Example sentences of "that [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 3 | We regret that for practical reasons we can not accept cheques less than 7 days prior to date of departure . |
| 4 | ‘ After the tent blew down we renegotiated the situation so that for 11 performances they would receive the same fee . |
| 5 | The driver wound down his window and cursed him , adding that for two pins he 'd tell the police . |
| 6 | The procedure is often of great value , but it 's suggested that for two reasons it should only be used in urgent cases — both out of consideration for Land Registry staff , and to avoid the possibility of their being swamped by too many such applications , resulting in delay , which would defeat the whole purpose of the operation . |
| 7 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 8 | The following month , after an appeal by Iranian opposition leader Rajavi , Iraq announced that for seven days it would halt attacks on towns . |
| 9 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 10 | The brief introduction to Piaget 's ideas in Chapter 2 , and our realization that as adult readers we can not read , say , an Ordnance Survey map , a machine drawing , or art forms from cultures not our own with anything like total understanding , should cause us to be cautious and questioning when presented with these assumptions . |
| 11 | So , I suppose one of them , right , we can make mature , so if you 'd like to put your handset by the side of your phone , do n't put it down , we 'll let that one mature and prove that after 75 seconds we ca n't lose them , and with the other one , can we just prove that we can go back to the conversation any time we like . |
| 12 | Patrick knew enough about improvised timing devices to be sure that after fifty-five seconds it would complete an electric circuit and fire the mortar bomb . |
| 13 | But we we agree that after three weeks we should be should have completed it . |
| 14 | Carolyn commented on them , and for once incurred Bryony 's pleased attention , as she explained how a friend had made them for her to an ancient design , and that unlike any shoes you could buy , they were made to last a lifetime , were completely healthy and natural , and did not threaten to deform the foot or posture in any way . |
| 15 | Article 34 of the Vienna Convention applies to itself so that like other treaties it can not bind third parties . |
| 16 | When you come to analyse his splendid breakfasts you find that with slight changes he might almost be describing a nineteen-sixties , chop-house revival period , West End restaurant lunch . |
| 17 | The report comments that with vigorous efforts it may be possible to raise this proportion this decade to say 20 per cent , but even this is not certain' . |
| 18 | Signora Puglia was convinced that with more lessons I could take the examination for the higher school in Parma , the Scuola Media . |
| 19 | Earlier in this chapter I explained that with some foods you CAN get away with guesswork about quantity , and weighing is unnecessary . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm a storyteller , and so I can show readers that people think in a certain way , and suggest to readers that under those circumstances they might thing in the same way . |
| 21 | To add to their guilt at this lack of self-control , some books say that from 36 weeks , pregnant women are n't likely to gain any more weight and that from 38 weeks they may even lose some ! |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I can sing so quietly that from two metres you will not hear me ! ’ |
| 23 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 24 | All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues . |
| 25 | Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia . |
| 26 | The governments of the two contracting parties recommend to the legislative bodies of the united Germany that within two years they should deal with the questions regarding amendments or additions to the Basic Law as raised in connection with German unification … |
| 27 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |
| 28 | It never occurred to me that within three years I should hate the Italians with an unrelenting hatred . |
| 29 | IBM Corp shares saluted the imminent departure of John Akers with a jump of $3.25 at $52.125 at the opening the day after the company accompanied news that it was cutting its quarterly dividend only 55% with the announcement that within 90 days it would have a new chief executive . |
| 30 | Unlike the others who appear and disappear as fashion and progress dictate , children occupy a permanent place in the list partly because of their continuing presence as a potential sub-class , partly because they have never protested and mainly because it is assumed that in favourable circumstances they will become men and therefore require attention . |