Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pers pn] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her decision was said to follow demands from station heads that she increase her appearances from four to five mornings a week . |
| 2 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 3 | We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items . |
| 4 | What happens when ‘ he ’ moves in and I ca n't work at all hours , ca n't eat when I like , ca n't take a bath any time I like , when he insists that I visit his relatives ? |
| 5 | ‘ He insists that you meet his mother and discuss things — reasonably . ’ |
| 6 | I 've got one friend whose husband insists that she keep her stockings and push-up bra on during sex . |
| 7 | He does n't mean anything by it — it just so happens that he inflicts his pent-up frustrations on the person nearest to hand . |
| 8 | She says that they kept her awake at night , and climbed over the fences . |
| 9 | The Ecology Building Society argues that it is recreating the original grass-roots feel of a membership-owned mutual society , and says that it involves its members closely in the development of new savings accounts . |
| 10 | Mum says that it took her hours to look up all the verses . |
| 11 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
| 12 | He says that she told her husband , they discussed it and decided not to tell the police . |
| 13 | The newspaper says that she ends her speech with the words : ‘ There is no magic formula that will transform sorrow into happiness , intolerance into compassion , or war into peace . ’ |
| 14 | He says that he had his directions in prayer and reverence from the saint , and I have every reason to believe him . |
| 15 | Those of Mr. Green 's are veritable mountains , he says that he knows their anatomy and he is undoubtedly right . ’ |
| 16 | Goscelin says that he put his crown on the Winchester crucifix when he had supremacy over four kingdoms . |
| 17 | Matthew Paris says that he performed his duties with cunning , shamelessness and violence , and extorted from the northern landowners an ‘ incredible ’ and ‘ stupefying ’ amount of money . |
| 18 | Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc warns that it expects its results for the third quarter to March 31 to be at break-even or slightly below — it expects to increase reserves and allowances , take one-time charges , and accelerate accruals by a pre-tax total of $1.5m to $2m , and it expects third quarter revenues to be below year-ago revenues of $20.3m ; it blames a shift in the sales mix for the revenue shortfall — ‘ Given the current trend toward the LANtastic software only option , the company is cautious in its expectations over the next several quarters for recovery in revenues and earnings to the levels achieved in the first and second quarter of the fiscal year , ’ the company said — it also offers it with adaptors . |
| 19 | Each solicitor confirms that they hold their own client 's part of the contract in the agreed form ; agree forthwith to insert the agreed completion date . |
| 20 | What we know of the family shows that it enjoyed its privileges to the full , and shared a positive and happy lifestyle , without hardship , yet without vaunted excess — a balanced lifestyle , despite his indispositions . |
| 21 | Kevin Maxwell 's own statement of affairs shows that he values his Chelsea house at £750,000 though he has a £430,000 mortgage from City bankers Brown Shipley . |
| 22 | One Sunday I was so fed up with living on Kit Kats that I called my mum . |
| 23 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 24 | She recalls that she met her ex-husband , cameraman Danny Mindel , on a plane going to the Seychelles and , after chatting for ages , asked if she could kiss him : ‘ And when I kissed him I knew I was going to marry him . ’ |
| 25 | The prosecution alleges that he murdered his ex-wife some time between the 21st and 23rd of January 1973 — she was last seen alive on the 20th . |
| 26 | Even in these spiders , the simplest explanations for what they do requires that they assess their own fighting ability relative to that of their opponent . |
| 27 | ‘ Prudence ’ , claimed Sam Smiles , ‘ requires that we pitch our scale of living a degree below our means , rather than up to them : but this can only be done by carrying out faithfully a plan of living by which both ends may be made to meet . ’ |
| 28 | Our future requires that we focus our images on finding ways forward to a possible , tolerable and sharable society instead of wasting our time quarrelling with our allies and colleagues . |
| 29 | This development places extra demands upon the infant 's powers of attention and requires that she co-ordinate her behaviour with respect to both the object and the other person . |
| 30 | Modern life demands that we create our own dangers because so many traditional ones have been taken away from us . |