Example sentences of "[coord] that [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could have been anywhere between twenty-five and forty , but Jezrael did n't care that her boss was n't wearing plastiface or that her hazel eyes looked like they might brim with mirth . |
| 2 | A number of people were granted exemption on the grounds either that they were too poor to pay taxes and rates or that they had a certificate signed by the minister and parish officers to the effect that their premises were worth not more than 1 per annum or that their personal property was worth less than £10 per annum ; however , no exemption was allowed anyone possessing more than two hearths . |
| 3 | There may develop a fear that they are uniquely abnormal or that their sexual practices are uniquely unnatural . |
| 4 | Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is . |
| 5 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 6 | Small wonder there is now talk in Bonn that the Social Democrats in the Bundesrat may block legislation ; that Mr Kohl , though chancellor , may be dumped by his party , as Ludwig Erhard once was ; or that his centre-right coalition with the Free Democrats will split , as the centre-left one led by Helmut Schmidt did in 1982 . |
| 7 | If you intertwine your fingers together , it is equally true to say that your right hand is in your left , or that your left hand is in your right . |
| 8 | This might be sensible if you were advised that your claim would be better presented in the formal atmosphere of the civil courts , or that your wrongful dismissal claim is so much more substantial that it will lead almost inevitably to a settlement of the lesser , unfair dismissal claim . |
| 9 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 10 | Sliding their arms around each other they clung together , and it did n't matter that he was bloated , nor that his tired sweat made his clothes stick clammily to his bulges . |
| 11 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 12 | It is ICI 's policy to manage all of its activities so as to give benefit to society , ensuring that they meet relevant laws and regulations ; that they are acceptable to the community at large ; and that their environmental impact is reduced to a practicable minimum . |
| 13 | The Sandinistas point out that many thousands of rebels are already back inside the country , and that their alleged attacks necessitated the ending of the ceasefire . |
| 14 | The records of female social workers trained in early twentieth-century Birmingham , however , showed that only 22 per cent of educated women had married and that their average age at marriage was 34 years , some nine years older than the norm . |
| 15 | It is frequently assumed that large corporations act in roughly the same manner , whether they are part of the public or the private sector , and that their industrial relations follow the same pattern , too . |
| 16 | Dr Lewis , however , has assumed that these walls belong to the external portico ( his Table 1 ) and that their great size was necessary to support the solid podium . |
| 17 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 18 | Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges . |
| 19 | It is worth bearing in mind , though , that his three oceans are in fact all part of one , and that their individual behaviours are all part of the overall behaviour of the planet 's hydrosphere , where all winds and currents , ambient temperatures and barometric pressures — and , just possibly , all human behaviour too — are part of one hugely complicated , ever-mobile , mathematically-insufferable and only marginally predictable global machine . |
| 20 | What they have not yet recognised is that , if that is normality , if those are the institutions the system requires and that their normal behaviour , then the system is wrong and another is needed , a new economic model which will mark an advance from the sterile confrontation between Capitalism and Socialism , thesis and antithesis , to the synthesis providing a long overdue advance in democratic practice and a means of treating the chronic and disabling debility of the national economy . |
| 21 | Weighing it all up , Ramsay came to the conclusion that the chances of capturing the usurper at this stage were all but non-existent , and that their wisest course was to return at once with his dire news to the main Scots array in Annandale or wherever it had reached by now . |
| 22 | It 's not good enough to say that by becoming international stars they are compensated by the kudos this brings with it and that their personal fame enables them to cash in . |
| 23 | Keeping complexity within prescribed limits ensures that the purpose and function of IT systems can be perceived by clients and users ( which eliminates frustration and alienation ) and that their internal structure is perceivable to those involved with their design , production and maintenance ( which , for example , increases reliability and modifiability ) . |
| 24 | The final communiqué said that OECD member countries would " take urgent steps to reform agricultural policy " and that their long-term objective was to allow " market signals to influence the orientation of agricultural production and to establish a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system " . |
| 25 | They decided that the undercover plotters would be most afraid of publicity and political pressure and that their best hope would be to find an influential member of parliament who would believe their story . |
| 26 | Apart from the irrelevant actor there , it seems worth observing that the sonnets are not in fact dialogues , but either monologues or poems of direct address , and that their dramatic quality is due to a sustained effort of imagination rather than the conditioning of a career . |
| 27 | Prime Minister John Major announced to the House of Commons on Dec. 9 that the Prince and Princess of Wales , who married in 1981 [ see p. 31116 ] , were to separate but that they had no plans to divorce and that their constitutional positions were unaffected , adding : " There is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned queen in due course . " |
| 28 | ‘ While it is understandable that the media will home in on failures , it is important that the public should be reassured that such cases are very much the exception , rather than the rule , and that their continuing confidence in the profession is justified . ’ |
| 29 | Sir : Tony Colston-Hayter of World Wide Productions ( letter , October 11 ) , in defending ‘ dance music warehouse parties ’ and welcoming the licensing of such parties , suggests that ‘ so-called ‘ acid parties ’ ' are a ‘ sensationalist fantasy of the gutter press ’ , and that their massive popularity is ‘ partly due to the fact that we offer all-night dancing ’ . |
| 30 | Particularly in dealing with civil service officials or elected political leaders there are obvious objections to assuming that their class origins and educational backgrounds decisively shape their political attitudes , and that their social origins and political attitudes jointly determine their policy-making behaviour ( Meier , 1975 ) . |