Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recognizes that this willingness to fillet the intellectual and thematic from even the most ho-hum work is absent from the Anglo-Saxon world , yet he also thinks that he understands it because of his own ( despite the tennis lessons and jogging ) Jewishness . |
| 2 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And she says that she does what she can in her own way , she tries her best to do what she can to help . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | He says that he hopes they 've been able to reasure the people living nearby , and that the travellers will now quietly leave . |
| 9 | He says that he thinks they can all work together to promote each others farm attractions . |
| 10 | Dad says that he thinks he has the answer to my problem but he will have to consult with the Pastor tomorrow . |
| 11 | He says that he thinks it would be a pity if Dowty 's fell into the hands of TI |
| 12 | He says that he thinks it 's unlikely that it will hit ; in fact there 's less than a one in 10,000 chance . |
| 13 | He says that he feels it was a fair hearing . |
| 14 | Those of Mr. Green 's are veritable mountains , he says that he knows their anatomy and he is undoubtedly right . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The gap between Titania and Bottom , erotic excitement and the matter-of-fact , recurs with much more force here : The contrast is functional to the whole play , for from their first juxtaposition ( I.i ) Troilus ' super-charged verse ( like the music of Richard Strauss or Scriabin at their most sensuous ) shows that he over-dramatizes himself , in tune with the whole excessively emotional Trojan ethos . |
| 17 | Go to the Police Station and ask for him , please , perhaps if someone like you shows that he knows he 's missing they will do something . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Everything in his relation to his slaves shows that he treats them as more or less human — his humiliations of them , his disappointments , his jealousies , his fears , his punishments , his attachments . |
| 20 | So , unsurprisingly , she ensures that she does nothing to cross the ‘ important ’ people on which she is dependent . |
| 21 | Well she 's got yes she got a she she sleeps in a in a special place but what she does is she 's got a rug erm we 've got a a rug in front of the fire here that we bought back from the States , and everything she finds that she likes she brings into the lounge and puts on the rug . |
| 22 | He has stayed on the contract/corporate side of the fence ever since because he feels that it suits his style and temperament . |
| 23 | Although his lecture is curtailed by the fake fire alarm devised by the Czechoslovakian authorities ( itself an indication that the ironic force of his lecture has not been lost on the audience ) , Anderson 's calmness ( significantly indicated by Stoppard in his stage directions , p. 91 ) as he gathers up his papers , not only contrasts sharply with his panic in scene six , but indicates that he feels he has made an effective protest . |
| 24 | If the person indicates that he has nothing more to say the officer shall without delay cease to question him about that offence . … |
| 25 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 26 | Infra-red light reaches the Earth in significant amounts , and its effect on the molecules of both living and inanimate objects is to vibrate them , which means that it raises their temperature . |
| 27 | This means that he intends us to develop the character of Christ . |
| 28 | The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ . |
| 29 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 30 | This point includes a person who falsely reports that he knows who is responsible for a particular crime or where stolen property etc. is hidden . |