Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your first battle will be changing the routine , gently but firmly so that everyone knows that things will be different from now on . |
| 2 | He had hinted as much more than once , just vaguely , just enough to entice me so that I want to ask what , so that he knows that I want to ask . |
| 3 | These changes show how financial pressures brought about the collapse of the early Roman coinage system ; so much so that it seems that for a time the Roman state had to fight the war on credit given by some of its citizens . |
| 4 | Not so strange , perhaps if one reflects that all moral dramas need villains as well as heroes , and that Leavis above all offered moral drama . |
| 5 | He claims that one can ‘ understand narrative better if one knows that a character is a noun , and the action a verb ’ . |
| 6 | Only if one believes that the prospect of privatization is the only way to improve management performance in nationalized industries can one attribute the benefit to privatization itself . |
| 7 | Only if he feels that a private sector or B R management would be er frightened off bidding , and he knew that there were viable bids in play |
| 8 | ( 4 ) The sheriff may uphold an appeal under this section only if he considers that the licensing board in arriving at its decision : a ) erred in law ; b ) based its decision on any incorrect material fact ; c ) acted contrary to natural justice ; or d ) exercised its discretion in an unreasonable manner . |
| 9 | No matter for how long a period lifers are detained , the Home Secretary will release those people only if he considers that it is safe to do so . |
| 10 | It the statement is taken in this way , a hearer should assent to it only if he believes that I have the belief . |
| 11 | ‘ So if it appears that the Princess has contrived to bring her own marriage down then that is not the case at all , ’ says Penny . |
| 12 | So if he thinks that Colin do have six working for him , and he 's got enough work for six , then surely there 's gon na be plenty of work for two of 'em . |
| 13 | There is a danger of over-simplification here , especially if one forgets that such traits as introvert/extrovert and optimist/pessimist are , at best , rough indications — they are continua , not two set points . |
| 14 | ‘ If a company is serious about stress then it has to address the issues raised , ’ commented , a chartered clinical psychologist working as a consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick , especially if it emerges that certain internal working practices and management are the major factors in staff stress levels . |
| 15 | So avoid taking a vacation soon after you have acquired a puppy , especially if it means that you will need to place it in kennels . |
| 16 | ( 1 ) ( a ) A licensing board shall refuse an application of the type described in subsection ( 2 ) below if it finds that one or more of the following grounds for refusal , being competent grounds , applies to it ( in ) that the applicant , or the person on whose behalf or for whose benefit the applicant will manage the premises or , in the case of an application to which section 11 of this Act applies , the applicant or the employee or agent named in the application is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence ; ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not suitable or convenient for the sale of alcoholic liquor , having regard to their location , their character and condition , the nature and extent of the proposed use of the premises , and the persons likely to resort to the premises ; ( c ) that the use of the premises for the sale of alcoholic liquor is likely to cause undue public nuisance , or a threat to public order and safety ; ( d ) that , having regard to the facilities of the same or similar kind already available in the locality , or to facilities of the same or similar kind , in respect of which the provisional grant of a new licence is in force , which are to be provided in the locality , the grant of an application would result in the Over-provision of such facilities ; and otherwise shall grant the application . |
| 17 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
| 18 | ( vii ) Where the chairman holds a proxy requiring him to vote for a particular resolution , if no one else proposes that resolution , he must do so unless he considers that there is good reason for not doing so ( r 6.89 ) . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman has for some time been against the original fast rail link through Kent and south London , and we have learnt tonight that he is against the current project , apparently because he believes that all British Rail 's money should be spent on saving his neck by improving the lousy commuter service that his constituents have had to tolerate for 13 years of Tory misrule — to use a well-known phrase from a couple of decades back . |
| 20 | ‘ a judge has not and should not appear to have any responsibility for the institution of prosecutions ; nor has he any power to refuse to allow a prosecution to proceed merely because he considers that , as a matter of policy , it ought not to have been brought . |
| 21 | These three factors must be considered together because it seems that both parental mental illness and parental separation or divorce may have a particularly damaging effect on the children if they are associated with prolonged overt marital discord , especially where the child becomes directly involved . |
| 22 | ‘ The President wants to go out , talk directly to the American people and explain to them how these things work together because he believes that they 're ready to hear the truth , ’ said the White House press secretary , Dee Dee Myers . |
| 23 | Common sense suggests that a person who submits to an act only because he believes that otherwise he will be over-powered and have it done to him anyway does not consent in law , even though the force necessary to overpower him will be small and non-injurious . ’ |
| 24 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 25 | So long as he remembers that , when mounting a picket in his opponents ' penalty area , he is only allowed a maximum of six operatives on the line , he should be able to enjoy free and frank access to the other side 's position . |
| 26 | He will never be content , so long as he knows that he is in our debt . ’ |
| 27 | Omitting his radical change of direction ( i.e. of subject ) in his second year , it represents a demand of surrealist proportions , especially when one considers that alongside these he was reading French , Latin , Mathematics , Philosophy and History . |
| 28 | Radio frequency ( r.f. ) circuits can also have their own quirks , especially when one considers that two adjacent copper tracks can act as an air-spaced capacitor ! |
| 29 | Thus , the views of the inspectorate are under-represented , especially when one considers that , except for relatively informal verbal comments through the Senior English Inspector , the General Inspectors for each school make no input at all , while all five DCSLs make lengthy written recommendations which are reinforced by the chairmanship of the ACL:E&SS . |
| 30 | One is led to ask whether it is the attention to and general nature of such claims that first needs explaining , especially when it appears that they derive from such a specific social group , namely those in a western academic sub-culture who could arguably be said to have their own interests at stake . |