Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We live in a cause-and-effect world and feel uncomfortable if we can not discover the reasons for the events that surround us . |
| 2 | This may seem blindingly obvious to the newcomer to the discipline , but there were very good reasons for the disputes that took place . |
| 3 | So too with all other conditionals : letters in lower case for events , conditions , and the like , the same letters in upper case for the statements that the event occurred or the condition existed . |
| 4 | Richmond bureau has overcome the conflict between the need for support and the interruptions that this entails by formally assigning an experienced advice worker the task of support during the hours that the bureau is open to the public . |
| 5 | And , with luck , not long after that we will have in our very own editorial offices an electronic excuse for the mistakes that occasionally slide into these pages . |
| 6 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 7 | This was strengthened by the American admission during the exchanges that they proposed to recognise the RDC as the official consultative body in the south . |
| 8 | ’ And all the activities for the children that one can attend — sports days , Christmas parties , the Mod — you can get involved in them along with the children . |
| 9 | Mill-designing architects and mill builders avoided any superfluous decoration , dispensing with the external rendering and cornices between the storeys that would have been demanded by classical precedent . |
| 10 | Take some coffee up , or tea up and leave it there and in payment for the drinks that you 've had . |
| 11 | In The School of charity , Evelyn Underhill draws a parallel between the changes that take place when the Holy Spirit is working in us and the effect of yeast on dough . |
| 12 | And then , almost overnight , energised and full of enthusiasm for the ideas that had emerged from our long discussions of the research evidence ’ . |
| 13 | Pavel Zhikarev , who stood down as chairman after 25 years at Sberbank , laid the foundations for the changes that lie ahead . |
| 14 | It is more than a year since the red and white surveyors ' poles glinted above the reeds , blazing a trail for the draglines that were soon to follow . |
| 15 | A much more dramatic break with the current political tradition is required if progress is to be made in building support for the policies that could spring Britain 's underclass from its current position . |
| 16 | The available statistics offer some support for the allegations that there was much perjury . |
| 17 | So parents tend not to hear about the things that really go on a lot of the time in nearly all schools and they do hear a bit about the things that are a little bit different , so they can get quite a distorted picture of , of what 's going on . |
| 18 | Well let's talk , let's talk a little bit about the personnel that you 've got on the City Council now and the kinds of services in general that you 're providing . |
| 19 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 20 | ‘ Ours was a humble part of the operation but we were all full of admiration for the crews that carried out the raid in such difficult conditions . ’ |
| 21 | The clauses in the bill and the Government 's proposals for the regualtions that will follow from them , raise some fundamental issues . |
| 22 | Intermediate values are seen for tawny owls and great grey owls ( 50–60 per cent ) , and high values for the owls that also showed greatest damage to the maxilla , the short-eared owl , spotted eagle owl and European eagle owl ( 80–90 per cent ) . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it seems clear that there are relatively few ranges of values for the numbers that would allow the development of any form of intelligent life . |
| 24 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 25 | Whatever the motivation , these amalgamations may happen several times during the months that he cares for the flock . |
| 26 | There was none of the humour you usually saw in it , and there was a fixed look about the eyes that I found almost frightening . |
| 27 | If this sort of technology was introduced into commercial-sized refrigeration plants , they could be turned off during peak times and then switched back on during low demand periods , saving money for the companies that own them and using less energy . |
| 28 | So people gave us money for the stamps that we put on and other people gave us donations . |
| 29 | It seems probable that it was not until the doubling in the size of crowds between the wars that the ‘ rough ’ as opposed to the ‘ respectable ’ working class was fully represented as a proportion of the total population . |
| 30 | ‘ OK , I wo n't try to battle my way past all that camouflage for the treasures that lie beneath . |