Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I have to say that I know for definite that the force at that time only possessed two shields , er we kept one shield in the South of the county at and one shield North of the county and and hence that is why I went to the headquarters in the morning . |
2 | It was for reasons such as this that every attempt was made to bring a measure of order to war . |
3 | ‘ It is an accepted practice in dire situations such as this that the board is replaced or supplemented by a new board charged with the function of restoring the fortunes of the company and the confidence of customers , ’ the letter says . |
4 | Few Spanish statesmen could recognize that America was irretrievably lost ; it is only after 1820 that a handful of liberals talked of the ‘ inevitability ’ of the fruit falling from the tree . |
5 | The Third Department recommended in an official memorandum of 1861 that the government strive " to retain in its own hands the standard of the progressive movement which it itself has started " . |
6 | From then onwards , ‘ Fred T. Jane ’ became a recognized signature on bold black and white illustrations in a number of books and magazines ; so realistic was the picture in the Illustrated London News of the torpedoing of the ironclad Blanco Encalada in the Chilean revolutionary war of 1891 that a legend grew that Jane had been present at the action . |
7 | There is no requirement in the Act of 1986 that a right of appeal should be given to a person who is not the recipient of an intervention notice . |
8 | The consequence of this decline was that the government was able to say by the autumn of 1986 that the behaviour of M3 was no longer a reliable guide to monetary conditions and monetary targets were dropped in favour of discretionary interpretations of several ‘ indicators ’ including the exchange rate and the growth of nominal income itself . |
9 | It was not until towards the end of 1986 that the Stock Exchange Registered Representatives ' and Traders ' Exam was introduced . |
10 | Such an approach may demonstrate to the satisfaction of some that no crime is involved , but it is surely most unsatisfactory to rest the response of the law to what is seen as a testing moral and philosophical issue on some semantic sleight of hand . |
11 | It was by virtue of this that the clause was incorporated . |
12 | For research purposes , these are special burrows with removable lids and it was from one of these that a research student from Oxford University picked out an adult and a chick like rabbits from a hat . |
13 | It was at one of these that the Empress was provoked into a comment at the expense of her husband 's current favourite , the Countess of Castiglione , who had appeared at the ball dressed as the Queen of Hearts . |
14 | As a rule of thumb , we should explore the possible improvement of fit that a transformation would bring whenever the half-slope ratio is greater than 2 . |
15 | The movement remains remarkably strong : despite all that the government and economic collapse have done , TUC membership is still above the ten million mark , and many unions enjoy the loyalty and energetic commitment of tens of thousands of active members . |
16 | First , the pope asserted that it was upon evidence presented by Offa that Hadrian had based his judgement , Offa testifying that it was the unanimous wish of all that a pallium be sent to the bishop of Lichfield . |
17 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
18 | The Hybrid Tea ( abbreviated to H.T. ) is the type most gardeners regard as the epitome of all that a rose can and should be . |
19 | First of all that the Plan Two policy there is for vehicles over five years , sixty thousand miles . |
20 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
21 | The transmitted message contains details of all that the satellite has to do in the next period , in particular to implement the survey . |
22 | No sir I I do accept first of all that the capacity of the city should remain at thirty three . |
23 | The recent nomination of a woman as Assistant Bishop of Massachusetts , and the remarks of one diocesan bishop that ‘ the ordination of women to the priesthood must be achieved at practically any cost ’ will cause great despair and lead to grave questioning of all that the Church of England has stood for . |
24 | We asked people to keep a diary of what they were doing and to fill in this diary every half an hour , saying where they were , who they were with and what they were doing , and we were able to see erm first of all that the range of people that you meet decreases when you 're unemployed , that you 're actually spending more time alone , less time with friends and other people . |
25 | Well can I say first of all that the meeting to which you refer will take place this coming Monday and I suspect that it will be the first of possibly two or three meetings which I suspect are going to follow rather quickly , one after the other . |
26 | If this form of ‘ transition ’ becomes simply a retrograde return to passivity , it can be seen as a complete negation of all that the college course sought to encourage : |
27 | An inevitable by-product of all that the executive branch as a whole does is a vast amount of information , which assemblies need if they are to carry out their roles of law ratification and oversight of the bureaucracy . |
28 | First of all that the input can be grey scale of course instead of binary . |
29 | In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered . |
30 | But it was not until the autumn of 1981 that the bombshell finally exploded . |