Example sentences of "[conj] that [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " … the Church Yard of Kilmeny is quite open , never having been Inclosed. & that besides the Indecency thereof , the Grave Stones are much Injured by Horses and Cattle pasturing thereon … " ask for an estimate for building a stone wall . |
| 2 | And there was a new outpouring of rumours about Hitler 's health : that he was ill , mad , blind , had suffered a nervous breakdown , or that as a result of mental illness he had been forced to hand over the leadership of the State to the military , and had been shot . |
| 3 | Nothing is known of Bishop Æthelric 's connections , but it could be that if he had relatives they were among Cnut 's supporters , or that as an individual he was prepared to back the king , for he is said to have enjoyed the royal favour . |
| 4 | It was not at all necessary to say that I hoisted French colours , and therefore took the schooner unawares , or that at the time most of her men were on board of the Indiaman ; the great art in this world is , to know where to leave off , and in nothing more than when people take the pen in their hands . |
| 5 | For example , responses may confuse experience in the street with that at home , or that from the town in general with that in the neighbourhood in particular . |
| 6 | He was prepared to find that Kate had gone , or that in the meantime her boyfriend had turned up . |
| 7 | Iraq on Feb. 15 announced an offer to withdraw from Kuwait , complying with UN Security Council Resolution 660 , provided that ( i ) there was a complete ceasefire ; ( ii ) all subsequent resolutions on the conflict were annulled and economic sanctions lifted ; ( iii ) coalition forces withdrew completely from the region within one month of a ceasefire being declared ; ( iv ) Israel withdrew " from Palestine and the Arab territories it is occupying in the Golan and southern Lebanon " , or that in the event of its not doing so the UN passed against Israel resolutions identical to those passed against Iraq ; ( v ) Iraq 's " historical rights on land and at sea " were guaranteed ; and ( vi ) the " political arrangement to be agreed " should proceed from " the people 's will and in accordance with democratic practice " , and not on the basis of " the rights acquired by the al-Sabah family " . |
| 8 | Again , he failed to appreciate that the conspicuous consumption which was the fruit of successful emulation was not as invariably absurd as he made out , or that in the course of history world-wide they were responsible for the greatest architecture and other manifestations of high art . |
| 9 | In addition , it is open to the producer or director to show that he did not know or reasonably suspect that the offending programme would be included in a cable programme , or that in the context of the broadcast the programme would probably provoke racial hatred . |
| 10 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |
| 11 | Specifically , Sartre creates a single history by excluding all histories except that of the West ; his history as totalization can therefore only work through a determined ethnocentricity . |
| 12 | Here again was confirmation for Beaton that Vidor was ‘ America 's bravest director ’ , very much ‘ a student of the Russian and French schools ’ , but again his great fear was that the film would be a ‘ remarkable achievement ’ from every standpoint ‘ except that of the box office ’ . |
| 13 | If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals . |
| 14 | At the most basic level there is the rejection of any purpose in the pattern of human activities , except that of the instinct for survival itself , and the acceptance of a theory of cultural evolution which explains the origin of human values . |
| 15 | That is , they do this in every case except that of an exorcism ritual where the point is to make a deliberate display of violence and aggression , in the sense of ‘ intentionally causing suffering to another being ’ , to frighten the predatory spirits . |
| 16 | They have never been a part of Middlesbrough , except that for the Post Office 's convenience that town is used as an addition to their postal address . |
| 17 | Nothing wrong with that , except that on the end was speared a tuna fish sandwich . |
| 18 | Findspots and masons ' marks confirm Pausanias 's division of the subjects between east and west , and his order ( except that by a slip he omits the dragging of Cerberus from Hades ) . |
| 19 | All could be turned over except that by the stair opening and at the end of the canopy . |
| 20 | There was no light in the drawing-room except that from the fire , which was burning brightly and leaving deep shadows in the corner of the room . |
| 21 | Except that in the capital city of Palestine , a city covered with soldiers , it was possible to have Arab riots in which six Jews were slain and no soldiers around to prevent it . |
| 22 | It was not just a reason to indulge in nostalgia ; though the tradition was basically the same as it had always been , except that in the past the people had walked further in the processions . |
| 23 | The process is a bit like winnowing , the old method of using the wind to separate wheat from chaff , except that in the case of pyroclastic material there is no simple division into light material ( husks ) and heavy ( grain ) but a continuous gradation in sizes ( and therefore weight ) of particles from fine to coarse . |
| 24 | It is not clear why any of the clergy should be disqualified ( as opposed to restrained by their own professional ethics ) at all , except that in the case of the Church of England some sort of case can then be made out by reason of the right of bishops to sit in the House of Lords . |
| 25 | Except that in the case of Schaffhausen , there was a rather different reason , at least at first . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) An appeal under this section shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against or in a case where reasons for a decision have been given under section 18(2) of this Act , within 14 days from the date of receipt of those reasons , which shall be presumed to have been received on the day after the date on which they were posted , except that in the case of reasons posted on a Friday or Saturday , they shall be presumed to have been received on the Monday next following . |
| 27 | Otherwise there shall be an election in the House of Commons beginning within twenty-eight days of the opening of each new session of Parliament , except that in the case of a new Parliament the election shall be held not earlier than three months nor later than six months from the date of assembly of that Parliament . |
| 28 | Except that in the treachery of silence Jezrael finally lifted her head . |
| 29 | I honestly do n't think that the public walking past the building will actually notice very much , except that in the foyer , they 're going to be knocking down the sort of glass partition , so you , people will see that a little bit is going on . |
| 30 | Not Terry Place , who , as far as could be judged , had never met any of the Pitts except the girl , and that on a day that nearly killed him . |