Example sentences of "[conj] [that] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could have been anywhere between twenty-five and forty , but Jezrael did n't care that her boss was n't wearing plastiface or that her hazel eyes looked like they might brim with mirth . |
| 2 | A number of people were granted exemption on the grounds either that they were too poor to pay taxes and rates or that they had a certificate signed by the minister and parish officers to the effect that their premises were worth not more than 1 per annum or that their personal property was worth less than £10 per annum ; however , no exemption was allowed anyone possessing more than two hearths . |
| 3 | There may develop a fear that they are uniquely abnormal or that their sexual practices are uniquely unnatural . |
| 4 | Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is . |
| 5 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 6 | Small wonder there is now talk in Bonn that the Social Democrats in the Bundesrat may block legislation ; that Mr Kohl , though chancellor , may be dumped by his party , as Ludwig Erhard once was ; or that his centre-right coalition with the Free Democrats will split , as the centre-left one led by Helmut Schmidt did in 1982 . |
| 7 | If you intertwine your fingers together , it is equally true to say that your right hand is in your left , or that your left hand is in your right . |
| 8 | This might be sensible if you were advised that your claim would be better presented in the formal atmosphere of the civil courts , or that your wrongful dismissal claim is so much more substantial that it will lead almost inevitably to a settlement of the lesser , unfair dismissal claim . |
| 9 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 10 | Sliding their arms around each other they clung together , and it did n't matter that he was bloated , nor that his tired sweat made his clothes stick clammily to his bulges . |
| 11 | Brokers need to satisfy the Authority in a similar fashion except that their issued capital may not be less than 5 million forints in case of a Kft and 10 million forints in the case of a joint-stock company . |
| 12 | It was like a confession , a purging , except that her only sin had been an over-zealous curiosity , a need to discover who killed her father . |
| 13 | Herculaneum suffered equally badly , except that there underground shafts and tunnels had to be driven to get at the antiquities . |
| 14 | He did n't seem to come into it , anyway , except that his own wealth would cushion whatever blow Stavanger 's daughter might suffer from her father 's odd behaviour . |
| 15 | Whole tribes of proud and even magnificent people have at times sat down and died for no other reason than that their ancient culture has been exposed , even briefly , to one that seems to belong to a superior order . |
| 16 | And if they 'd a bigger place than that there little rectory , there would n't be a stick of furniture neither ! ’ |
| 17 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 18 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 19 | It is ICI 's policy to manage all of its activities so as to give benefit to society , ensuring that they meet relevant laws and regulations ; that they are acceptable to the community at large ; and that their environmental impact is reduced to a practicable minimum . |
| 20 | The Sandinistas point out that many thousands of rebels are already back inside the country , and that their alleged attacks necessitated the ending of the ceasefire . |
| 21 | The records of female social workers trained in early twentieth-century Birmingham , however , showed that only 22 per cent of educated women had married and that their average age at marriage was 34 years , some nine years older than the norm . |
| 22 | It is frequently assumed that large corporations act in roughly the same manner , whether they are part of the public or the private sector , and that their industrial relations follow the same pattern , too . |
| 23 | Dr Lewis , however , has assumed that these walls belong to the external portico ( his Table 1 ) and that their great size was necessary to support the solid podium . |
| 24 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 25 | Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges . |
| 26 | It is worth bearing in mind , though , that his three oceans are in fact all part of one , and that their individual behaviours are all part of the overall behaviour of the planet 's hydrosphere , where all winds and currents , ambient temperatures and barometric pressures — and , just possibly , all human behaviour too — are part of one hugely complicated , ever-mobile , mathematically-insufferable and only marginally predictable global machine . |
| 27 | What they have not yet recognised is that , if that is normality , if those are the institutions the system requires and that their normal behaviour , then the system is wrong and another is needed , a new economic model which will mark an advance from the sterile confrontation between Capitalism and Socialism , thesis and antithesis , to the synthesis providing a long overdue advance in democratic practice and a means of treating the chronic and disabling debility of the national economy . |
| 28 | Weighing it all up , Ramsay came to the conclusion that the chances of capturing the usurper at this stage were all but non-existent , and that their wisest course was to return at once with his dire news to the main Scots array in Annandale or wherever it had reached by now . |
| 29 | It 's not good enough to say that by becoming international stars they are compensated by the kudos this brings with it and that their personal fame enables them to cash in . |
| 30 | Keeping complexity within prescribed limits ensures that the purpose and function of IT systems can be perceived by clients and users ( which eliminates frustration and alienation ) and that their internal structure is perceivable to those involved with their design , production and maintenance ( which , for example , increases reliability and modifiability ) . |