Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations .
2 To a large extent that ideology looked to the Roman past .
3 The center of gravity in employment is moving fast from manual and clerical workers to knowledge workers who resist the command-and-control model that business took from the military 100 years ago .
4 It was in this atmosphere of crisis that debate began on the pastoral office of bishops on 5 November .
5 They firmly believed that people should be given rules to abide by to ensure that society ran on an even basis ; they did n't believe that the rules applied to them .
6 There is no evidence that prostitution existed as a sole source of income for its practitioners in the earliest forms of human society , among the so-called hunter-gatherers .
7 Thanks to this act , Churchward was able to tell the world that Mu sank into the chilly waters of the Pacific 12,000 years ago , that almost all of its 64 million inhabitants perished , that a few survived on Pacific islands , that these survivors gave birth to Homo sapiens , that white people are nicer than black because they 're closer to the original folk of Mu , and all the other nonsense you might expect .
8 Sir Philip argued that anti-semitism appealed to a subconscious racial instinct which was almost universal , with the Colonel Blimps believing in the conspiracy theory , and that in East London it was envy of Jewish economic success which caused the problem ; this development represented the only real danger of fascism .
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