Example sentences of "[prep] that [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of their arguments , such as that their professional standards were higher than could be maintained by law — as envisaged in the legislation — had a ring of truth to them . |
| 2 | And a as a result of that our positive cystoscopy rate was more comparable across the three groups than it was previously . |
| 3 | The Court 's decision is based on the fact that RTE 's refusal to license was arbitrary , in that its sole rationale was to preserve RTE 's monopoly in the publication of weekly information about its programmes : the Court said there was no justification in terms of the specific needs of the broadcasting sector or the activity of publishing television magazines . |
| 4 | A popular paper differed from this in that its large circulation ensured that newsprint and ink was its major cost category ( 36% ) , followed by production costs ( 30% ) and editorial costs ( 13% ) . |
| 5 | It is worth observing , furthermore , that even a committed liberal humanist teacher like Barbara Hardy found that opportunities to teach " against the environment were rare ; perhaps particularly so in that her own college ( Birkbeck ) worked within the examination-dominated regime of the University of London . |
| 6 | Also , the findings for the causal task indicate that even five-year-olds have some knowledge of the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning , in that their mean score is considerably higher than the score ( of 8 ) which one would expect if they were simply responding at chance level . |
| 7 | And the nihilistic Nobel laureate has a surprising affinity with sitcom pioneers such as Burns and Allen , in that his comedic roots are also in vaudeville . |
| 8 | Add to that our unfortunate preference for foreign goods rather than our own ( 25 per cent of what we spend as consumers is on imported products ) and it 's quite easy to see why the UK manufacturing base has become so fragile . |