Example sentences of "[conj] that [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody likes to admit that they entertain very little , or that they rarely enjoy it when they do . |
| 2 | This does not assume , she claims , that people are always completely conscious of their efforts or that they clearly articulate the reasons for trends of common behaviour . |
| 3 | Both the American and British governments are cloaking these new operations in a shroud of secrecy though it is unlikely any politician has the slightest idea what the two agencies are planning to do or that they even care if laws are broken as they have been in the past . |
| 4 | ‘ Or that they both escaped and duplicated the crimes they were originally arrested for . ’ |
| 5 | Whether one believes that ideas of morality determine the content of criminal law or that they instead serve as justification for the state or a social class to exert economic and political control , the relationship between law and morals is important . |
| 6 | Minimising — accepting that there are problems but denying that they are of any great significance or that they necessarily have any connection with alcohol or drug use : " An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than I do . " |
| 7 | This ‘ return to the sources ’ discovers either that such primitive celebrations are entirely divorced from modern sexuality , or that they always concealed a deathly horror . |
| 8 | We do not always realise what is at the root of our original fears , or that we habitually cope with conflict in this way at all . |
| 9 | Or that we never meet . |
| 10 | The Act provides that it is a defence to an action brought under section 2 that the damage was wholly due to the fault of the person suffering it or that he voluntarily assumed the risk thereof ( though a person employed as a servant by a keeper of the animal is not to be treated as accepting voluntarily risks incidental to his employment ) . |
| 11 | There is no evidence that memories of the school ever played much part in his life , or that he particularly enjoyed visiting it . |
| 12 | It is impossible that Matthew was mistaken or that he simply made up the verse as a climax to his birth story hoping that his readers would not notice . |
| 13 | It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that . |
| 14 | When Kenneth Clarke first told us of his ideas these and other flaws were so obvious that many of us assumed that either we had analysed the situation incorrectly or that he too had spotted the pitfalls and had the solutions up his sleeve . |
| 15 | ‘ Mind you , ’ he said , ‘ Mr Shildon did n't say he 'd been searching your property or that he ever believed you had his keys . |
| 16 | or that I ever said , We must jump into the sun , |
| 17 | There is the fear that it may be lost or stolen , or that you simply have n't enough with you . |
| 18 | It was the same hexagonal design as any of the thousands you can still see along the South Coast or that you suddenly come across in the wilds of East Anglia for no apparent reason until you realize that the fields you 're driving through were once airfields littered with empty Lucky Strike packets and B52 bombers . |
| 19 | If you have sex with men for other reasons , it is important that the man wears a condom ( for vaginal and anal intercourse ) or that you only have non-penetrative sex . |
| 20 | I was in complete agreement with the pathologist 's view … that death resulting from status asthmaticus is death due to ‘ natural causes ; ’ and since there was nothing to suggest , in my opinion ( then and now ) , that the death was ‘ violent or unnatural , ’ or that it otherwise fell within the provisions of section 19(4) of the Act [ of 1988 ] , I was satisfied , in all the circumstances , that an inquest was unnecessary . |
| 21 | This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event . |
| 22 | Nor that I thereby hope for immortality : |
| 23 | We should by now be familiar with the general formula for decomposing data : Data = Fit + Residual The process of smoothing time series also produces such a decomposition of the data except that we mainly use the alternative , more suggestive form of words . |
| 24 | The usual reduction to triangular form is by a pivotal condensation similar to that described in 2.2.1 , except that we only remove elements below the diagonal . |
| 25 | They have precious little in common , except that they both worked in the construction industry before journeying to London . |
| 26 | Other staff are laid off during holidays , except that they also work reduced hours ( approximately 50 per cent of the term-time totals ) for the last two weeks of July ( usually weeks 37–38 of the academic year ) . |
| 27 | Nothing , really , except that they also reckon it comes with a light pen … |
| 28 | Grindal worm are a dwarf form of white worm , which they look like , except that they only reach a length of half an inch . |
| 29 | Ministers , both presbyterian and Church of Ireland , suffer similar pressures in many other local communities , except that they often stay silent rather than risk conflict , personal hardship , or violence . |
| 30 | Nothing wrong with that , of course , except that they sometimes develop ridiculously romantic notions about figures from the past , and write ill-conceived letters to the national press which bring the Circle into disrepute . ’ |