Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING our report of an accident in which a young girl was injured in a road accident , the driver concerned , Patrick White , who lives in Jenner Way , Alton , has asked us to make clear that he defends his manner of driving and ‘ was not to blame ’ . |
| 2 | From the words of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State , it is clear that he regards it as vital that King 's Cross should go ahead as an essential part of the entire project . |
| 3 | Poststructuralists aspire to remove what they regard as the arbitrary distinctions between literature , criticism , theory , and philosophy , and Geoffrey Hartman has made it clear that he believes what he writes to be worthy of the esteem and attention normally given to ‘ creative ’ writing . |
| 4 | The reason we know that God recognises this dimension in the human personality is that he goes to such great lengths to make it very clear that he loves us , and one of his primary commands to us is that we must love one another . |
| 5 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 6 | Looking at the legal aid scheme overall , it is clear that it offers nothing new in the system for the delivery of legal services . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's unproven technology , and Microsoft has not made it clear that it wants it as a server ’ . |
| 8 | It is possible that he achieves his object . |
| 9 | Already in 1926 ( The New Republic , 30 June ) Tate was obliged — faced with the aridity in diction and imagery of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ — to concede that ‘ It is possible that he has nothing more to say in poetry ’ . |
| 10 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 11 | At the start of the contact the need to be stroked is so strong that it suppresses their fear . |
| 12 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 13 | Its unique lightweight design is incredibly simple — so simple that it makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before ! |
| 14 | The dream can seem so real that he believes himself to be wide awake . |
| 15 | So how would we find an outside correspondence for jealousy , a way of writing about it that would make it real for the reader , so real that it puts him/her in touch with his/her own jealousy ? |
| 16 | That was the attitude of those hon. Members when they were obscure Back Benchers and I am convinced that it remains their attitude now that they are Ministers at the very heart of the Government . |
| 17 | If the theory that DNA and its copying machinery arose spontaneously is so improbable that it obliges us to assume that life is very rare in the universe , and may even be unique to Earth , our first resort is to try to find a more probable theory . |
| 18 | ‘ She had a very detailed knowledge of Enya 's music , and it was obvious that she plays it a lot . ’ |
| 19 | Marlboros have become the alternative to hard currency — safer than dollars , which the ordinary citizen is forbidden to have , and more useful than the rouble , so soft that it buys nothing worth having . |
| 20 | It prepared them for exactly the kind of material they can expect to see on the day — and because it is written by the examiners themselves , you can be sure that it tells you exactly what the examiners are looking for ! |
| 21 | It 's er it is n't it is n't everyday language , and I 'm not sure that it helps us express what we really want to say . |
| 22 | ( 3 ) Invent a title in two parts ( as in section 1.6 ) , making sure that it indicates your attitude to the subject matter . |
| 23 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 24 | And if anything happens to me , I want you to promise to make sure that he inherits my money . ’ |
| 25 | Briefly he paused , then , ‘ The next time you see him , while letting him down gently , you will make sure that he knows you do n't love him . ’ |
| 26 | If he is an experienced gardener , you have to make sure that he sets himself achievable targets , and does not become over-ambitious . |
| 27 | Jeremy settles Kate on a rattan sofa with a whisky , flicks on the stereo and then sits down himself at the other end of the sofa , making sure that she notices his careful maintenance of physical space between them . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , even in Minnie , who 's so unlikely that she 's probably true — there probably has been someone who grew up as she did , saloon-wise and card-sharping yet quite sure that she wants nothing to do with the kind of messing around she 's seen under her parents ’ roof . |
| 29 | I am sure that she knows what I mean . |
| 30 | Poor child , it 's terrible that she loves me so much . ’ |