Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is just 21 months since we received approval to go ahead with the project , and we are delighted that we have started up production within a few weeks of a date that many thought was unrealistic ! ’ |
| 2 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 3 | He gives us no sign that he believes God will provide a substitute at the last moment , no sign of a conviction that all will be well in the end . |
| 4 | There is an old Middle Eastern story about a frog ( in some versions it is a fish ) and a scorpion who meet on the bank of a river that both need to cross . |
| 5 | It is a very short step for a human being , endowed with imagination as humans undoubtedly are , and possessed of a belief that some creature or possession can bring comfort to him , to start to call upon that object of his belief , from a distance . |
| 6 | For instance , deliberately setting Sarah Tobias ( Jodie Foster ) up in the extreme of a situation that many people — women and men — would say was ’ asking for it ’ , and graphically giving the lie to that pernicious concept . |
| 7 | It is something of a revelation that this memory from over thirty years ago should have remained with Miss Kenton as it has done with me . |
| 8 | Care must be taken during negotiations with or on behalf of a target that any group relief claims are not jeopardised by the existence of an ‘ arrangement ’ to sell . |
| 9 | It is moreover mistaken to view the twentieth century cases which limited natural justice through manipulation of the administrative-judicial dichotomy as doing so primarily because of a feeling that those categorised as administrative would be unsuited to adjudicative procedures . |
| 10 | Before I start it is worth pointing out that this problem is largely restricted to the users of the Apple Macintosh — PC-based software running under either Windows or GEM seems to be rather better behaved although , in the case of the former , installing downloadable fonts is so much of a pain that many people simply do n't bother anyway ! |
| 11 | can tell many stories about this gun and recently , when another gun er was being assembled for transporting to another country , was able to explain with the aid of a photograph that such guns have existed and this received publicity in the Telegraph and Argus . |
| 12 | A taxi firm run by women for women says it plans to carry on operating despite a ruling that such services discriminate against men . |
| 13 | That change is one of attitude , attitude towards a computer that many MIS managers regarded until recently as ‘ a toy ’ or ‘ that thing with a mouse ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't believe for a second that those markets exist in the same fashion these days . ’ |
| 15 | You do n't believe for a minute that this government will stand by while the two biggest general unions get together , no way , they 'll attack us in any way they can and I warn ya they have n't run out of ideas yet . |
| 16 | The next day we went to Breckland to look for a bird that some people think of as ‘ a bit of a bustard ’ . |
| 17 | He petitioned the visitor of the university for a declaration that such purported dismissal was contrary to section 34 so as to be ultra vires the university 's powers and accordingly invalid . |
| 18 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 19 | Section 10 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and s.213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 together provide that if in the course of winding up it appears that any business of the company has been carried on with intent to defraud creditors of the company or other persons , or for any fraudulent purpose , the liquidator may apply to the court for a declaration that any persons who were knowingly parties to such fraudulent trading are liable to make such contributions to the company 's assets as the court thinks proper . |
| 20 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 21 | If the shampoo-swilling celebrants of the City , or for that matter the likes of true-blue Sheppard , think for a moment that this man is likely to preside over unfettered mergers and acquisitions activity in the recalcitrant manner of his 12 predecessors since 1979 , they are hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 22 | I am not suggesting for a moment that this kind of problem can be resolved merely by putting more resources in , but at the same time there is need to spend more money , perhaps . |
| 23 | I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure . |
| 24 | I know for a fact that these nets were back in the river , in the hands of poachers , a very short time after they have been captured by the commission . ’ |
| 25 | The plan set out in a letter to the union is being seen as a sign that all thirty one pits earmarked for closure last year , will now shut . |
| 26 | Alex Goldfarb , executive director of the ISF and formerly a biochemist at the Engelhardt Institute in Moscow , sees the gap between the number of applicants and the number of eligible scientists as a sign that many of his colleagues have left the country for greener pastures in the West or have taken up another occupation . |
| 27 | The high level of criminal litigation which ensued was taken as a sign that this policy had failed . |
| 28 | He had already edited several popular movie magazines , but it was because of Bazin 's reputation as a theoretician that this new one , more highbrow , attracted from its first publication in 1951 a group of young , enthusiastic and iconoclastic critics . |
| 29 | Goulding J found as a fact that all parts of the sales information had been used for the purposes of the defendant 's business and he divided information into three categories where it was not the subject of any express provision : ( 1 ) Information which because of its triviality or public accessibility was not confidential at all . |
| 30 | ‘ It is important for their standing as a profession that such antics by the few are never repeated . |