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Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that " in BNC.

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1	In a true political democracy , such a declaration is of course perfectly allowable ; and none the less so for least that the general interest will not suffer from the exercise of the right ; and that the loss or diminution of any other opposed rights can be justified .
2	She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all .
3	I saw how the well-documented material containing the truth about Fayed that we began to put before the DTI was received in embarrassed silence .
4	I have to say that I know for definite that the force at that time only possessed two shields , er we kept one shield in the South of the county at and one shield North of the county and and hence that is why I went to the headquarters in the morning .
5	We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep .
6	Are things now so bad for Labour that glancing over the assembled new talent , one says ‘ Watch Netherthwaite , he could be a future leader of the opposition ’ ?
7	Secondary school is , after all , nearer to life after school , and it is about this that schools are increasingly urged to think .
8	As for breast feeding , I feel so strongly about this that I can hardly express myself !
9	but at the same time I would want to afford er , you as heads of departments er er everybody 's heads of department a little bit of leeway what i what if , what wa wa we have to be careful about this that we set a standard but allow a little leeway because all departments are slightly different and want to approach things
10	I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief .
11	I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs .
12	Some , such as Schmenner ( 1987 ) , feel so strongly about this that they talk of ‘ the black holes of cost accounting ’ .
13	What is the thing about this that concerns you most of all ?
14	We feel so strongly about this that we would say even in a course offered by a University in Britain it would be most desirable for students to ground their work in some hands-on experience in a Third World setting . ’
15	Erm , we feel very strongly about this that there should be a balance of power with the employer nominating no more than half of the trustees .
16	But erm er I I I I really feel very strongly about this that we all know that democracy does n't just consist of electing a a national parliament once in five years , we all know the strength of democracy comprises that where the complex of local institutions of local bodies made up of people serving in different ways , not necessarily elected , that is what comprises democracy and it is that which is being undermined again by this measure in this in this Bill and I do say to Your Lordships that for the reasons given by both my Noble Friends er Lord and by , by the Noble Lord , Lord Lord er that there has been no demand for this
17	‘ It is an accepted practice in dire situations such as this that the board is replaced or supplemented by a new board charged with the function of restoring the fortunes of the company and the confidence of customers , ’ the letter says .
18	It is as a result of fears such as this that members of the RUC are required to obtain official permission before they cam talk to outsiders , such as the Press and researchers , or face being sacked from the force .
19	It was on ‘ evidence ’ such as this that a Gloucestershire jury on 22 May 1300 reduced the Forest of Dean to the king 's demesne lands and woods .
20	If we are to admit similarities between the two modes we must not forget differences such as this that remain fundamental .
21	They argue that if the Greeks can demonstrate with exhibitions such as this that there is no such thing as a Macedonian culture in the former Yugoslavia , Serbian claims to cultural domination of the region are strengthened and Macedonia is more likely to suffer the kind of atrocities that Croatia and Bosnia have endured .
22	It was , then , in a context such as this that a Times correspondent could sum up in 1937 an entirely familiar series of complaints about mounting crime and dwindling authority : .
23	It was for reasons such as this that every attempt was made to bring a measure of order to war .
24	It is issues such as this that the following short section will address .
25	Then you get all the mulch for free that your park departments would have to pay for .
26	Mrs Henry embarked on a course in herbal medicine and it was during this that she heard about the Gerson therapy .
27	Professor T , R. Lee said that people were exercised about the dangers to life from railways when they were new , but they were eventually seen as negligible , with the implication for some that the same sequence would happen with nuclear energy .
28	It will inevitably happen for some that Housman 's Horace is not the reader 's Horace , and that readers will grumble and go in search of more and later Englishings — for it seems we must " English " this poet again and again if we are to keep up with him where he stands still , at the end of the first century BC .
29	But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ?
30	Once we have tasted the intimacy of a whole group being with the Father and hearing his voice , there is placed in the believer a hunger for this that will not go away .