Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extent to which Louis VI and Louis VII had consolidated royal powers was masked from their contemporaries by their policy of pushing hard only where they knew that resistance was weak . |
| 2 | The proper approach should be to convict D of the aggravated offence only where he knew that V was , or might be , a police-officer . |
| 3 | But the passing , the finishing was good , Lee Nogan hit a good shot , first couple of men in so you know that goes in , it 's a different game . |
| 4 | So although we think that our method is best , we fully realize that you 've got styles , things th which you 've built up over many years . |
| 5 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 6 | Indeed the Americans soon found themselves moving yet closer to Britain , especially once they discovered that their own initiatives ( not least their pressure on Israel ) still left them at loggerheads with Egypt and the Arab radicals . |
| 7 | But he then swung the other way , especially once he discovered that the appointment of a new British prime minister was a possibility . |
| 8 | Not so strange , perhaps if one reflects that all moral dramas need villains as well as heroes , and that Leavis above all offered moral drama . |
| 9 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |
| 10 | The actual concentration of an industry is hard to assess precisely and there are many different measures of it ( eg if we say that the five firm concentration ratio is 85 per cent , this means that the largest five firms in the industry control 85 per cent of the market ; a two firm concentration ratio of 100 per cent indicates that two firms completely dominate the market ) . |
| 11 | Write down the correct order ( eg if you feel that 4 should come first , write 4 1 2 3 ) . |
| 12 | He claims that one can ‘ understand narrative better if one knows that a character is a noun , and the action a verb ’ . |
| 13 | Buckets , well every night time , when we finished dredging , you had to wash down , wash the decks down cos I mean that the decks used to be covered in mud and slush , so all we had then was an old draw bucket on a bit of rope , over the side , there were n't no hoses then , we used to the bucket and then we used to swing all the mud back in there , in the river . |
| 14 | Choreographers who are inspired to interpret music can do so in many ways , all of which can be successful , but only if they remember that its overall rhythm is not merely a mechanical guide to the timing of the steps within the dance design ( see page 68 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ If the inhabitants are like us , they will respect us only if they see that we are strong . ’ |
| 16 | Generally , senators assume that the President has the right to make the nominations and they will block them only if they feel that the nominees are particularly weak and the President needs teaching a lesson . |
| 17 | Once again , pragmatism can be defended as providing a good fit with what judges actually do and say in hard cases only if we assume that a pragmatist would have noble-lie reasons for constructing and deferring to the best account of the principle underlying past cases in these situations . |
| 18 | Only if one believes that the prospect of privatization is the only way to improve management performance in nationalized industries can one attribute the benefit to privatization itself . |
| 19 | Your laughter can be unrestrained only if you believe that nobody is getting hurt . |
| 20 | Right in the course of our er er com our meetings Danny erm I will be asking you to recommend me to people but if , but only if you feel that this meeting has been of some benefit to you . |
| 21 | Only if I lost that would I have to take my little warband elsewhere . |
| 22 | Only if he feels that a private sector or B R management would be er frightened off bidding , and he knew that there were viable bids in play |
| 23 | ( 4 ) The sheriff may uphold an appeal under this section only if he considers that the licensing board in arriving at its decision : a ) erred in law ; b ) based its decision on any incorrect material fact ; c ) acted contrary to natural justice ; or d ) exercised its discretion in an unreasonable manner . |
| 24 | No matter for how long a period lifers are detained , the Home Secretary will release those people only if he considers that it is safe to do so . |
| 25 | An alternative view is that the accused is guilty only if he foresaw that he might not be able to redeem the article . |
| 26 | It the statement is taken in this way , a hearer should assent to it only if he believes that I have the belief . |
| 27 | The ocean carrier , therefore , was deemed to warrant to the consignor safe transport and delivery and could avoid liability only if he proved that something in the nature of force majeure had intervened . |
| 28 | And he never had any hesitation in using his reputation to reach the most unapproachable people personally if he thought that conservation would benefit as a result . |
| 29 | We might begin to think so if we reflected that in parlour games the rules never change , and then noticed that this year the most accomplished of our poets in their forties published , sixty years after Pound 's Lustra and Eliot 's Prufrock , an ambitious poem in the shape of fifteen interlinked pentameter sonnets . |
| 30 | They may also do so if they anticipate that their liquid assets may soon be squeezed by government monetary policy . |