Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone rightly said that language exists to prevent us communicating , and of no country is that more true than my own . |
| 2 | Someone just said that I must be mad . |
| 3 | Finally , someone once calculated that if the pillars and spires were stood one on top of the other they would be 5,300 metres high . |
| 4 | Someone once said that you were n't much interested in politics except of the musical variety , of which you are a consummate master ; but you have been friendly with a number of leading politicians , including two British Prime Ministers . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone once said that playing patience was the nearest thing to being dead . ’ |
| 6 | Someone once said that a sign of how civilized a society was is shown in how they treated their old people . |
| 7 | Someone once said that principles were expensive things . |
| 8 | Similarly , it 's no good discovering that you are going to need an autocue and a slide projector when there 's no money left to buy or hire them , or that your guest speaker will only fly first class when you 've allocated £200 in your budget for his travel costs because someone vaguely remembered that £200 was the ‘ Apex fare ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ But unless someone else says that about you , there 's no way of believing in it totally , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The world became much bigger and someone else discovered that it was round . |
| 11 | A member of the committee can be represented by someone else provided that person is holding a letter of authority duly signed by the member ( r 6.156 ) . |
| 12 | In terms of computer technology trade libel would occur if someone falsely claimed that a particular software dealer was trading in pirated software or was in financial difficulties or if a software house 's products were defective or would not operate on a particular make of computer . |
| 13 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 14 | Somebody once said that if we do n't history we 're condemned to repeat history , and God forbid if that were erm to happen . |
| 15 | Will he further recognise that his announcement today , while totally predictable — nobody ever believed that a genuine consultation process was taking place — represents one of the final death knells for the discredited band of brigands who represent the Scottish Conservative party ? |
| 16 | Nobody ever said that a VS had to be lace-up , did they ? |
| 17 | Amazingly , during this trial year nobody ever suspected that I was a womon , though I occasionally got called ‘ poofter ’ . |
| 18 | Apparently they 're up to here in woolies , but nobody ever remembers that homeless men need underpants too . |
| 19 | Nobody now supposes that political processes begin and end with elections , or that elected governments have a monopoly of political power . |
| 20 | Nobody really says that any more they say I would be , they do n't bother saying I should |
| 21 | In most firms , financial planning is seen as a nasty chore , and nobody really believes that the numbers agreed will actually be achieved . |
| 22 | But , we did n't even nobody even said that there actually , game had actually taken part |
| 23 | Somebody here observed that it must be the first Life on somebody so reclusive and how therefore did the programme-makers manage to find enough guests ? |
| 24 | at three thirty , if nobody else rings that wants to play three thirty then there 'll be nobody there |
| 25 | Quite sure why , how somebody else says that the number of twenty six five termination suggests that peers will be dealing with more than one file each day , well , but that 's what the arithmetic says . |
| 26 | Well no-one ever knew that the fire alarms were going off . |
| 27 | In anger he stated that no-one ever suggested that a billion dollar a year business should operate without a proper board of management . |
| 28 | I would have liked to take them off but the situation was still uncertain , and everyone still believed that the German forces were determined to push us off this high ground east of the Orne . |
| 29 | But one rarely thinks that clearly about things one has no experience of . |
| 30 | The book is dense with tables and text , and one rather wishes that Thomas had illustrated a few of the more photogenic Ca-dependent events . |