Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been argued that these have been entrenched as , in terms of the political realities of the situation , it is inconceivable that Parliament would repeal them . |
| 2 | I have done my best to understand and respond to the desire of people in Cardiff that the scheme should be set out in the Bill so that Parliament can consider it . |
| 3 | It seems unlikely that experience can take us outside of the closed circle of experience to reveal that upon which experience — experience in general , rather than particular experience — is based . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I hope that sentence will deter you from any more writing on walls ’ |
| 5 | I 'd look better blonde and I assumed that I could wash the colour out before my parents saw : I must have been naive to think that bleach would affect my hair differently from anything else . |
| 6 | Thus , whilst women who smoke may know that smoking could damage their health , there is no evidence that they experienced smoking as having any immediate impact on their self-perceived strength and fitness . |
| 7 | Mervyn lowered his voice , as if hoping that Ianthe might say something derogatory . |
| 8 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 9 | ‘ They said on the radio that toothpaste could make you ill . |
| 10 | I almost wondered if she was afraid that daylight would turn her into dust . |
| 11 | ‘ A high level of government funding is the only way that industry can find its way through this maze , ’ he said . |
| 12 | As I shall illustrate later , that cost could not be met , and I do not think that Labour would do it . |
| 13 | The Dumbarton MP , John McFall , shadow Scottish home affairs spokesman , accused the Government of failing to carry out its manifesto commitment to change the law and stated that Labour would introduce its own bill if the Government refused to make space for the legislation . |
| 14 | Mr Gould said that Labour must broaden its appeal rather than simply change its leader . |
| 15 | They are equally brought up to believe that marriage will provide them with a partner in whom to trust , who will love , protect and respect them . |
| 16 | Sometimes I think that girl will break his heart . ’ |
| 17 | Most often , the car parks , protecting your customer 's property , offering him or her protection ; the fire exits ( not to stop people getting in because they are already alarmed but to check that they are not obstructed ) ; the reception or foyer and other public areas so that management can see which parts of the hotel are being used by guests and roughly by how many , which is very useful if there is an emergency and you have to clear the building ; and finally as a good old-fashioned deterrent and for detection . |
| 18 | It may also be that further relevant information comes to light after the original decision was taken which , in your opinion , means that management should reconsider its attitude . |
| 19 | He was more confident than his first ‘ angel ’ that heaven would provide him with the best of both worlds , and he wrote jauntily to his second wife that he had prayed that |
| 20 | If the former , she would wish to be very certain of the value of the prize and fully confident that war will secure it . |
| 21 | We are optimistic that restoration will help it enormously ’ . |
| 22 | Do n't smack her , as this only underlines the fact that aggression can help you get your own way . |
| 23 | Where an earlier generation of natural theologians had assumed that Nature would heal itself , Marsh emphasized that some acts of destruction exceeded the earth 's recuperative powers : |
| 24 | I would not forsake ye , I would not forsake you for sweetest of scenes : For sweetest of gardens that nature could make me I would not forsake ye , dear valleys and greens : Tho' Nature ne'er dropped ye a cloud-resting mountain , Nor waterfalls tumble their music so free , Had Nature denied ye a bush , tree , or fountain , Ye still had been loved as an Eden by me . |
| 25 | But just as a business can not go on year after year ignoring a fall in cash flow … so too the Government can not keep on running up debt in the hope that recovery will solve our problems . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ Just as a business can not go on year after year ignoring a fall in cash flow caused by a downturn in the economy , so too the Government can not keep on running up debt in the hope that recovery will solve our problems . ’ |
| 27 | I wondered why I had n't had the wit to take the starveling cat to Mother Joseph as soon as I knew that Nour might kill it . |
| 28 | At the same time , separatist politicsans were predicting that ETA would make its first action a kidnapping rather than a shooting or bombing . |
| 29 | He had no idea where he was , except that it must be somewhere in the wilds of Wales , well hidden from any possibility of rescue ; and he took his first unwilling look about him in the conviction that captivity could mean nothing better than solitude , close confinement and squalor . |
| 30 | The same opposition of criticism and scholarship and the same demand that criticism should concern itself with specifically literary properties are the inspiration of two of the best-known theoretical products of the New Criticism , the essays on ‘ The intentional fallacy ’ and ‘ The affective fallacy ’ written jointly by Wimsatt and Beardsley and published in the Sewanee Review in 1946 and 1949 respectively ( now in Wimsatt 1958 : 1 — 39 ) . |