Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes I go out and pick up strange men in clubs because that seems to fit the self-image that I 've adopted — I do n't know if that makes sense .
2 The churn rate is now down to eleven percent , the result of positive action that we 've taken there and we expect to add a million homes during this year and the cable audience I am pleased to say is growing still very very slowly er but that should help as well .
3 So I hope that you will agree or confirm the action that we 've taken in expressing those sorts of views .
4 Erm , in the point that was raised from the London region , talking about resources in dealing with er regional health and safety officers and their time , part of the er document itself , is looking at consultation , so that the resource implications and the necessary action that we have to take in identifying priorities , deals with those things and those things are now opened up to discussion , er by accepting the report , and we 'll be looking at that over this next year .
5 My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) .
6 The Home Secretary is receiving a disproportionate amount of attention from the press for the action that he has taken .
7 We have been encouraged to hear from the president of the National Licensed Victuallers Association that he has seen some softening in the brewers ' approach since our meetings with them .
8 I 'm only thinking that you 've got somebody counting ?
9 ‘ I 've been trying to get it into his thinking that he has to do more running , that he has to fight more and that there are defensive duties he has to do . ’
10 It 's only on Innsbruck that we 've done it because that 's what the market demands .
11 I 'll be all sweet penitence and grief that I 've dared set my will against his .
12 Because if we continue with the housing stock that we 've got , then families living in high rise flats are never ever gon na have the opportunity to own their own house with a garden so the children can play .
13 You got it same time as I got that one , that 's last year 's card that we 've got .
14 Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch .
15 On many occasions in our study we found a sharp contrast between the professionals ' perception that a high degree of consensus had been reached and the parents ' perception that they had agreed to a course of action because they saw no other real choice , particularly if the urgent needs of the child and other family members were to be quickly met .
16 The half-dozen letters from Summerchild that I have found scattered through the porridge oats box seem to be replies to letters from Serafin , but not one of Serafin 's letters has yet come to light .
17 I very much hope that the work that we are already doing will lead to initiatives being taken by those countries as a result of the guidance that we have given at local government , as well as national , level .
18 The guidance that I have referred to is , as it says , guidance to the court and to practitioners in every discipline , but it is authoritative guidance and valuable guidance which family proceedings courts should make clear that they have had regard to when they are arriving at or announcing their decision .
19 By fortunate chance , often a major factor in war , Hawke , on the afternoon of 16 November , learned from a victualling ship which was returning empty from taking supplies to the blockading force that it had sighted the French fleet the previous day .
20 Doyle climbed into the car carrying the doll that the girl had been painting , and the ring that they had argued about .
21 Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home .
22 That 's , that 's true , eh , I mean the alloy in the other ones have to be quite crafty when you get up to twenty two carat for example and eh , very eh , eh , large chunk of gold in it , and it can indeed be very soft , but then you see that 's an eighteen carat ring that I 've had for , worn , all the time for twenty four years
23 You may want to go back to your original data and indicate what you want a certain sound to be ow that you have checked it , and from now on you would use correct and consistent symbolisation .
24 A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years .
25 She had gestured towards the bedroom that he had shown her shortly before .
26 The other gentleman to whom I referred , Mr. Williams , was deported some little while ago , it being cheaper to deport him than prosecute him for the gross fraud that he has perpetrated against the United Kingdom .
27 Tell the President that you have read about their case , that their trial was unfair — even the Appeal Court agrees on this — and ask that they are released immediately .
28 Tell the President that you have read about Abd Al-Ru'uf 's allegation that he was tortured , and about his lawyer 's complaint .
29 He makes the point that the love of God is not an emotion that we have to drum up in ourselves .
30 He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness .
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