Example sentences of "[that] [subord] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Shaw LJ said " It is not the law that where confidentiality exists it is terminated or eroded by adventitious publicity . |
| 2 | It seemed that once people met him they decided they were better off having him as a friend than an enemy . |
| 3 | I knew that cos Lewis picked it up . |
| 4 | She knew that if Phoebe needed her , if she could even imagine that Phoebe might ever need her , she would have no problem , no problem at all , dealing with Fenna . |
| 5 | He looked in her direction and they exchanged smiles and Ruth somehow felt that if Steve thought she was in trouble and needed bailing out he would come over immediately . |
| 6 | She said that if Constanza went it would break her heart . |
| 7 | It follows that if teachers believe they are incompetent or impotent in these matters , they will accept and expect that the proper strategy is to pass on the problems to suitably qualified colleagues . |
| 8 | He 's worried that if Zekel knows he has a Porsche , the Jew will drive a harder bargain and the haggling between them — which is already prolonged — will become interminable . |
| 9 | She had never felt so wretched and she vowed that if Maggie recovered she would make it up to her somehow . |
| 10 | And , in an argument utterly characteristic of the mercantilist view of a conflict-ridden world , Norris raised the bogey of the old rival France ; he claimed that France 's naval power had been so strengthened by her own involvement in the slave trade that if Britain discontinued it not only would her commercial prosperity decline but she would lose naval predominance . |
| 11 | In many countries the government stimulates such enterprises by providing some start-up capital , but the spokesman for our government came across very poorly , with totally negative comments to the effect that if inventors thought they could rely on the government for help , they were wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ She is probably afraid that if Anthony likes you too much she will be excluded , ’ she said slowly through the pain . |
| 13 | so and not only that if Gary meets me up the train station we can go straight into town on our own , leave him with Pat . |
| 14 | Fawcett said that this sounded very important and that if Pons sent it to him he would rush it through . |
| 15 | And i from a technical point of view I would support my case by saying that if OPCAS use it , it 's good enough for us if it 's good enough for OPCAS . |
| 16 | Hazel suspected that if Fiver felt they ought to cross the river , it might be dangerous not to . |
| 17 | Charles Trevelyan , founder of the UDC , spoke for a substantial body of opinion when he moved the resolution in a spirit of revolutionary pacifism : ‘ … the rulers must know that if war comes they will fight with a divided nation . |
| 18 | Hard-won working conditions and employment protection are now routinely jettisoned by many cowboy operators , secure in the knowledge that if workers complain they can be shown the door , outside which is a four-deep queue of would-be replacements willing to thole all manner of demands provided there is the prospect of regular work at whatever depressed rates . |
| 19 | It is already being said that if Wales keep them below 30 points it will be a moral victory . |
| 20 | The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them . |
| 21 | Birds leave their roosts and take to the skies ; monkeys jump away through the branches to find breakfast , and antelope disperse once more over the open plains to graze , knowing that if danger comes they stand a good chance of seeing it before it gets lethally close . |
| 22 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's certainly true that if people suggest they will go to the appeal procedure then we will do almost everything we can to avoid that , which means in some cases we 're letting people get away with something that you would n't let others get away with , simply because they 're being difficult — well , not being difficult , they would be just exercising their rights . ’ |
| 24 | This is three elements out of about nine or ten , now if they could be persuaded that if people phoned us up and said blah blah blah I want to learn this we could say well Telford will let you do this one unit of the course , they learn the one unit of the course , they say right I 'd now like to learn about let's say photography and we find out that Queen Margaret 's College in their course have an element on photography so we point the student in that direction and then they do this hold on a second |
| 25 | I knew that if Sandy won it gave him exemptions in the US the next year , the US Masters , Tournament of Champions , World Series . |
| 26 | He said that if Ramsey accepted he had it in mind to recommend Donald Coggan for the see of York . |
| 27 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 28 | Blanche caught his look and explained smoothly to the inspector that since Eddy said he was going to bring along a guest so would she . |
| 29 | She felt certain then that whether Naylor called her back to the new extension to tell her to deny that she was engaged to him or not , she would without fail , before five o'clock that day , be summoned to account for Travis 's unexpected easy acceptance of her getting engaged to someone else . |
| 30 | They knew what he was referring to , and Kate resolved that whether Stephen liked it or not she was going to tell Mrs Blakey . |