Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the argument that my reformers made against that was simply that where you have a huge number of people who are desperate for jobs , there 's no level below which the wages may not fall , under a free market system . |
| 2 | Well , the answer is that my contract expires after six more commercials . |
| 3 | I found the big difficulty in socialising was that my friends lived in another part of London . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 5 | Bob ; Yeh , It 's in band D which means that my house comes between 45 and 58,000 , |
| 6 | Were n't , although erm I was told that my father died of that so that er , I should do you mind |
| 7 | ‘ I feel proud that my father came from this city , ’ she said slowly . |
| 8 | Well look at , look at , look at that my organization bought for twenty six , twenty seven staff , fifty four thousand pounds . |
| 9 | ( 8 ) A recognised body shall so far as possible ensure that its members comply with this Rule and Rule 6 . ’ |
| 10 | ( 8 ) A recognised body shall so far as possible ensure that its members comply with this Rule and Rule 6 . |
| 11 | By ‘ externalist ’ in this context I mean any theory which denies that a mental episode has any meaning-content intrinsically , and affirms that its content consists in some external relation to other things . |
| 12 | But the committee warns that the industry 's long-term future is threatened by a squeeze in defence spending and reduced civilian orders , and that its survival depends upon increased spending on long-term research . |
| 13 | They arise from a consciousness of the development of a stable ( but variable ) vernacular norm in London , knowledge that its norms differ from those of other varieties , and a belief in the superiority of London norms over those of other regions . |
| 14 | It was not until the Ptolemaic period that its price fell to that obtaining elsewhere in the ancient world . |
| 15 | This is an important shift away from the concept that a firm is competent to carry out investment business and may be authorised solely on the grounds that its partners have at some time qualified as chartered accountants . |
| 16 | In terms of the practical implications for employers , this was a controversial proposal from the earliest days and it is clear that its implementation met with strenuous and effective opposition from different interests . |
| 17 | To follow Cole that far would come perilously near to accepting that Co-operation was , as nearly as makes no difference , the Consumers ' Movement ; and that its future lay in further growth beyond that already achieved by 1939 until , so long as progress continued , it could within its chosen field have virtually displaced all competing provision and all competing manufacture for the purpose of provision . |
| 18 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 19 | For that reason , when Ms Tyson claims that it is a ‘ terrible exaggeration ’ to say that her approach amounts to managed trade , traditional free-traders , wedded to the advantages of multilateralism , will wonder what else it could be called . |
| 20 | Zoë Fairbairns says , ‘ Miranda 's mistake was that her feminism centred on one person , her mother , and when that one person lets her down , she does n't know what she thinks . |
| 21 | Who could doubt that it was a mother 's failure to have been sufficiently vigilant against the fly menace that her child succumbed to some grievous , infectious illness ? |
| 22 | In America , she showed that her sympathies lay with those who favoured abolition of slavery . |
| 23 | It was as if she had accepted the fact that her mother had gone out of her life and that her future lay with this big fat woman , who alternately yelled and cajoled , and the nice man called Ben . |
| 24 | Dr Stockham was by no means the first to suggest this practice , but in spite of that her ideas met with bitter criticism from several fellow experts in the field . |
| 25 | She marvelled at this phenomenon , but was humbly grateful that her mind worked in this way . |
| 26 | Camille was quite aware that her mother coped with these unspoken tensions by leaving them like that : unmentioned , if not unnoticed . |
| 27 | Both were essayists rather than scholars , belonging to an age before English studies had accumulated its own technical machinery ; so that their freedom to polemicise about past centuries now looks , in retrospect , like a liberty lost . |
| 28 | Some towns , however , were able to prosper — Colchester , Salisbury and Newcastle among the larger ones , Exeter , Plymouth , Reading and Ipswich among the smaller ones — and it is likely that their prosperity depended on local factors , more particularly increasing activity in cloth manufacturing and exports , which affected the towns of the West Country and in Suffolk . |
| 29 | If so , it is to be hoped that their contribution to support of old people , and their need for support themselves , will be more sensitively and generously appraised than in the past . |
| 30 | The perception that disability is age-related ultimately influences the take-up rate of these benefits , for many older frail people fail to claim allowances to which they are entitled because they assume that their problems result from old age rather than disability . |