleaned after every use . |
| 30 | ‘ And all we shall have to do is to stick together and confess that this dreadful accident did happen a little bit earlier and we all felt devastated but there was a full house and we all felt we owed it to the public that the show should go on . |