Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 2 | I give all the children vitamin drops that I get from the clinic but I sometimes wonder whether they 're really necessary . |
| 3 | He is an intellectual man but since he has married , a woman who is quite the opposite of him , the reader often notices that he retreats to his library during the course of the book . |
| 4 | By 1989/90 the Exchequer met only 43.4 per cent , with a further 4 per cent coming from a central grant that reimbursed authorities for part of the rate rebates that they gave to poor households . |
| 5 | He accepts that it has to be traded off against the 25 per cent improvement in fuel consumption and longer engine life . |
| 6 | Duress that invalidates consent consists either of a credible threat to take substantial action against the agent or against a person or a cause that he values if he does not consent or in the taking of such actions against him or against persons or causes that he values with an offer to restore the situation if he does consent . |
| 7 | So far as overcoming your own tendencies to resist change , it is best to have some limbering up exercises that you inflict on yourself from time to time . |
| 8 | Schulz considers a number of explanations for the phenomenon she describes , and concludes that it arises from men 's prejudice against women and their fear of women 's ‘ natural ’ power or biological superiority . |
| 9 | There is a strong tradition in philosophy which holds that we start from knowledge of our own sensory states and build up from there . |
| 10 | Drafts that you made of the report and later improved or discarded should also be retained . |
| 11 | The representational theory of mind treats the explanation of mental life as a kind of engineering problem ; it starts from the inside , from the representational state , and asks how mental states interact with one another to produce something that we would call ‘ knowledge ’ ; the representational theorist proceeds like a sceptical philosopher who thinks that what figures in our mental life is not reality but our mental representations of it ( recall my saying the Fodor described his position as ‘ methodological solipsism ’ ) . |
| 12 | One popular religious writer who thinks that they believe in the same god is John Hick . |
| 13 | He also sent his brother a sketch of the little church at Turnham Green — together with a sketch of another church at Petersham — and he records that he returned to Turnham Green on a number of occasions subsequently . |
| 14 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 15 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 16 | With an increase of bland courtesy he insists that she stay in the car while he talks to the girl behind the Reception desk . |
| 17 | But he insists that it follows from it and others of the same kind that knowledge is impossible . |
| 18 | Has he forgotten , within the past hour and a half , the belly laughs that he got from his own Back Benchers with his stories of social security fraud ? |
| 19 | They are , so to speak , tied to their own tail — an intriguing thought if one grants that what happens in the social world depends on what people expect to happen . |
| 20 | The saying goes that everything comes to he who waits well they 've waited longer than most ’ |
| 21 | And it just so happens that I mentioned to one of my doormen that particular night that I could do with one of those machines to keep a careful check on my blood pressure . |
| 22 | Bill Mumford says that everybody goes on these trips comes back changed in some way … its a maturiing thing … and maybe it 's a lesson for all of us we should feel inspired by disabled people trying something remarkable |
| 23 | He says that they went into the deal with their eyes open , there is no way the council treated them unfairly . |
| 24 | Byrne says that they added to the confusion by jumping up and down and shouting with glee . |
| 25 | Thor Heyerdahl 's cherished notion that the Pacific islanders are descended from South American voyagers drifting westward does n't stand a chance against the genetic evidence , which says that they came from Asia . |
| 26 | She says that they banged on the doors , and got them out . |
| 27 | He says that they sample for dozens of chemicals — the Severn supplies drinking water so they have to be accurate . |
| 28 | He says that they spoke to Mr Morley and he agreed to come out . |
| 29 | She says that they need to be fed every two hours or so . |
| 30 | She says that everyone dreams of winning a medal , but at the moment she is just hoping to get there . |