Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 When I moved on to Agra I found that the appearance of the buildings there had changed noticeably .
2 However well-intentioned an Arnold or an Attlee or a Keynes or a Webb I suspect that the outcome can hardly be what they envisaged .
3 Also in March I announced that Dr David Owen was to give his endorsement to one of the parties in the general election .
4 When I went to Germany with the RAF I found that all the lads used prostitutes .
5 ‘ By the time I went to Devonshire I knew that there was a real hound , and I knew we were looking for a man and a woman .
6 Hello John erm firstly I would sympathise with those that erm have been complaining about television programmes , although I erm did n't watch a great deal of television yesterday , I was listening to Radio Oxford actually , but erm from erm Ceefax I noticed that the Neighbours was broadcast twice .
7 When I took it over from Matt I realised that a wilderness was something different from the average person 's orderly life .
8 On this particular Friday I remembered that of course all the men were away shooting ISAAC or some other unlucky fellow .
9 Oh I mi- , I could possibly might be better if Jeff I think that all these , no these are too big .
10 Ceauşescu himself insisted that a pregnant woman was ‘ everybody 's concern ’ because family life was a ‘ socialized private problem ’ .
11 The government is entrusted with the task of protecting the lives , liberties and properties of the individual members of the body politic and there is a reading of Locke which I questioned last Tuesday which says that that is all a government can do .
12 Most employers ' schemes are ‘ contracted out ’ of SERPS which means that the employer has agreed to provide at least as much from his scheme as you would receive from SERPS .
13 The British Medical Association was sufficiently concerned about that evidence , and other evidence from the United States which showed that PCBs and other toxic and hazardous waste should be treated very seriously , to propose a national waste agency , because it claims that , at present , there is no central guidance and little consensus on the best form of industrial waste disposal , 90 per cent .
14 Freud himself said that the poets , not he , discovered the unconscious .
15 Freud himself thought that some of this work was nearer to myth than to natural science .
16 Branson himself said that he welcomed the ruling , if it accepted that the fare proposals were predatory , but that he was ‘ obviously disturbed ’ if the decision had been taken as a political move to stop Virgin applying in the US courts for remedies under the anti-trust laws .
17 Dr Bach himself believed that his flower remedies helped to bring the physical , emotional and mental planes of the individual more into harmony with the spiritual plane and said that there could be ‘ no true healing unless there is a change in outlook , peace of mind and inner happiness ’ .
18 Halema turned to the Sheikha who said that I had known her well .
19 However , these defects were largely solved by Litzenberger and Ramaswamy who concluded that risk-adjusted returns are higher for those securities offering higher dividend yields .
20 Back in Bolivia it 's women like Serapia con Quispe who pray that the Oxfam funding continues .
21 Widely seen as a sop to Bush 's conservative Republican critics , the directive was publicly disavowed on Nov. 21 by presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater who avowed that Bush had not seen it before it was sent out .
22 It was Lavandera who suggested that the concept of the linguistic variable could not usefully be applied to the analysis of syntactic variation because variants of so-called ‘ syntactic variables ’ were not semantically equivalent in the same way as phonological variables .
23 From their respective sites at Stowmarket and Peterborough , Prentice and Alcock could work out the heights and paths of the dust particles by triangulation , showing that these sporadic meteors were members of the Solar System , in contradiction to the view of professional astronomers in the United States who believed that they entered from interstellar space .
24 The strength of the civil service culture is commented upon by Hennessy who suggests that , after three decades of travelling up the hierarchy , senior civil servants become indistinguishable from each other :
25 You also said you played squash regularly erm there was a chap David you mentioned that er you play quite regularly er I 'd like to get in touch with him as well if I could .
26 This view was then modified by the ‘ young Hegelians ’ , a group of radical followers and critics of Hegel who argues that it was only the reformed or purified State which could be the source of a just society .
27 His association with these Hammersmith artists was a little resented by Elinor Moynihan who felt that , in comparison with the Soho painters , the Hammersmith set were artists with their claws pulled out .
28 Us kids were highly amused at all this , but I was distracted from the fun by Frankie who suggested that we gather up the bottles and hide them in the washhouse before they all got broken .
29 Throughout Indonesia we found that the fears of myth are still alive today .
30 I do n't suppose these efforts influenced the election in the slightest , but on the Friday we learned that Mr. Morrison had been re-elected and felt that we had done our part in ensuring his success .
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