Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Few Spanish statesmen could recognize that America was irretrievably lost ; it is only after 1820 that a handful of liberals talked of the ‘ inevitability ’ of the fruit falling from the tree . |
| 3 | There is no requirement in the Act of 1986 that a right of appeal should be given to a person who is not the recipient of an intervention notice . |
| 4 | The consequence of this decline was that the government was able to say by the autumn of 1986 that the behaviour of M3 was no longer a reliable guide to monetary conditions and monetary targets were dropped in favour of discretionary interpretations of several ‘ indicators ’ including the exchange rate and the growth of nominal income itself . |
| 5 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 6 | No sir I I do accept first of all that the capacity of the city should remain at thirty three . |
| 7 | The recent nomination of a woman as Assistant Bishop of Massachusetts , and the remarks of one diocesan bishop that ‘ the ordination of women to the priesthood must be achieved at practically any cost ’ will cause great despair and lead to grave questioning of all that the Church of England has stood for . |
| 8 | We asked people to keep a diary of what they were doing and to fill in this diary every half an hour , saying where they were , who they were with and what they were doing , and we were able to see erm first of all that the range of people that you meet decreases when you 're unemployed , that you 're actually spending more time alone , less time with friends and other people . |
| 9 | Well can I say first of all that the meeting to which you refer will take place this coming Monday and I suspect that it will be the first of possibly two or three meetings which I suspect are going to follow rather quickly , one after the other . |
| 10 | It was only after the reasonable harvest of 1922 that the spectre of nation-wide starvation receded . |
| 11 | It was in the summer of 1959 that a man with untidy hair , a crumpled suit and pens clipped to his outside breast pocket , looking like a schoolmaster who had fallen on hard times , boarded a plane at London Airport for East Berlin . |
| 12 | It was from comparing numbers such as these that the majority of scientists suspected that watts of power from test-tube fusion was an impossibility . |
| 13 | And it it goes like this that the economy of North Yorkshire generally and of some of its districts in particular has reached the point where it is not possible from internally generated growth to provide er the jobs that the residents . |
| 14 | For all that The Mouse on the Moon ( 1963 ) is a slight film , its satirical swipes at the unprogressive nature of British institutions and the nation 's difficulty in coming to terms with its global insignificance do find their target . |
| 15 | It is thoroughly in line with this that the author of Revelation can say , ‘ Witness to Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy ’ ( 19:10 ) . |
| 16 | local testing programmes — such as those that a state in the USA , or an LEA in the UK , would employ ; |
| 17 | It was not until 1935 that a geologist on the Scottish staff was appointed to supervise petrographical work in Scotland . |
| 18 | These criticisms continued to be levelled at the many standard forms produced in 1963 , but it was not until 1980 that a number of new forms appeared , the lengthy gestation period reflecting the difficulties in satisfying the disparate interests of the constituent members of the Joint Contracts Tribunal . |
| 19 | The Charter of the Forest had tried to stop this abuse by enacting in 1217 that the number of foresters necessary to keep the forests should be determined ‘ by the view and oath of the twelve regarders when they make the regard ’ — that is , every three years . |
| 20 | While courses in business ethics are now among the most popular on business-school curriculums , many academics admit in private that the influence of their teaching is minimal . |
| 21 | On the subject of the 1969 guidelines , William Park cryptically concluded in 1986 that the status of the proposed " demonstration shot " in Nato 's nuclear strategy still remained " unclear " . |
| 22 | Indeed , assurances from Labour that the abolition of the BES will not be retrospective could increase attractions . |
| 23 | In France it was not until 1986 that the surplus on the balance of trade in manufactured goods on extra-trade was insufficient to offset the deficit on intra-trade . |
| 24 | Then it was not until 1861 that the Union for the Completion of the Cathedral started its work , carried along on a wave of Romantic nationalism . |
| 25 | Though there is clearly a potential conflict of interest , it is far from clear that the law against insider trading would be broken by a firm that took advantage of it . |
| 26 | It is far from clear that the hope of the russian Academy of Sciences that industrial contracts can keep the rump of its establishments in being can be realized ; experience in other countries in not encouraging . |
| 27 | After the death of Brunel in 1859 he was promoted engineer-in-chief , and it was while working on the ferry piers in 1862–3 that the idea of the Severn railway tunnel came into his mind . |
| 28 | It was not until 1972 that the idea of star and planet systems forming from other stellar material came into vogue , when Wilbur Brown of Wyoming University said that such systems were formed from the ejected shells of supernovae . |
| 29 | It follows from this that the test of legitimate episcopal authority is that the bishop should speak with the voice of Christ . |
| 30 | Arechaga concludes from this that the treaty in its final form could be amended by the parties without regard to third parties ’ navigation rights . |