Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | How , exactly , is he going to let Serafin stumble upon the rooms that are waiting , as I imagine , somewhere rather close to where I am now sitting ? |
| 2 | The scheme was criticized by Second Division Clubs on the grounds that they had to share the onus equally with the better-off . |
| 3 | She had been denied " family credit " income support on the grounds that she did not live in the UK . |
| 4 | She had been unpopular with militant nationalists , who suspected her of being too conciliatory towards Moscow , and they voted down her price rise proposals on the grounds that they might prove socially divisive and thus weaken Lithuania 's resistance to Soviet pressure . |
| 5 | A much more dramatic break with the current political tradition is required if progress is to be made in building support for the policies that could spring Britain 's underclass from its current position . |
| 6 | Tanabe was the author of a recent policy review which was designed to steer the party away from its traditional position of pacifism ( including opposition to the country 's Self Defence Force on the grounds that its existence was unconstitutional ) and international neutrality . |
| 7 | GEC , Ferranti 's main British rival in radar , is also keen to mount a takeover bid but would encounter fierce Ministry of Defence opposition on the grounds that it would damage competition in electronics procurement . |
| 8 | ’ ‘ e 's probably spent another night in gaol , ’ said Granpa on Monday morning as I pushed our barrow down the middle of the road , trying to avoid the horse shit from the buses that were dragged backwards and forwards , to and from the City along the Metropolitan Line . |
| 9 | For here is trance dance grooving at its highest level , a silver drug for the senses that allows you to enter into another dimension of sex and sorcery . |
| 10 | In the short run , ATP officials say they will cancel plans for another round of applications this summer to their programme , which funds proposals from individual companies and industry consortia , while the Energy Department expects to continue its emphasis on funding research projects within the laboratories that also serve the needs of industry . |
| 11 | The accord was rejected by Gen. Aoun on the grounds that it did not provide for an immediate Syrian troop withdrawal [ ibid ] . |
| 12 | I think it is unwise , therefore , to defend arts subjects on the grounds that they are a kind of social science . |
| 13 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 14 | Later the same year , he was to be denied a place in the British Olympic football team on the grounds that he was a professional cricketer . |
| 15 | Spain , Greece , Ireland and Portugal remain exempt from carbon reductions on the grounds that they are still developing countries . |
| 16 | Within the brain it is usually only 1 mm or less , but the cell bodies of the neurons that bring information to the brain from the skin lie close to the spinal cord , so in a whale or dinosaur the dendrites could be 10,000 mm long , and this also applies to the axons of the motor fibres , which carry commands from the spinal cord telling the muscles to contract . |
| 17 | There is perhaps something to be said for the continued use of the term student from the motives that led the Greeks to call the Furies the Eumenides , " the kindly ones ' , in the hope that the use of a flattering name might induce them to live up to it . |
| 18 | These can harm the consumer — the ban on the sweetening agent cyclamate on the grounds that it could cause cancer is a case in point . |
| 19 | By making tape recording of the sounds that disturb her , and playing them back to her frequently , indoors , at increasing levels of volume , she should gradually learn to accept them . |
| 20 | Newsround felt it was worthwhile to give readers information about the efforts that are being made by the Council to ensure its views on reform are known and presented as effectively as possible . |
| 21 | There may be a reluctance to carry out endoscopy in the elderly to obtain small bowel biopsy specimens on the grounds that the procedure is unsafe in the old and frail . |
| 22 | The loosening of traditional morality , the decline of the family , the incitements of the movie-screen — all these were regularly cited as evidence of a breakdown of authority in a catalogue of accusations which is a carbon copy of the fears that surround the criminal question in our own time . |
| 23 | The Department of Health publishes tar tables to encourage smokers who can not or will not give up smoking to switch to lower tar brands on the grounds that this may at least lower their risk of lung cancer . |
| 24 | Labour Members may jeer in a debate in the House , but do they believe that they will get through an election campaign with the inconsistencies that are revealed in this document ? |
| 25 | Eden continues to eschew either Go Corp 's PenPoint or Microsoft 's Windows for Pen Computing on the grounds that they are too resource-hungry : instead the developer gets MS-DOS and access to the handwriting recognition and graphic interface hooks built into ROM . |
| 26 | Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . |
| 27 | Formerly , the rule permitting recourse to earlier statutes was taken to allow the court to compare the wording of a consolidation Act with the Acts that it superseded , and to conclude that variation of wording indicated a change of meaning . |
| 28 | Feminists campaigned against the marriage bar on the grounds that marriage per se was not incompatible with work . |
| 29 | Or will they attempt to funnel more business through their factoring subsidiaries on the grounds that they are better placed than the local branch managers to monitor the banks ' exposure to risk ? |
| 30 | Although the government had suggested that anyone who applied would be permitted to make a visit , the Justice Ministry banned at least 42 dissidents from leaving South Korea on the grounds that their visit would " severely hurt national interests " . |