Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pron] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He accepts that it has to be traded off against the 25 per cent improvement in fuel consumption and longer engine life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But he insists that it follows from it and others of the same kind that knowledge is impossible . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The saying goes that everything comes to he who waits well they 've waited longer than most ’ |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | She says that everyone dreams of winning a medal , but at the moment she is just hoping to get there . |
| 12 | He says that whatever needs to be done should be done to stop anything similar happening . |
| 13 | Senior research metallurgist for the Cutlery and Allied Trade Research Association , Alan Medlock , says that it depends on what you call 13/0 . |
| 14 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 15 | For instance then , the very last point being made up in that rose thing , is , it says that it protects against sicknesses and evils . |
| 16 | It also says that it has to be a ‘ national treasure under national legislation in the context of Article 36 of the Treaty ’ , thus by and large respecting each country 's right to define a national treasure as it pleases . |
| 17 | Thank you Chairman I , I actually agreed with those not so much that erm I , I have problems with erm other matters , it is more extra to be examined and because it actually says that it has to be examined once , and will therefore be re-examined erm , erm I am sure if it should be examined they have to put exact what it means examine in and before and as you say er you will be the first to say . |
| 18 | He says that it needs to be tested . |
| 19 | The survey says that there appears to be no one explanation why the fees should be so low , particularly as other companies ' fees do relate to their size . |
| 20 | She says that she wants to be a wildlife photographer . |
| 21 | She says that he thinks of her as Mum . |
| 22 | If a person goes to the town hall and says that he qualifies for a discount , the authority will need proof . |
| 23 | Steve Chapman says that he comes from the Shennington club and Nigel was a member there … he jokes that mansell was a big an idiot as all of them … breaking in the wrong place and that sort of thing |
| 24 | Althusser faces this question , but warns that it has to be carefully formulated if it is to illuminate the process of the production of knowledges . |
| 25 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
| 26 | When an apostrophe comes just before an s at the end of a word , it shows that something belongs to that word . |
| 27 | Although called a village , an examination of its plan on the ground shows that it consists in fact of three or four farmsteads , almost identical in their units , among their garden plots . |
| 28 | Table 6.4 shows that there appears to be a turning point around 1960 : before then manufacturing employment , and the broader ‘ industrial ’ employment , had been growing faster than overall employment , whereas over the period 1960–64 ( which , taken as a whole , shows a rapid growth of overall employment ) the manufacturing and industrial sectors showed only a marginal growth of employment , therefore accounting for a declining share of the total . |
| 29 | A further gloss on this quieter side of his character appears during Johnson 's own reflection in ( rather than upon ) Montrose — where he comments that he has by now had an opportunity to compare Scotland 's beggars with others he has seen . |
| 30 | Grayling reckons that he has about another two years of research to do before he can come up with a conclusive report . |