Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] that [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On that very point sir I 'm grateful to the honourable member for giving way but would he not agree with me that actually the failure of G A T at the end was that by which Caribbean bananas failed to be protected .
2 Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing .
3 just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal .
4 They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them .
5 The size and cost of a present day Olympic complex suggests to me that both the summer and winter games should now have permanent , internationally-funded homes .
6 She finally admitted to herself that even the risk of another snub was preferable to her growing anxiety about what lay ahead .
7 But then it occurred to him that perhaps the joke was Nicola 's and not Blufton 's at all , some invention to impress her boss and ensure her succession to Jane Pargeter 's job .
8 It occurred to us that either the gap between the rich and the poor had become much wider than anyone had ever imagined and that these people had not a clue about our reality or else their campaigns were a deliberate conspiracy to cover up the real cause of our appalling health record .
9 The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policeman can see them .
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