Example sentences of "[prep] that [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the things that make us afraid , and we build ourselves secure places so as that we ca n't or do n't have any need to be afraid . |
| 2 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 3 | It 's got a steel bolt with two steel rollers in there , so that if , even somebody tried to hacksaw their way through that it will just slide along as soon as . |
| 4 | If hunting were banned on all of that it would only have a small marginal effect but we can as Mr said only ban hunting on land we both own and control , land in hand , that actually totals a hundred and fifty eight acres , slightly smaller than Victoria Park but that includes road , bridleways , land with no access , S S S Is , Sites of Special Scientific Interest , land awaiting disposal the land capable of being hunted and in hand totals fifty two acres about as much of Victoria Park as I can see from my front window . |
| 5 | I would n't do that gave vouchers looks as though you ca n't be bothered she knows I 'm getting that voucher of that I 'll probably go and see something . |
| 6 | ‘ In spite of that I ca n't bring myself to thank J Edgar Hoover . ’ |
| 7 | yeah , before you commit things to paper do be very very careful make sure that it 's not just because you 're in a bad mood or something like that they can always come back and . |
| 8 | Er had had such a record , I mean if he 'd smashed just er a lampshade or something like that it would n't have been so bad , but to actually get rid of a third of all the crockery in one fell sloop was er well it was fairly excessive . |
| 9 | with a piece of china or something like that it 'll just break . |
| 10 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 11 | ‘ Our first-half performance was disappointing in that we could n't hold the ball up front . |
| 12 | However , such theories have limited predictive capability in that we can not measure the individual 's perception of values . |
| 13 | We had a long series of various pieces of research , one of which was actually talk to enormous amount of customers through customer and as a consequence of that we 've we decided to form a fairly business to produce a very different pair of stores , different in that they wo n't trade in the traditional way that M F Is gone ah they 'll carry different merchandise , different price lines . |
| 14 | In most cases the 1988 Education Act offers blanket cover for governors in that they will not be held responsible , financially or otherwise , for their actions and decisions as long as at all times they have acted in good faith . |
| 15 | Just to make matters more difficult , certain varieties are ‘ incompatible ’ in that they will not cross-pollinate successfully with certain other varieties , eg , ‘ Williams ’ and ‘ Louise Bonne de Jersey ’ . |
| 16 | The first is a recognition that much of what has been described above already exists , but needs to be made explicit and systematic ; and secondly , there must be a recognition that partial attempts to change are almost inevitably doomed to fail in that they will always be compromised and administered by the history and culture of many schools . |
| 17 | Although this characteristic is to some extent a handicap in that they can not be used , for instance , with boiling water , there are very great manufacturing advantages since the stuff can be squirted out hot in the form of tubes and sections or else into an elaborately shaped mould where it can be hardened almost instantaneously by rapid chilling . |
| 18 | However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) . |
| 19 | All the other possibilities are highly context-bound , in that they can only appear in relatively explicit contexts-compare the a and b sentences in the following : |
| 20 | In addition , some lords , both ecclesiastical and secular , were privileged ( privilegiati ) in that they could not be forced to transfer their allegiance to another lord against their will . |
| 21 | Items which are physically attached to the front cover gain in that they could not really be more prominently displayed and are bound to reach all the purchasers of the magazine . |
| 22 | The statutory demand was admittedly excessive in that it ought not to have included the sum of £146-odd mentioned above . |
| 23 | It could also be questioned whether a system of specialised representatives is desirable in that it may not produce a group of people willing to take an overall view of the question . |
| 24 | Sales promotion is typical of this in that it need not cost a lot of money and its success can be clearly evaluated in terms of turnover and profit objectives . ’ |
| 25 | In many practical cases the program will be deterministic , in that it can not diverge and never has any choice over what to communicate or what to assign to its free variables . |
| 26 | Drinking with meals the correct way can actually be ‘ slimming ’ , in that it can helpfully add to the time it takes to consume high-fibre meals . |
| 27 | Of course , in that I should probably fail . |
| 28 | And in that I can only speak for the Harrogate District erm but the situation may well apply to other districts . |
| 29 | The effect is rather like being in a sensory deprivation tank , in that you ca n't move or react at all . |
| 30 | " It 's not like other sports , in that you ca n't watch a tournament unfold in front of you . |