Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 2 | Slightly dominant , she slotted admirably into the mother-substitute figure that Nicholson seemed to require for stability — as opposed to the more sexually desirable women who figured in his life with frequency . |
| 3 | They are expressive of the sentiments of retributive justice that Beccaria wished to exclude from consideration of punishments . |
| 4 | This led the government , in the words of one senior manager , repeatedly to ‘ move the goalposts ’ , in other words to change the criteria that BR had to meet for electrification schemes to be approved . |
| 5 | But an assumption that Ptolemy had to make in order to predict these positions correctly was that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the earth as at other times . |