Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What will her reaction be when she knows that her bright boy , while patting and stroking her and kissing her brow and her blue lips , must have been laughing up his sleeve at her , and thinking what a clever boy he is to be able to live in her fine house and have a big say in her business , while at the same time running a mistress on the side . ’ |
| 2 | The lasting impression of these accounts is that everyone agrees that there was a ‘ permissive age ’ , or a process of change that can be described as ‘ permissive ’ , but that no-one can actually agree what constituted ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 3 | What does stand out is that everyone believes that the profession , its standards and its aims , matter , and they all feel an excitement about the job of acting . |
| 4 | view is that one hopes that my hopes are that of the direct report you er worked for erm is equal and competent and is erm in a sense courageous and brave and that they realize that sometimes to get the best results you have to do things which are perhaps challenging and orthodox |
| 5 | Stated in these simple terms , the anti-cruelty position 's most obvious weakness is that it assumes that we already know that trapping wild animals is justified , if only it is done ‘ as humanely as possible ’ . |
| 6 | The only real problem with this analysis is that it assumes that this is an unwitting decision by the individuals involved . |
| 7 | A more important problem with this treatment of the results is that it assumes that any particular rating means the same for all subjects . |
| 8 | The major criticism of this approach is that it assumes that all information about the organisation is kept in documents . |
| 9 | A third objection to the confessional approach is that it assumes that religion provides the adequate answer to the dilemmas facing society . |
| 10 | One problem with the adaptive expectations hypothesis is that it presumes that people do not learn from their past mistakes . |
| 11 | The bad news is that it appears that the Lundy company is not making enough money to cover its costs and is looking at ways of making the island more ‘ commercial . ’ |
| 12 | An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility . |
| 13 | The advantage of the group system is that it ensures that members of the respective parties put forward clear cut views at the meetings of the council . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most important aspect of the scheme is that it ensures that guidance staff are not deployed as disciplinarians . |
| 15 | One of the dangers then in making a link between Spenser and certain current perspectives is that it suggests that Spenser 's view of England and Ireland is a founding discourse which iterates a cultural conflict intrinsic to English experience . |
| 16 | In the case of the simple penal code , the essential reason it is in the interest of a firm in this case to carry out the threat of punishment is that it believes that if it does not it itself will be punished . |
| 17 | An important aspect of the Esso case is that it illustrates that the restraint of trade doctrine is not simply applicable to those restraints which continue after the end of the contract period . |
| 18 | The rationale for this quantity rule is that it implies that no agents are forced to buy or sell quantities in excess of their wishes , so the rule preserves the principle of voluntary exchange . |
| 19 | The irony of this fascinating book is that it shows that Charlie Francis was doing very well as a coach without giving drugs to his athletes . |
| 20 | But the thing is that it seems that we 're a cultural the way the system is set up |
| 21 | The interest of this case is that it indicates that a sentence of detention in a young offender institution can be justified under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4A) ( b ) , notwithstanding the fact that the offender was originally dealt with for the offences by means of a probation order . |
| 22 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 23 | This is because it assumes that only one of the candidates in each position is correct , so the assignment of scores to words has to be delayed until the maximum for any given position is known . |