Example sentences of "[conj] that a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be suggested that the workmen who had made the trinkets and votive objects for visitors continued to use their technical skill for profit , or that a new land-owner was exploiting the commercial potential of the local labour . |
| 2 | Or that a comprehensive test ban might not be possible — even desirable — at some point in the future . |
| 3 | Implicitly , there are two types of new entry , one with a secure customer base , and one assuming " speculatively " that business can be taken from other houses or that a suitable share of any incremental business can be obtained . |
| 4 | This is not , of course , to say that an impecunious clerk or curate was of equal status with a great lay lord , duke or count , or that a simple peasant woman had the rights of a noble lady , for medieval society was a stratified , or hierarchical , one , in which power was conceived as coming downwards from God to His spiritual and temporal vice-gerents : popes , emperors , kings and bishops . |
| 5 | Others have suggested that an appropriate interfacial free energy is necessary , or that a hydrophobic surface would be useful , or that an albumin coated surface would solve the problem . |
| 6 | They tell us that a stonemason 's third marriage at 57 was his happiest ; or that a retired doctor found ‘ life was for a time difficult ’ for lack of ‘ any special hobbies . ’ |
| 7 | Modern interpretation of elite theories seek to show either that key policy offices are held by people from a narrow spectrum of social origins , or that a limited number of people , characterized by close links with one another , dominate decision-making roles . |
| 8 | Similar fact evidence , that is evidence that a person has acted in a similar way in the past or that a similar situation has arisen previously , is admissible in certain circumstances . |
| 9 | Physicians may favour age criteria because they believe that the elderly are unlikely to benefit from treatment , that any benefit these patients enjoy will be of short duration , or that a diminished quality of life after treatment negates any possible benefit . |
| 10 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |
| 11 | This ensures that complete tables and only complete tables are approved , or that a single oddball entry and only a single oddball entry is approved . |
| 12 | Except in the case of a mandatory offer , until such time as a firm intention to make an offer is notified , a brief announcement that talks are taking place , or that a potential offeror is considering making an offer , will satisfy the obligation under Rule 2.2 . |
| 13 | There 's this feeling that your polymorphonuclear leucocytes have lost their grip , that the brain has gone , or that a slow virus has chosen its moment . |
| 14 | Among them , the suggestion that during surgery her head was n't properly supported , or that a surgical hammer used in the operation was applied with so much force that it damaged her spinal cord . |
| 15 | Thereafter till the end of the century Cyrene virtually disappears from the record except that a Cyrenaean individual helped Athenian survivors of the Sicilian disaster of 413 ( IGi 3 125 ; Dem . |
| 16 | It may appear that we consider that every problem with a legal component requires legal assistance , for we have not proposed any other criterion for the provision of legal services than that a legal problem exists . |
| 17 | And if national sentiment in the other , France , was initially a response to the threat from England , just as it was in Scotland , there was no doubt of France 's position by the end of the fifteenth century ; the dazzling army and glittering artillery train which Charles VIII led down through the length of Italy in 1494 — for no good reason other than that a young king , with a well-stuffed treasury , would naturally use his wealth to win military renown — symbolized in the most spectacular manner what this kingdom , so recently weakened by war and internal dissension , had now become . |
| 18 | A woman who worked in Burtons said the roof on the shop had been blown off and that a next-door restaurant and bakery had also been completely wrecked . |
| 19 | They suddenly realize that they have become obedient parents and that a tyrannical toddler is effectively ‘ running ’ the household . |
| 20 | The government insists that it will only be restarted if it passes stringent safety tests , and that a technical council composed of Russian , American , French and German experts will oversee its operation . |
| 21 | Both participants are aware of the starting point , and that a final goal has to be achieved at the other side of the map , stopping at various intermediate points on the way ( see Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 22 | With more equipment coming on the market , WHO decided that Cali should concentrate on long-term research and that a full-time test facility was needed in Europe . |
| 23 | With an infinite adjustment depth of cutting control mounted on the front of the machine , coupled to the TCT mini blades , the power to produce 3200 cuts per minute and a non-marking die-cast aluminium base , all mean accuracy , and that a professional finish is made so much easier . |
| 24 | ‘ I was initially impressed by this argument , ’ Lord Bingham wrote , ‘ feeling that a duty imposed by statute would in practice be hard to enforce , that the existence of a professional duty has become very well known and that a professional guideline could more easily be adapted to meet changing circumstance than a duty enshrined in statute . ’ |
| 25 | The sign outside the grocer 's shop in Queen Street informed passers-by that ‘ Henry Lawson 's One-Horse Coach Office ’ was in the back shop , and that a loud knock on the window was required . |
| 26 | By the end of March it had been announced that the coup organizers had disbanded their Council of National Reconciliation ( CRN ) and that a 25-member Transition Committee for the Salvation of the People ( CTSP ) had been established , with 10 military and 15 civilian members . |
| 27 | American bureaucrats did not comprehend the speed of change in Korea and that a potent sense of nationalism with a corresponding ardent wish for the unification and independence of the country existed in August 1945 . |
| 28 | It is welcome that the TECs are administering that scheme and that a minimum reward is at least available in that situation . |
| 29 | It is hoped that the acceptance of these recommendations will lead to all members being offered a greatly improved service by the Society and that a democratic system of elections for Executive Committee members will be ensured . |
| 30 | The predominant interest of much of the historical work , especially the early work , on household composition , was to examine one of the key elements in the idea of a golden age of family support — that in the past it was common for members of the extended family actually to live together , and that a major effect of industrialization was to shrink the household , typically to the nuclear family unit . |