Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker expressed grave concern at the Bootle killing and attacked various institutions for the fact that society has become more violent and selfish . |
| 2 | Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the reasons for the unemployment that exists in that part of Islington is the way in which the political friends of the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) run Islington council ? |
| 3 | ‘ I have already indicated my agreement with the views of my noble and learned friend , Lord Diplock , as expressed in O'Reilly v. Mackman [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 237 , and I gratefully adopt all his reasons for the conclusion that : ‘ it would … as a general rule be contrary to public policy , and as such an abuse of the process of the court , to permit a person seeking to establish that a decision of a public authority infringed rights to which he was entitled to protection under public law to proceed by way of an ordinary action and by this means to evade the provisions of Order 53 for the protection of such authorities . ’ |
| 4 | This is one of the main reasons for the statement that an engineer can only do his own job well if he understands those of the other functions in his company . |
| 5 | They are not the reasons for the torture that I would be suffering in his place . |
| 6 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 7 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 8 | It is obviously not necessary to cite cases for the proposition that there has been a considerable development in the scope of judicial review in the second half of this century . |
| 9 | There are several candidates for the toxin that might cause toxic shock syndrome . |
| 10 | The 8100 is the more compelling indicator of what might happen to OS/2 2.0 : IBM spent so much money developing both the hardware and a completely new operating environment and set of compilers and utilities for the thing that it had to recoup its investment , come hell or high water , before it could be killed off , despite the fact that within a couple of years , it became clear that what users wanted as a distributed processor was the machine that eventually appeared — fatally too late — as the 9370 . |
| 11 | It will raise fresh worries for the Government that the much hoped-for consumer spending upturn remains beyond the horizon . |
| 12 | That diagnosis is not far distant from Disraeli 's own ; it is in their prescriptions for the future that they differ . |
| 13 | Noticing the way the young woman 's eyes had glazed over with undisguised longing , while he appeared faintly bored with the proceedings , Shannon had mentally given thanks for the fact that she was n't drawn to gorgeous , self-centred hunks like this one . |
| 14 | Although famed for rattling off statistics on the recession , rather than the ‘ vision thing ’ , his Sovereignty Lecture for Charter 88 at the start of the election campaign set out some useful parameters for the debate that must now take place : on citizenship and community , ‘ not just tidying up our constitution but transforming it ’ . |
| 15 | How many disabled people , after being assessed for services under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1979 , are now on waiting lists for the help that they need ? |
| 16 | I am deeply grateful to my parents for the fact that until I was twelve years old and started at the grammar school , I was completely unaware of class distinctions . |
| 17 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 18 | That were just the temporary passes for the motorway that we had to return to department . |
| 19 | Generally , once a settlor has put property into a settlement he will have alienated the income therefrom for income tax purposes for the period that it is held in trust . |
| 20 | But nothing could have prepared the troops in the trenches for the carnage that was to follow . |
| 21 | ‘ How is Christine , these days ? ’ she said as she worked along the racks , pulling out the second set of changes for the show that was just about to start . |
| 22 | If after the addition of the agent used , the pH is outside the limits 6–8 , then correction should be made by the addition of small amounts of alkali or acid at the same time as the flocculant. laboratory trials should always be made to ascertain the most effective dosing conditions for the water that is to be treated . |
| 23 | I pay tribute to Michael Hurst , the chief constable , and his senior and other officers for the work that they are doing . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State for Employment opened the debate and has given my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) and myself his apologies for the fact that he is now absent . |
| 25 | Earlier in the day Kaifu had made an unprecedentedly explicit apology to Roh , expressing his " sincere remorse and honest apologies for the fact that there was a period in our history in which Japanese actions inflicted unbearable suffering and sorrow on the people of the Korean peninsula " . |
| 26 | If we house them we need to look after all the people , we make no apologies for the fact that this is a budget slanted towards equal opportunities and to an anti-poverty strategy and that is something that we will fight to preserve and we would expect support from at least some quarters in order to achieve an egalitarian status in this city . |
| 27 | Clearly , it is for United Kingdom manufacturers to compete as subcontractors for the work that will be placed out by Harland and Wolff . |
| 28 | It 's ironic that you should still make excuses for the fact that the band can play really well , yet there 's nothing here that ca n't be appreciated on the level of a blues number . |
| 29 | It 's ironic that you should still make excuses for the fact that the band can play really well , yet there 's nothing here that ca n't be appreciated on the level of a blues number . |
| 30 | The plaintiff 's solicitors must make regular checks ( and it is a good idea for the defendant 's insurers and solicitors to do the same ) on the wage rates at regular intervals , and not only on the rates for the job that the plaintiff would have been doing but the rate for any job into which he might have been promoted but for the accident . |