Sentence examples for That clauses from inspiring English sources

We then investigate the effect of allowing indeterminacy in a clause, and show that clauses with k indeterminate variables are as hard to learn as DNF.

(There are, of course, other ways of expressing thoughts a mere gesture can suffice but it will be useful to take "that" clauses to be standard).

Brandis on Sunday said that clauses in the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act contain "extremely loose" language that "provides a red carpet for vigilante litigation".

Big publishing houses argue that clauses like "in book form" or phrases that prohibit "competitive editions" preclude authors from publishing e-books through other parties.

Suppliers of military and commercial electronic and telecommunication equipment have also found that clauses specifying reliability and maintainability were being included in invitations to tender and in the subsequent contracts.

It proposed that clauses in future hotel and convention contracts provide that "if there is a boycott, strike, lockout, picketing or other labor dispute," the organization "will be released from all contractual obligations without charge or penalty".

Here we should note that that-clauses may occur in a variety of linguistic contexts, not limited to attitude- and truth-ascriptions.

In an attempt to defend the theory of direct reference, Shier (1996) argues that that-clauses do not provide relata for the belief relation but nonetheless designate propositions.

However, strictly speaking, the analysis leaves open the possibility that that-clauses designate propositions by virtue of the combined workings of the complementizer 'that' and the sentence immediately following it.

(A verb can take that-clause complements without taking NP complements, because that-clauses are not NPs).

Similarly, premises of some of these sound instances ascribe attitudes toward the designatum of a that-clauses, these designata would seem to be objects of attitudes.