Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not for my part think that any assistance at all can be gained from the authorities on section 40 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |
| 2 | This was reflected in an interesting phenomenon noticed by Mellanby : many school medical officers in safe urban reception areas were insistent that head lice had been virtually unknown in their area until the dirty , verminous and ill-mannered inner city evacuees arrived ; they were shocked when confronted with past hospital records for their town showing that this was not so . |
| 3 | When rioting broke out Eva was concerned for their safety knowing that all the other neighbours were Sinhalese . |
| 4 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 5 | Its dimensions and the details of its decoration indicate that this was no empty boast . |
| 6 | Others maintained that , even if he knew nothing of these crimes , he was morally responsible in that he had contributed substantially to the general climate which allowed members of his organization to believe that such acts were justified in order to destabilize the government of Terence O'Neill . |
| 7 | The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral . |
| 8 | But he was careful not to think , because some corner of his mind knew that that way lay a kind of death , of Hal in Chester , quite certainly notified , or soon to be notified , by Hotspur or another , of the long day 's work done at Homildon Hill six days ago . |
| 9 | A lengthy period , if it 's unusual , can be an indication of an early miscarriage , so it 's worth checking with your GP to see that all is well , simply to ensure that any future pregnancies go smoothly . |
| 10 | What photographer has n't heard of Picture Post — though I suppose the American in me world argue that all those magazines were imitators of Life . ’ |
| 11 | However , what this assumes is that the police never make decisions to de-politicise crime , which they plainly do in their endeavour to argue that many assaults by whites upon black are not racist in their intent , merely matters of public order . |
| 12 | The observation that CF patients could contaminate environmental surfaces with P cepacia in their sputum suggested that this can not be excluded as an indirect mode of spread of the epidemic strain within the Edinburgh fitness class . |
| 13 | Perhaps we are seeing , as an evolution ( the origins of which can be traced to the nineteenth century ) , the emergence of a genuine hybrid tribunal , in which case to suggest that this body is a further example of the use of judges for extrajudicial activities is only one way to describe it . |
| 14 | However , the pain in her chest confirmed that this was no nightmare , but grim reality . |
| 15 | Claire Robinson in her affidavit deposes that all parties were in agreement that the court on 16 February had not come to any opinion as to whether or not Mr. Bell had broken or was likely to break any condition of his bail . |
| 16 | Akroyd Stuart died in Claremont , Western Australia , 19 February 1927 , a disappointed if not embittered man , and in his will directed that all his papers should be burned . |
| 17 | Tomlinson in his commentary argues that this notion need not lead to a simplistic ‘ small is beautiful ’ position . |
| 18 | He will have to settle for boccia and the look in his eye suggested that many opponents will suffer in the years ahead . |
| 19 | The absence of any detectable increase in VIP concentrations in our study suggested that this peptide did not play a significant part in the mediation of bile inhibition of ileal motility . |
| 20 | CAFOD , on behalf of the church in this country , are asking people to write to their MP to stress that this country should not be cutting aid , but rather seeing how we can increase it . |
| 21 | For example , a man who wished to make certain grievances clear to his boss decided that this was best approached , in the first instance , by writing to his boss because he realized that , were he to try to do this face to face , he would find it difficult to express himself without losing his temper . |
| 22 | The , er , credit to that goes to the chairman and chief executive and the executive directors and they are responsible for the business and it is right , in my view , that they should be rewarded for it and encouraged to take risks to work very hard on our behalf to ensure that that growth continues er , er , that benefits the , er , company , it benefits the country it benefits the er ergo , people who are working for it , it is not inflationary because we are looking at productivity and the productivity in the company has increased significantly . |
| 23 | And we for our part think that this counts for a lot . |
| 24 | A survey by his department found that this is especially true in working class areas . |