Example sentences of "[verb] that on [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found that on two occasions it was unable to copy a large file across 5 floppy discs . |
| 2 | ‘ From the beginning , that court has acted upon no narrow view of the cases covered by its duty to quash a conviction when it thinks that on any ground there was a miscarriage of justice … |
| 3 | The whole group burst out laughing and agreed that on that occasion she should be ‘ let off ’ her reading . |
| 4 | We may be pardoned for reproducing a part of the opinion of The American Annals of the Deaf of this quarter on the subject : " The retention of the word " Dumb " — which in America has been dropped from the titles of the Convention of Instructors , The National Association , and several State Associations of the Deaf , and many schools , as well as from the United States Census — is probably due to a vote to that effect by the conference held in London last January ; but as our British friends who constitute the Association seem to favour American precedents , we trust that on further consideration they will follow our example in this respect alone , and omit the objectionable word from their title " . |
| 5 | I argued that on some occasions there might simply not be enough acoustic information to make a decision , and cited psycholinguistic experiments on the intelligibility of words in certain contexts . |
| 6 | But then Carver had heard that on other occasions he used the same language about Galvone . |
| 7 | Investigators says that on this occasion he was also flying too low . |
| 8 | Investigators says that on this occasion he was also flying too low . |
| 9 | You can see that on busy days it is just not worth fishing there . |
| 10 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 11 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 12 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 13 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 14 | I recall that on this occasion there were present — besides Geoffrey Faber and other members of his staff — Dylan Thomas , William Empson , A. L. Rowse , Charles Madge , Babette Deutsch ( who had just published a book called This Modern Poetry ) , and some Faber and Criterion authors . |
| 15 | The athletes know them , and also know that on certain occasions they are being looked at for selection purposes . |
| 16 | It is difficult to summarise them , but , broadly , both they and the Cumberbatch survey confirm the public support for televising , suggest that interest waned slightly as novelty wore off , indicate that on some matters there is growing understanding of Parliament , but make plain that many people still have a lot to learn about MPs and their work and roles . |
| 17 | Magistrates heard that on both occasions she was travelling at more than ninety miles an hour . |
| 18 | You can then use this to ensure that on each wall your tiles will be centred accurately on major features such as window reveals , with a border of cut tiles of equal width at each side . |
| 19 | This meant that on special occasions I had to wear a black pleated skirt , white blouse and black beret , with white socks and black shoes and , when the weather was cold , a black cloak . |
| 20 | This meant that on some occasions they would be conducted by Busacher , on others by Anton , the old répétiteur , and in emergencies by their own lead violinist . |
| 21 | Obviously , if Jane says I 'm skipping and Mary says I 'm skipping we observe that on one occasion it is Jane who announces that she is skipping and on another it is Mary . |
| 22 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 23 | I knew that on this trip my husband would go on to Oman and Cairo before returning home . |
| 24 | The court thought that on these facts it was potentially misleading to give the full Ghosh direction . |
| 25 | The intermediate posts or stakes are very far apart ( hence the relative cheapness of the system ) which means that on uneven ground there will be gaps through which lambs may escape . |
| 26 | He said that on that day he had 70 pupils at the West Lothian college and Oatridge agricultural college , and the links between the colleges were excellent . |
| 27 | The chairman said that on that matter he could not give Mr. Bulmer an assurance . |
| 28 | In this memoirs he said that on 15 March he learned that Hassan was pressing Washington to admit the Shah . |
| 29 | On the swings and roundabouts of crew changes , Grant Dalton , skipper of the New Zealand ketch Fisher & Paykel , issued a denial that Britain 's Chris Law would be joining the crew , while Lawrie Smith , skipper of Rothmans , said that on 20 October he would announce that David Powys would boost the crew to 14 , plus one or two others . |
| 30 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |