Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In anger he stated that no-one ever suggested that a billion dollar a year business should operate without a proper board of management . |
| 2 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 3 | Although it later transpired that the RSSPCC were contracted by the Social Work Department to remove and question the South Ronaldsay children , at the time it was generally understood that Orkney 's own social workers were mainly involved . |
| 4 | If that is the case , then it is possible that he also thought that the synagogue ritual , as well as the direction of their commercial life and benefactions should have been handled differently . |
| 5 | Was it that he suddenly realised that his convictions of the past 30 years were false , or did he simply realise that the electorate could not stomach them ? |
| 6 | I do not believe in the course of the protracted discussions about this case that anyone seriously proposed that all Cabinet deliberations should be revealed to the world at large within minutes of their taking place . |
| 7 | I would have liked to take them off but the situation was still uncertain , and everyone still believed that the German forces were determined to push us off this high ground east of the Orne . |
| 8 | It was students demonstrating , as a result of which a number of them were arrested and I later learnt that a few were sentenced to be flogged . |
| 9 | It was indescribable and I intensely disliked that spot ever since . |
| 10 | In terms of computer technology trade libel would occur if someone falsely claimed that a particular software dealer was trading in pirated software or was in financial difficulties or if a software house 's products were defective or would not operate on a particular make of computer . |
| 11 | ‘ And you immediately assumed that you had outstayed your welcome and I would be thinking to myself , ‘ Mon Dieu , now I have to face that idiotic English girl . ’ |
| 12 | If Guillory hollered his blues , Renbourn confided his , looking as solidly English as roast beef and sounding wistful and worldly-wise , his playing strolling along affably until one suddenly realised that — as in an old Booker T number — things were really starting to shift with indecent ease . |
| 13 | If one also supposed that only one or two electrons could orbit at any one of these distances , this would solve the problem of the collapse of the atom , because the electrons could not spiral in any farther than to fill up the orbits with the least distances and energies . |
| 14 | He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant . |
| 15 | It was quite still for the breeze had dropped and he vaguely registered that the women seemed to have gone . |
| 16 | There was a huge smooth branch very close to where Little Billy was sitting and he suddenly noticed that a small square patch of bark on this branch was beginning to move . |
| 17 | The Yasa was made when your grandsire and mine both thought that it was a long way from Kinsai to the Eastern Sea , ’ he growled . |
| 18 | And would n't it be awful if he ever realized that it 's not very important to us , that we 'd rather not be safe if only he had the courage to take our safety away … " |
| 19 | Fabia was seated beside Ven in a taxi when she realised that furious would be an understatement for what Ven would be if he ever learned that she had not only deceived him but , to add insult to injury , allowed him , believing her to be someone else , to house her and feed her into the bargain . |
| 20 | ‘ Andy ( Roxburgh ) and myself always thought that Switzerland and Italy had to be considered the favourites to qualify but there is now a dog-eat-dog contest involving three countries for second place , ’ said Brown . |
| 21 | Minnie did not attend the wedding but everyone else thought that Helen was a beautiful bride . |
| 22 | It was alright but I just hoped that there was n't much more of it . |
| 23 | Similarly , it 's no good discovering that you are going to need an autocue and a slide projector when there 's no money left to buy or hire them , or that your guest speaker will only fly first class when you 've allocated £200 in your budget for his travel costs because someone vaguely remembered that £200 was the ‘ Apex fare ’ . |
| 24 | They were thrilled when they suddenly realized that not only had Tom Mix and Gloria Swanson been in the audience on opening night but were in the same room with them at the party afterwards . |
| 25 | So , for thirty years Alfred Glynn had preserved this room as it had been when he still believed that the silk counterpane and the eiderdown would be the covers on his marriage bed . |
| 26 | His ambitions were fulfilled as he rightly claimed that his cars won more races than any other model . |