Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strongest ecological difference is that between those who can accept whaling in principle so long as it is properly regulated and those who do not accept whaling in principle at all . |
| 2 | In Tables 6.2 and 6.3 the differences between the two groups are all in the expected direction , with the scale of the difference between the less costly and more costly being very similar for both variables ; some of the differences are large enough to be statistically significant , for example that between those who lived with others or alone in Newham at second assessment ( significant at the one per cent level ) . |
| 3 | Sarella quivered with the knowledge that for sure he wanted something again . |
| 4 | This public celebration is still usually followed by the private honeymoon , despite the fact that for many it will not be the first holiday they have had together . |
| 5 | Insofar as there was any factual basis for people 's answers , it seems likely that for many it was MLR or bank base rate , which were between 12½ and 14 per cent at the time of the survey , and which are of course frequently mentioned in the press and on TV . |
| 6 | It must be added that for all their drive and gusto , his books show a strong Catholic bias ( he said he loved ‘ all things Catholic , especially the lowly poets and saints , dago culture , Celtic peoples , the mendicant orders and Thomism ’ ) . |
| 7 | Yes , well it has also been a point that for all their substantially lower salaries there are far more bright sparks in the higher echelons of public sector management than is credited . |
| 8 | Her small , delicate monkey-features quivered into childish candour , reassuring him that for all her formidable composure she was , indeed , no more than twenty-three . |
| 9 | Incidentally , be assured that for all its many travels , the Cup itself is in perfect shape without a single scratch upon it . |
| 10 | Yet Jaq feared that for all its power the Imperium was slowly succumbing to the attentions of aliens , of renegades , of daemons . |
| 11 | It must be remembered that for all its world status and the great influence it has upon the rest of the airworthiness authorities of the western world , the FAA is after all made up of fallible human beings . |
| 12 | His normally responsive facial expression was firmly controlled ; an Oxford contemporary remembered that for all its serenity an observer seemed ‘ to be gazing upon some great portrait of a face rather than upon a face ’ . |
| 13 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 14 | The fact remains that for all its crassness and naivety , the American experiment is a colossal testimony to the importance of faith in human life . ’ |
| 15 | I was so high on adrenalin that for all I knew I was talking utter rubbish . |
| 16 | She thought him a most responsible and sensitive young man and then reflected that for all his fooling around , it probably masked his unhappiness and disappointment over his ‘ father ’ . |
| 17 | They should also know that it is very important that there must be established in the child 's mind at a very early age a dawning awareness of the fact that for all his life he will be required to submit to control from some source or other . |
| 18 | Yet looking at many young people today , the targets of communication channels unknown to their grandparents , it is hard to believe that for all his showmanship McLuhan was entirely wrong . |
| 19 | On the other hand , it should be borne in mind that for all his adolescent encyclopaedic zeal and his years of cultural enthusiasms , his familiarity with European culture was largely restricted to two areas : classical antiquity and the modern period , especially the previous hundred years . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , ’ she said , ‘ I see that for all your fine words you are much like the rest , ’ and there were tears in her eyes when she turned away from him . |
| 21 | If Cuba fell , other Latin American countries would reject us , claiming that for all our might , the Soviet Union had n't been able to do anything for Cuba except to make empty protests to the United Nations ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 493 ) . |
| 22 | They had made him their leader and Nuadu , cynical and bitter against his own kind , had thought that for all he was a base-born prince , still he had a Court of a kind and subjects of a sort . |
| 23 | It was probably difficult for Sheila to take the step of coming into the CAB with the very sensitive subject of homosexuality that for all she knows may be taboo at the bureaux . |
| 24 | The National Bank said that for 1990 it had to adhere to a strict monetary policy aimed at keeping the hard currency account deficit under $550,000,000 , that of the state budget under 10,000 million forints and inflation under 19 per cent — conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) when it approved an agreement to pave the way for additional foreign loans to maintain the country 's creditworthiness . |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has already made it plain that , unlike some other Bills , we hope that for this one not only will most of the regulations be in place before Royal Assent , but that draft regulations will be composed parallel to the legislation . |
| 26 | She went to the edge of the roof and shouted across the village at the unnamed thief that for this he 'd be struck with paralysis ; that he 'd be smitten with cholera and die : that unless he owned up and returned the cockerel , the gods would punish his family with poverty and starvation for ever . |
| 27 | Another controversial aspect of the road plan was the recommendation that for half its length it should be routed through land belonging to Manuel Zelaya , a powerful Honduran sawmill owner . |
| 28 | We are customers of a massive industry trying to make money and I understand that for some it 's just staying in business that counts . |
| 29 | This last point is important since it will be seen from reading through the course that for those who wish it , there is considerable flexibility of approach . |
| 30 | Well good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen I am delighted to welcome you to the R Y A's Annual General Meeting if I may call the meeting to order and may I propose that for those who 's convening the meeting printed on the front page of the annual report and accounts ninety , ninety one ninety two to be taken as read . |