Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] that " in BNC.

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1 And everyone knows that such ‘ idol-worshippers ’ abound in the ‘ East ’ .
2 And everyone knows that Siban has no desire to sit on the Dragon Throne .
3 And everyone knows that really he is advising medieval kings and nineteenth-century Prime Ministers .
4 The fact of the matter is , carp are an endangered species , and everyone knows that the only diet they will accept if the winter has been especially harsh and the spring turns wet before St Oursin 's Day is that of young minced Wolf Cub .
5 Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ?
6 The attendance against Middlesbrough yesterday of 25,093 was lower than expected and its seems that most supporter with the necessary three vouchers and Gold Cards will qualify for Cup final tickets .
7 So far we have considered the development of marriage blueprints in a way which does not take account of sexual differences and which assumes that learning takes place in the context of a two-person relationship , principally between a child and one or other of his parents .
8 It is also confusion between a proper assurance based on experience and the insight deriving from it , and the dogmatism which so easily follows but is distinct from it , and which insists that what we happen to know is the only thing that matters — what others have discovered or had revealed to them is unimportant .
9 There is an important strand in English thought , which is traceable to Hobbes 's idea of civitas , and which believes that the only way to preserve society is by acknowledging a perpetual sovereign power .
10 Seeking through German unity to contribute to the unification of Europe and to the building of a peaceful European order in which borders no longer divide and which ensures that all European nations can live together in a spirit of mutual trust ,
11 The process of rehearsal draws upon a training which often reaches back into the singer 's boyhood , which provides him with the directed quickness of mind and the vocal stamina he requires , and which ensures that the choral results are generally quite passable and are sometimes excellent despite the constant absences , deputizations , hirings and firings that always threaten the homogeneity of what can be achieved .
12 What these approaches have most in common , however , is that they challenge a view of education which is concerned only with male experience , and which treats that experience as the ‘ norm ’ .
13 There is a system of spatio-temporal relations in which we ourselves have a place and which provides that unified framework within which every particular is uniquely related to every other , and where the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity has a perfectly valid and immediately intelligible application .
14 While Morgan is especially interested in the gens as a stage in the history of kinship which predates the appearance of the family , and which shows that matrilineal descent preceded patrilineal descent , Marx stresses rather its significance as proof of the existence of organizing principles ( especially as regards property ) which were opposite to those of capitalism .
15 Anything other than an uncritical acceptance is a direct challenge to the idea of the rule of law which has sustained the police since their inception and which argues that the replication of a known system of order is the best means of containing those who need to be controlled .
16 Anyone who is interested in the human side of innovation , and who suspects that the management of change is a subtle business , about which there is always more to be learned , might find something useful here .
17 It is a constant of any Minister 's experience — my hon. Friend referred to his experience as a Minister — that when a new scheme is introduced , there will always be somebody who did the same thing on his own initiative in the previous year and who feels that those who benefit from the newly introduced scheme are receiving an unfair advantage over the individual who took the real risk and did it himself .
18 It is a first-hand account by someone who has met and talked with many of the creators of modern quantum theory , and who remarks that by the 1970s ‘ my collection of notes and transcripts of tape recordings of conversations , discussions and interviews had become quite large ’ .
19 There is a defence for a young man under 24 who has not previously been charged with a similar offence and who believes that the girl is 16 years old .
20 If the approved accounts do not comply with the Act , every director who was a party to their approval and who knows that they do not comply or is reckless as to whether or not they comply is guilty of an offence and every director at the time the accounts were approved is taken to be a party to their approval unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to prevent their approval .
21 S.61D. ( 1 ) Any person who has sexual intercourse with another person without the consent of the other person and who knows that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse shall be liable to penal servitude for 7 years or , if the other person is under the age of 16 years , to penal servitude for 10 years .
22 that 's right , and who knows that when we go into Smiths in Woking it might not be so busy
23 And she banks that , she never touches that .
24 And she warns that introducing job evaluation almost certainly means throwing out clinical grading .
25 And she warns that ‘ any involvement in boys ' games can be contaminating ’ ( ibid . ) .
26 Even more importantly , there is every reason to believe , with Mary Midgley , that the basic assumption behind cultural relativism/behaviourism that human beings are totally plastic and devoid of innate structuration is false : ‘ Sensible psychologists have tended more and more to admit that people do have some genetically fixed tendencies ’ and she continues that ‘ What makes this admission hard , is the very strong impression still prevalent that we have to choose between considering these tendencies and considering outside conditions ’ ( 1979 : 20 ) .
27 and she uses that you know and she makes rugs and
28 Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul .
29 And she says that at the moment she 's more interested in just having fun than dating .
30 She had given me this book , Period , and she says that how you feel about your first period affects you all your life , it affects your self-image , so it 's very important .
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