Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We see an incredible number of young people , and it worries me immensely that these are people at sixteen who 've been chucked out of their homes , and they are being pushed down by bureaucracy , that they are being penalised for leaving home at sixteen when it is not their own fault , it is the fault of well it is the result of family breakdown that they are being pushed out . |
| 2 | ‘ It worries me greatly that Darlington has only one ambulance after 7pm at night . ’ |
| 3 | This will not necessarily stop the Not-OK feelings but it at least contains them so that they do n't damage the transaction . |
| 4 | The plating feeder holds them so that one yarn is always on the purl side and one on the knit side . |
| 5 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 6 | For both Kung ( 1981 ) and Lyotard , art moves within the area between man 's capacity to conceive an idea and his ability to create an artefact that evokes or articulates it so that one of art 's more important roles is the symbolization of what does not yet exist . |
| 7 | The new technology takes waste material from a manufacturing plant , mixes it with waste gases from the same plant and recycles it so that it can be used again . |
| 8 | A glance at the shelf containing his long list of books shows us immediately that the bulk of his work was completed when Minto was in her dotage or after she died . |
| 9 | I am sorry if the Prime Minister takes it seriously that I oppose Maastricht . |
| 10 | Her stomach lurching in sympathy with the plane dropping down fast towards Bangkok convinces her dully that it 's she who 's done it : left England , friends , comrades , ways of seeing , the easy labels of self-definition . |
| 11 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |
| 12 | Sir tells him straight that he 's got to be a tree But he wo n't wave his arms around . |
| 13 | Martha tells him often that I am in the history department as opposed to being the history department , in the sense of running a history department . |
| 14 | The Minister tells us tonight that everything is hunky-dunky and everyone gets the money to which they are entitled . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Thus , the ‘ equation ’ is really an identity which must always be true : it tells us only that the total amount of money handed over in transactions is equal to the value of what is sold . |
| 17 | Gary Pulsifer of Peter Owen informs me proudly that Owen authors Anne Cummin and Fiona Pitt-Kethley are due to appear naked on a Valentine 's Day broadcast on Channel 4 . |
| 18 | Nobody has exemplified the extremes of this aberration of outdoor endeavour more than Chris Townsend , so it serves him right that he is called to write a book on the subject . |
| 19 | The Foreign Ministry informs us now that , since your parents were both born Soviet citizens , under Soviet law you are a Soviet citizen also . |
| 20 | It strikes him suddenly that Venus is in the wrong place . |
| 21 | The reprocessing does not create plutonium but recovers it so that it can be recycled as a source of energy . |
| 22 | The close-up of the ribbons , preceded by a short , almost subliminal zoom , nearly persuades us too that the fire is real , a totally unclassifiable special effect . |
| 23 | Thorny uses all kinds of things I would never have known about , she finds fungi in the woods , horrible brown oozing stuff , and cooks them so that you would never know . |
| 24 | makes it so that you can , you see the other thing what 's your name ? |
| 25 | Then when you swing hard at his foot , he lifts it so that your sweep passes underneath it . |