Example sentences of "[conj] that [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The conclusion is either that the political and social message concerning older workers was not reaching employers , whose strategies were determined by other priorities , or that they put the immediate interests of the firm , as they defined them , before the longer-term interest of the national economy as the government was defining it .
2 Given this variation in language forms and use , the danger may be that teachers do not realise the extent of the variation , or that they regard the creole language forms as haphazard .
3 Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law .
4 But there again if there ever was a strike or that you 've a wee bit protection .
5 It is a choice that is fully there for us to make at the same time and in the same fashion as other countries , except that we have the additional option of deciding that it would not be right for this country .
6 Not much to report this week on the home front , except that I have a sneaking feeling I may have broken a bone in my right hand .
7 But more than that they imply a specific theory about the genesis of social violence .
8 I know it 's a bit of tenuous link but there we are — other than that I 've no great claims to knowing any Leeds players
9 So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures .
10 He will not forget , particularly when we have the presidency next year , that Malta has applied for membership of the Community and that we owe a great debt of gratitude to the Maltese people .
11 QUIREBOYS and that we have a terrible punishment planned to chastise such arrant , nay , wanton sexism ?
12 QUIREBOYS and that we have a terrible punishment planned to chastise such arrant , nay , wanton sexism ?
13 Is it within your power to draw the Prime Minister 's attention to the fact that his first responsibility is to the House of Commons , that there is a Prime Minister 's Question Time every Tuesday and Thursday and that we have a Foreign Secretary and a Secretary of State for Defence who are quite able to deal with international and defence commitments overseas ?
14 I shall tell him that we have every reason to believe that the bomber was carrying a smuggled explosive device aboard , that its detonation was triggered by a radio wave and that we have the miscreant responsible in our hands .
15 ‘ There is no doubt in my mind , ’ she says , ‘ that we have all lived many lives before and that we have an individual life-force which never dies but chooses to come into incarnation at various times .
16 ‘ There is no doubt at all in my mind that we have all lives many lives before and that we have an individual life-force which never dies . ’
17 We are saying that there is a structural weakness in the United Kingdom and that we need a strategic authority , not for providing services , but for developing and co-ordinating —
18 Secondly , effective defence in depth presupposes that castles have been sited with this end in view , and that they form a coherent group under unified control .
19 The course assumes that the teachers are qualified teachers of at least one foreign language ( probably English ) in their own country , that they are native speakers of the language they are going to teach in Britain , and that they have a good practical command of English .
20 Now the city 's MP , Douglas French , says he believes their convictions were unsafe and that they have a powerful case for an appeal .
21 H. W. Gillman , a district judge , believed that ‘ natives find both profit and amusement in bringing false cases , and that they have a natural talent for lying . ’
22 This procedure ensures that the information is available to those who need it and that they have a clear understanding of the problem .
23 In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too .
24 Segal draws on ample evidence to show that the rates of male violence against women vary considerably among societies , that they are alarmingly high in the US from which most of the disturbing studies of male violence derive , and that they bear a direct relationship to the general levels of violence of all kinds within any given society and period .
25 Often it claims that results obtained by such methods do not need formalization ; that they explain themselves ; and that they generate the new questions that the discipline needs .
26 We shall see that employers are key actors within industrial relations and that they possess a considerable margin for defining their own policies which are not wholly determined in response to the actions of unions , or to economic and political pressures .
27 — the right to examine Government legislation and that he stop the appalling use of the guillotine which stifles it ?
28 Advantages include the fact that you are not responsible for their rents if they leave and that you have a clearly-defined personal space , however small .
29 ‘ Every time you hear about meningitis you think about the brain and that you have a big problem , ’ said Sharpe .
30 Your advantage is that you know Oldenburg , that you speak Russian , that you 're a trained professional and that you have an excellent cover . ’
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