Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from these informants that he pieced together a picture of organised crime as being controlled by key personnel in the police force , local government , business and the legal profession . |
| 2 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 3 | It 's been argued by it 's supporters that it ushered in an era of peace . |
| 4 | Deception was another of the subjects that they knew rather a lot about at the Foreign Office . |
| 5 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 6 | Er there was very little effect on the A sixty one through the centre of Harrogate or to the north of Harrogate , the sorts of traffic flows that we had prior the southern bypass are still there . |
| 7 | Thus reassured , I head for the exhibition halls and spend the day collecting promotional leaflets and free samples of new products that I have n't the faintest intention of buying . |
| 8 | Also , the z-axis is invariant under the flow , so any periodic orbits in the system can be partially described by an integer n specifying the number of times that they wind around the z-axis . |
| 9 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 10 | The Moon was so angry with the hare 's evasions that she picked up a hatchet to chop off his head , but missed her aim and cut the hare on the mouth . |
| 11 | ( 6 ) No liability shall arise by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above if — ( a ) before the date on which proceedings to enforce the liability are finally disposed of , the former residential occupier is reinstated in the premises in question in such circumstances that he becomes again the residential occupier of them ; or ( b ) at the request of the former residential occupier , a court makes an order ( whether in the nature of an injunction or otherwise ) as a result of which he is reinstated as mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above … |
| 12 | Many of the trees , plants and insects that you see almost every day show natural examples of symmetry . |
| 13 | There was such tenderness in his face as he studied the tears flowing down her cheeks that she cried all the harder . |
| 14 | And it 's one that needs sort of a bit of thinking about , and again tie it back to the everyday things that you know quite a lot about , electrical appliances , things like that . |
| 15 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 16 | And as the retail trade knows all too well , there is a surplus of goods that we have n't the purchasing power to acquire . |
| 17 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 18 | ‘ And he has so many patients with much worse ailments that he took quite a robust view of my case . ’ |
| 19 | The file brought with it a twinge of now familiar guilt ant a covering note from Army Intelligence : Will you please try and persuade the creepy-crawlies that we have neither the facilities nor any reason to investigate this lady 's apparent disappearance . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 21 | So the results that we expect out the job . |
| 22 | To the former , I suggest you read The Rainment of Light by David Tansley and to the others that you try out the following experiment . |
| 23 | ‘ It was n't until we noticed the absence of female customers , the dim red lights , and the photos of naked women on the walls that we realised why the ‘ barmaids ’ were laughing at us . ’ |
| 24 | Several governments , particularly that of the UK , sought during 1989 to portray the expansion of nuclear power as a suitable response to global warming , on the grounds that it emitted virtually no " greenhouse gases " . |
| 25 | On April 4 President Özal announced that Turkey had admitted 100,000 Kurdish refugees , reversing its previous decision to close its borders ( which it had taken on the grounds that it had neither the infra-structure nor the resources to cope with the flood of Kurdish refugees ) . |