Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 If not , I suggest that he withdraws his reference to AMMA .
2 That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct .
3 Well you 've heard the senior prosecutor say that she knows nothing , she
4 Some say that it helps them to study , but do n't accept that .
5 Well its supporters say that it 's it 's justified on the grounds of democracy .
6 Newcomers to CAD say that it has its own jargon .
7 I well understand why Opposition Members are looking rather depressed today , but I do not think that it has anything to do with catering facilities in the House .
8 I do think that she needs one . ’
9 I do n't think that she wants anything for it
10 4 Do you think that he gets what he deserves ? 5 Have you ever been showing off and something has happened to you ? 6 Why do you think we like it when people who are being bigheaded get show up ?
11 He recognizes that this willingness to fillet the intellectual and thematic from even the most ho-hum work is absent from the Anglo-Saxon world , yet he also thinks that he understands it because of his own ( despite the tennis lessons and jogging ) Jewishness .
12 If , however , your answer is specific ( e.g. ‘ She has a temper tantrum when I insist that she obeys me , for example when I tell her to eat up her breakfast ’ ) then an effective procedure can be worked out .
13 ‘ Methinks I should contrive to send her a message , suggesting that she pays me another visit . ’
14 And so the telegram was sent , a come-uppance which deserves quotation as an act that may have saved the world from early extinction by sheer megalomania : ‘ I deeply regret that it becomes my duty as president and Commander-in-Chief of the United States military forces to replace you as Supreme Commander , Allied Powers ; Commander-in-Chief , United Nations Command ; Commander-in-Chief , Far East ; and Commanding General , U. S. Army Far East .
15 Given a set of forces and an assurance that equilibrium prevails , the human sense of balance is so finely developed that it directs us to their focus .
16 I intend to see that it gets it . ’
17 All in all , you will find that your chances of happiness together under the same roof will depend very largely upon your ability to respect and accept her individuality , to see that she gets her share of family affection , to make it possible for her to keep usefully occupied ( within her limitations ) in the home , and to engage as far as she can in all the outside interests she has always enjoyed .
18 Matilda stays where she is and it is up to you to see that she behaves herself . ’
19 But he 's a bit petulant with Lonnie , who aims to see that he keeps his date at Hilton Head Island .
20 The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price .
21 In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat .
22 The disadvantages placed on the industry mean that it costs our farmers 5p a dozen more to produce eggs .
23 He does n't mean anything by it — it just so happens that he inflicts his pent-up frustrations on the person nearest to hand .
24 Steve Goodwin is The Drummer From Cud and he 's pretending that he thinks it 's a really cool joke ha ha ha that both he and the band he loves have become a synonym for wanky indie crap .
25 This will involve the submission and testing of their product by the potential customer , who will ensure that it meets his technical and operating requirements .
26 Alternatively , any firm which has made a definite decision not to seek authorisation must ensure that it understands what constitutes investment business and , having established that it can refer clients to suitable authorised independent advisers , avoid further involvement like the plague .
27 The Ecology Building Society argues that it is recreating the original grass-roots feel of a membership-owned mutual society , and says that it involves its members closely in the development of new savings accounts .
28 Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present .
29 And she says that she does what she can in her own way , she tries her best to do what she can to help .
30 The newspaper says that she ends her speech with the words : ‘ There is no magic formula that will transform sorrow into happiness , intolerance into compassion , or war into peace . ’
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