Example sentences of "that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regulators worry that mergers of two large , weak banks might just create one weak giant bank . |
| 2 | It seems that the legal and economic objective of the merger regulation is not to foster the creation of European champions , but to ensure that mergers within the Community do not create or strengthen dominant market positions in the Common Market . |
| 3 | Although British merger policy has lacked consistency and coherence , it has been based on the principle that mergers which are deemed to be ‘ against the public interest ’ should be prevented . |
| 4 | The most obvious of these was that mergers occurred in waves and affected all industries . |
| 5 | Professor Keith Cowling and his research team have argued that mergers continue to explain half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is only since 1965 that mergers have been subject to public scrutiny at all . |
| 7 | In spite of this , most studies agree that mergers have not on average improved the subsequent performance of the merging companies . |
| 8 | Indeed , the argument is often advanced that mergers bring benefits through reducing costs of production because of the attainment of economies of scale . |
| 9 | The current official view is therefore that mergers are part and parcel of the competitive process , as opposed to restrictive practices which impede that process . |
| 10 | There is no way all-seat can mean all-safe Bradford is the most brutal example and there is no way that all-seaters will ‘ civilise ’ fans in the way Taylor imagined . |
| 11 | It does n't matter a whole lot , I mean because the er , all it would show is that metaphors need n't take the form of constituents in sentences . |
| 12 | Okay , now one of the predictions made is that metaphors to , sorry idioms to form into this plus . |
| 13 | It is important to help pupils to appreciate that metaphors require interpretation within a background of shared ideas . |
| 14 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 15 | In all these measures the public would be informed and consulted , so that meetings and publicity would be vital parts of the projects . |
| 16 | Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions . |
| 17 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 18 | Hardly surprising that meetings at the DoH have been know to take a different turn from that envisaged by civil servants . |
| 19 | Its charter , unlike most of the others , did not say that meetings of the directors of the Company had to be held in England . |
| 20 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 21 | The report was highly critical of the backbench committees and noted that meetings frequently overlap or are cancelled and rearranged and that attendance was low . |
| 22 | Although much talk went on it was n't until 1876 and then again in April 1892 , that meetings were called to consider " A bridge across the Medway " . |
| 23 | It has now been decided that meetings will take place of all Branch Representatives in the Pilot Branches in order to clarify the experiences of our members on the ground regarding these Pilot Branches . |
| 24 | Please note that meetings will not be held on all of the dates given on the form , but I can not say at this early stage how many will actually need to take place . |
| 25 | Finally I declared that we had no Chiefs only innumerable Indians ; that meetings and even pow-wows were not found necessary ; that communication was by smoke-signal , both between ourselves of the load-bearers form Cubs to Grandfathers/mothers ; and our pipes of peace the traditional Taylor soup and bread and cheese . |
| 26 | I 've heard from people who have visited Brussels that meetings were being cancelled because the British Delegation were not even members of the trade union , but looking at the structure of the works councils in the U K this is no wonder . |
| 27 | She kept her eye on things generally , such as : tactfully suggesting to an under-housemaid ( caught out bypassing Lizzie 's careful instructions ) that pos were meant to be scrubbed till their inner china gleamed , as well as being emptied every morning . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ I hope and trust that ratifications will come from all countries within six months . |
| 29 | Functional studies were essentially positivist in nature and depended upon the notion that phenomena can be explained as instances of repeated and predictable regularities in which form and function can be assumed to be related , and indeed form and process figured in the titles of a number of books concerned with processes ( e.g. Carson and Kirkby , 1972 ; Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) . |
| 30 | We also consider that requests for assistance should come through the Deputy Director Operations as arranged and not be dealt with in a haphazard way between unit commanders who are presumably not in the full operational picture . ’ |