Example sentences of "[adj] and that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most recent biographer has observed that ‘ because Aymer de Valence held the English earldom of Pembroke and spent his entire career in English service it is easy to forget that in origin he was almost entirely French and that he retained very close links with France throughout his life ’ . |
| 2 | But Liz revealed her hair was naturally curly and that she prefers to dry it straight . |
| 3 | But however one expresses it , all the evidence is that the quantum phenomenon and the uncertainty principle are unavoidable and that they occur in every branch of physics . |
| 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 | In 1600 , the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for numerous heresies , including the proposition that the universe is infinite and that it contains an infinite number of worlds . |
| 6 | So if you 've got children looking at mortgages , just tell them to be careful and that I think really my advice would be to , for anyone starting off a new mortgage now , to definitely go for repayment , until they 've sorted out what they 're doing , because if you cash an endowment within two years , if you ca n't keep up the payments , if you lose your job , then y you get nothing back . |
| 7 | Use a green pencil to underline all the foods or meals you normally eat that you think are nutritionally sound and that you do not want to change . |
| 8 | But what really brought it to light was your letter telling me I was contemptible and that you washed your hands of me ! |
| 9 | Now the city 's MP , Douglas French , says he believes their convictions were unsafe and that they have a powerful case for an appeal . |
| 10 | She was delighted that the coffee was real and that I had used a glass jug on a silver stand , where a nightlight kept it steaming . |
| 11 | It was also agreed that the gallery had been overheated and airless and that I had drunk too much . |
| 12 | A more recent commentator on Marx 's concept of ideology , Jorge Larrain , accepts that the concept is vague and that it has to be worked out from what little Marx wrote ( Larrain 1979 : 36 ) . |
| 13 | You know i i feeds into that idea I think that the the you know , people in Africa are impotent and that we have to put put into our pockets to help them when we 're destroying massive amounts of grain . |
| 14 | I was thinking for instance when you have generation of young men how do you , what 's the time left to something extreme can be done culturally and people can be sort of you know convinced that they 're right and that they go out there and get machine guns can be done culturally , whereas |
| 15 | Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties . |
| 16 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 17 | ‘ She said she was sorry and that she loved us and she just did n't realise what she had put all the people through . |
| 18 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |
| 19 | The Manchester Guardian critic noticed that Minton 's figures were becoming less formalised and that he had ‘ fastened on the banana tree almost as tightly as Sutherland had clasped the more uncomfortable thorn-tree to his bosom ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ She told him his clothes were awful and that she did n't like his schoolboyish haircut . ’ |
| 21 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 22 | Yeah but I mean you , there are times when you feel weak and that I mean |
| 23 | Your advantage is that you know Oldenburg , that you speak Russian , that you 're a trained professional and that you have an excellent cover . ’ |
| 24 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
| 25 | We know then that the legend is false and that it became attached to a much older custom , but what was the Horngarth itself and for what purpose was it erected ? |
| 26 | My husband says I am calmer and more relaxed and that I have had a much more positive outlook on life ! |
| 27 | ‘ I just hope it was quick and that they did n't suffer … ’ |
| 28 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 29 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 30 | ‘ I think so — as far as I can , bearing in mind that I 'm Jewish and that I 've never been remotely religious . |