Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He insists that everyone in the office should ‘ get out into the field ’ occasionally . |
| 2 | Susan insists that none of them are big enough and Cheryl is equally insistent that the right sized one is . |
| 3 | The Private Practice and Professional Fees Committee of the BMA agrees that none of this adequately explains the rise in my premium and it has expressed astonishment at the figures I have provided . |
| 4 | I doubt if that is so I think to some extent we may be in what we are saying and doing , feeding the current which says that nobody in national politics could conceivably be honest or decent or competent in any way whatsoever , that to be a Member of the House of Commons or to be a Member of the Government is somehow to have the mark of put upon them . |
| 5 | Social learning theory can be applied in many cases but is too extensive when it says that nothing in the human being is innate and that everything must be learnt . |
| 6 | In the Quran , Allah says that everything in this universe vests absolutely in Allah ( Sura al-Maidah , ayat 17 ) and that the State is but a mere Trustee . |
| 7 | The report says that one in 10 customers were charged incorrectly by their bank or building society , one in five had wrangles over standing orders and one in seven had money incorrectly removed from their accounts . |
| 8 | Randi says that none of these feats would have been possible if researchers had followed his advice . |
| 9 | She says that none of the staff at the Southampton office has been made redundant , although several who have left have not yet been replaced . |
| 10 | There survives a copy of a letter sent to a priest Ælf. , almost certainly Ælfwine , which says that none of the royal councils are hidden from him , and asks for his intercession with the queen so that the writer might be given a fishery . |
| 11 | Gary Chapman says that lots of drivers start here in karting … its a good training ground for motor sport |
| 12 | It is as though one has a newspaper delivered only for the football results on Saturdays and assumes that nothing at all happened on the other days of the week . |
| 13 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 14 | But this record shows that something like 30,340 imperial shillings were expected in revenue : 3300 from the Patrimony , 5800 from religious institutions , and 21,200 , the lion 's share , from states and vassals . |
| 15 | But polls suggest that it may be the most popular party within all the black linguistic groups ; and the fighting in the mostly-Zulu province of Natal between the ANC and Inkatha shows that plenty of South Africa 's 8m Zulus take the ANC 's side . |
| 16 | ICI 's methanol and ammonia business manager John Stoney says the Supplier Quality Management Process is an excellent programme ‘ because it shows that everybody in ICI has an effect on the relationship with the customer . ’ |
| 17 | Snuff are what the Manics sneeringly refer to as ‘ a T-shirt band ’ — meaning a group of young southern Englishmen forever willing to amble about in Transit van land and getting the occasional play on rubbish indie radio shows that nobody with any taste listens to . |
| 18 | A new survey shows that one in three students gets drunk once a week and also takes drugs at parties . |
| 19 | I assure my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon , North-West ( Mr. Malins ) that an examination of other elected assemblies which can be paralleled to ours in Europe , America or elsewhere shows that we in the British House of Commons spend three , four or even five times longer debating legislation . |
| 20 | They have yet to learn what thinking people who are honest with themselves already know , namely , that all history shows that none of the worshipped ‘ gods ’ has ever directly provided anything . |
| 21 | Professor Glennerster says that his research shows that none of the alleged scares about the scheme could be found to be true . |
| 22 | It shows that none of us is perfect , not even the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 23 | I talked recently to one in the Highland area who reckons that something like 80% of the people on his list are now over retirement age . |
| 24 | At another he speculates that none of them knew much about news or editing . |
| 25 | The report of the cardiac services review group states that none of London 's 14 cardiac tertiary care centres is ideal . |
| 26 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 27 | Yet it transpires that none of the money that is so essential for restoring endangered architectural treasures is ever paid to the great figures of modern art . |
| 28 | ‘ Being a young , enthusiastic , naive sort , I volunteered to do extra shifts in the newsroom , including the late night shifts that none of the other reporters wanted to do . |
| 29 | That uncomfortable conscience demands that somebody from the very top be indicted for the system as a whole . |
| 30 | Yet it seems that none of them was completely surprised . |