Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But the next day Mr Clarke insisted that nothing had in fact changed from the NHS White Paper because it had not talked of cash limits , only of firm budgets .
2 North of the village towards Matlock Bath is Masson Mill , built by Richard Arkwright ( q.v. ) in 1738 as if to prove that nothing succeeds like success .
3 the software program from Aldus Corporation that everyone associates with desktop publishing due to its immense success on the Apple Macintosh .
4 Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event .
5 It helps the conversation become familiar , so that everyone feels at home in it , and feels able to contribute to it , without fear of being thought inadequate .
6 There will be two sittings for tea and to avoid chaos we must ensure that everyone goes to tea at their allotted time .
7 The one thing that everyone knows about quantum theory is that it contains Heisenberg 's uncertainty principle acting as a limit upon our powers of exact knowledge .
8 But it was only later , when I was forced to admit that , at the time of writing , I had begun to become anorexic again , that I realised in addition how closely the central character 's circumstances resembled those of anorexia nervosa .
9 I was offered a pair of shoes for about one third more than the market price , and I was so much in need of shoes that I fell into temptation .
10 that I fell in love with
11 He told TODAY soon after the tragedy : ‘ My only crime is that I fell in love with another girl . ’
12 Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time .
13 ‘ It would seem that I fell in love with an illusion .
14 ‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’
15 However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual .
16 I find it very difficult to accept the immigrant people and children that I come into contact with .
17 ‘ Always it feels real ; something that I saw in life . ’
18 ‘ Why did you insist that I go to work for you … ?
19 Furthermore , bearing in mind the reservations about changes in different varieties that I expressed in section 5.2 above , the early date suggested here for the loss of the velar fricative does not affect the fact that there are dialects of English ( in Lowland Scotland ) which have not yet lost the fricative .
20 and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you .
21 It was in October of that year that I got into trouble again , the first time since ‘ 78 .
22 I gave them some er jackets and trousers that I got in stock down there that 's that 's that 's it then yeah .
23 She was clearly mentally disturbed , and the reason that I got in touch with the legal project was to see if there 's anything that could be done by them to start giving her some way of getting in touch , getting to solve her problem .
24 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Is not the Hon. Gentleman aware that I said in Committee that the advisers were Kenneth Ryden and Partners ?
25 It was with these modern pariahs that I began during school holidays to interest myself .
26 Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with .
27 And I said , ‘ Well , why did you read it , it 's hardly a secret that I write about sex . ’
28 I 'll cooperate as far as I can , on the understanding of course that I remain in control — full control — of anything to do with my project .
29 ‘ The other vital thing for me is that I keep on learning .
30 It just completely changed everything that I thought about music .
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