Example sentences of "[noun] that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Wording similar to that included below may be incorporated with the objective of retaining the benefit of an appointment regarded as quasi-arbitration in circumstances where there are risks that such benefits may be lost during the conduct of the engagement .
2 If the politicians were to take the drastic action that many voices are calling for , much of our motorised transport would not even get out of the garage .
3 These principles and these beliefs are such an integral part of each person 's characteristics that few days will pass in the professional life of the librarian when these loyalties do not impinge upon our professional judgment .
4 Proposals from the Professional Footballers Association that former players should be promoted more quickly will be considered at an FA referees ' committee meeting on December 19 .
5 Proposals from the Professional Footballers Association that former players should be promoted more quickly will be considered at an FA referees ' committee meeting on December 19 .
6 He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires .
7 It should not be presumed , however , that the child instantly and readily makes a generalization of its perception that many women possess no penis ; in the way of this there lies the assumption that the absence of the penis is due to a castration performed as a punishment .
8 Her association with birds and animals is linked with her ability to use natural drives and the type of primitive but effective forms of perception that these creatures possess .
9 Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago .
10 It is through other black kids that some aspirations are fostered and others snuffed out by stories of racialism .
11 So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason .
12 I was also under no illusion that some backbenchers on our side were nervous about the policy .
13 Walton has commented usefully on this , arguing that the use of the phrase ‘ the best interests of the child ’ has often confused rather than helped child care debates , creating the illusion that these interests constitute an objective fact .
14 June Huntington 's allegation that these practitioners are businesslike rather than professional questions the selection procedure of the committee .
15 A long-term irritant to the police has been the ongoing allegation that some officers have been closely connected with freemasonry .
16 Interestingly , it was only with this loss that many husbands realised the importance of their spouse 's wage to the family .
17 In the New Testament this is supplemented by the command that all Christians are to love their neighbours as themselves — an act of personal charity to those with whom we have contact .
18 McManus notes that ‘ aggression does not pay off for girls in the way some boys find it does for them ’ , with the result that many girls adapt to the social world of school in a different way .
19 Radar transmitters blast out up to 100 kW , with the result that many areas of the deck are exposed to field intensities greater than 30 W/m .
20 With regard to the secondary school curriculum , the Yellow Paper maintained that too much scope had been given to the principle of pupil choice , with the result that many pupils were following unbalanced programmes and not enough pupils were studying science-based and technological subjects .
21 Family breakdown is common and there are a large number of single parent families , with the result that many grandparents share in or take over the upbringing of their grandchildren and behave as parents to them .
22 The new scheme , the Social Fund , offers only limited help through grants with the result that most families have to look to discretionary loans to cope with large items of expenditure or with an emergency .
23 However , within 24 hours Congress approved and Bush signed legislation ordering an end to the strike , with the result that most railworkers were back at work on the morning of April 18 .
24 The growth of any general practice whereby decisions of the Cabinet or of Cabinet committee were announced as such would lead to the embarrassing result that some decisions of government would be regarded as less authoritative than others .
25 Study skills again provides a case in point , where a secondary school introducing study skills may misread the level of sophistication of information-handling in some of its feeder primary schools , with the result that some children may find themselves ( to use Rosemary Webb 's ( 1985 ) term ) being " de-skilled " at 11 + .
26 ISS focused on the fourth and fifth years because it is in these years that pupils tend to narrow their curriculum , as schools frequently have a very small core with large option schemes , with the result that some pupils pursue a curriculum that is neither broad nor balanced .
27 Nevertheless , the drop in enrolments for traditional advanced courses does not correspond exactly with the increased interest in the new style courses , with the overall result that more candidates are currently involved in advanced courses than in previous sessions .
28 Perhaps the gene for the pattern was linked to an unusual level of aggressiveness or assertiveness , with the result that these cats soon managed to oust most other colour forms whenever there was a dispute over territory or females .
29 As these last few examples show , gestures of respect or disrespect , moving from verse to prose or back again , are often caused by the entry of one or more characters , with the result that those characters on stage have to readjust themselves , choose which medium they are going to use .
30 Even if you listen out carefully before you transmit , you have no guarantee that another pilot is not going to press his or her PTT at exactly the same moment as you do , with the probable result that both messages are drowned out and the Air Traffic Controller 's ears are assaulted by a high-pitched screech .
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