Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 9.16 Developing neighbouring property Landlords frequently include a proviso stating that nothing contained in the lease shall prevent them from altering , adding to , refurbishing and generally executing works to neighbouring property . |
| 2 | I gather that nothing remains of the site today . |
| 3 | He was so close , she could n't think , she certainly could n't speak , explain that nothing mattered except the longing , the sudden urgency , the need to feel his mouth on hers . |
| 4 | There is always a danger of this happening with innovation , of those instigating and leading a new initiative coming to believe that nothing happened in the field before their arrival . |
| 5 | This step does not necessarily mean that everyone affected by the problem must be identified . |
| 6 | So it remains the case that everyone earning over the threshold has to pay contributions on every pound earned , up to the ceiling of £325 a week . |
| 7 | Allied to , but different from , acknowledging the need securing commitment is a matter of ensuring that everyone connected with the operation is personally committed to maintaining standards . |
| 8 | They knew him so well that everyone fell into a hush and appeared to move around him on tiptoes . |
| 9 | At team meetings anyone was welcome to have his say , thereby building cohesion and a feeling that everyone belonged to the unit . |
| 10 | So I did n't say , ‘ Okay , I 'm Joe and I can play anything and I 'm going to make sure that everyone knows on every song that I 'm Master Shredder ! ’ |
| 11 | In a school where many support services are offered through contracts or franchises , it becomes especially important to preserve the corporate identity and to ensure , through effective communication and sensitive leadership , that everyone working in the school feels an important part of the whole . |
| 12 | He said the figures , ‘ implied that everyone removed from a hospital waiting list has been treated when blatantly that is not the case . |
| 13 | That this has not come about indicates either that everyone benefits from the system — which pluralist writers show is patently not so or that the democratic and neutral state is in fact nothing of the sort and that the scope for reform is severely limited . |
| 14 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 15 | If , no matter how randomly you threw matter around , the resulting conglomeration could often be said , with hindsight , to be good for something , then it would be true to say that I cheated over the swallow and the whale . |
| 16 | " Since we were n't being shown any buffalo , " replied the senator , smiling easily , " we bagged a muntjac that I spotted on the plain — for one of our smaller groups . " |
| 17 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 18 | I remember very well from the moment that I fell from the boat and felt my feet strike some soft substance . |
| 19 | Sir — It was with deep sadness that I heard of the death of Fred Daly , to date the only Irish winner of The Open . |
| 20 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 21 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |
| 22 | I believe that the spending levels that we are now seeing , through the new scheme that I announced in the summer , vindicate the judgment I made because the £17 million that was spent in the two years of the initial scheme represents an average spend of £8.5 million . |
| 23 | ‘ I realise that I come into the picture as a relative , and I do feel natural interest and concern for my great-uncle . |
| 24 | I 'm not er a great fan of the monarchy , although that I would say that I come from a family which is , devoted a large portion of it 's life in service and work to the royal family . |
| 25 | But I do n't think there were any anyone that I knew on the railway were not against nationalization . |
| 26 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 27 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 28 | Their reasoning — that ‘ when all safeguards are respected and the best interests of the patient are taken into account , it is certainly not murder ’ — parallels the apparent logic behind the Soviet cleansing of antisocialist elements , the Indian practice of murder/suicide of widows , and the infanticide that I observed among the Tsamai in south-west Ethiopia . |
| 29 | Tt and er one of the passages that I read during the service , is this one , psalm a hundred . |
| 30 | One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee . |