Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campese dismissed the matter , but when he chose to put less confidence in the cover on the field and deliberately knocked down Peter Winterbottom 's pass , Bevan should have taken that as an admission that the so-far impregnable ‘ Gold Wall ’ was about to be breached . |
| 2 | I took that as an indication that I could play him every match . |
| 3 | I was glad to read late in the article of the NRA 's positive attitude to the potential problem , and hope that farmers will take this as a sign that the task of improvement of farm waste management systems is not as dire in every case as many people would have us believe . |
| 4 | Joseph 's special robe ( 3 ) : Joseph 's brothers saw this as a sign that Isaac intended to pass them by and make Joseph his heir ( see 48:21–22 and 49:22ff . ) . |
| 5 | The appointment of John Moore in 1987 as Secretary of State at the DHSS was seen by some as a signal that the welfare programme would receive a dose of Thatcherism . |
| 6 | He gave me one half of a clasp that belonged to the Lion of Venice . |
| 7 | Mention was made by some of a belief that Blacks get custodial sentences more often . |
| 8 | Screwy sort of argument — I mean , what she was really saying was half right on the nail , and half like a whirlpool that sucks everything into it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ THE man and boy walked along the London street trying to keep clear of the gutter , the man hurrying , clutching the boy with sharp , bony fingers , turning down one dark alley then another like a rat that has learned its way through a maze . ’ |
| 10 | The executive Commission welcomed Mr Clinton 's commitment to agreeing a GATT world trade deal , but coupled this with a warning that any recourse to protectionism to spark economic recovery could lead to disaster . |
| 11 | There was a lot more rhubarb , along the lines of ‘ Yes , what ? ’ and ‘ What are we going to sing , brothers ? ’ and then Mrs Quigley cut in over the top of this with a cadenza that would not have disgraced Dame Kiri Te Kanawa . |
| 12 | It is not too much to say that the probabilistic analyses must revise this into a belief that many effects are not made to happen . |
| 13 | He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request . |
| 14 | She amplifies this in a way that is helpful to the teacher by explaining that the term is used to describe the total group of children whose vision is affected by impairments in seeing , irrespective of the nature or extent of these . |
| 15 | They 've all got a vision about their listeners , their viewers , their readers and so forth , and when they pick something , a press release , or when they hear a story or something like that , their mind 's going click click click ‘ How can I use this in a way that I can turn it into a form which is usable for my people ? ’ in a sense . |
| 16 | Richard Cecil dealt with this in a sermon that in its day was much admired and was published with the title , A Friendly Visit to the House of Mourning : |
| 17 | In that incomparable verse Racine surely articulates the classical and terrible conception that underlies also Virgil 's treatment of Dido : sexual passion , the erotic , understood as one undifferentiated energy running wild , fastening itself seemingly at random on this person or that one , and switching from one to another in a way that discredits all human vows of constancy . |
| 18 | The kind of structure the authors mostly discuss is to do with how to move from one dramatic experience into another in a way that tightens the pupils ' grip on the central issue . |
| 19 | Although nothing became of this beyond an agreement that there were widely different views on the matter , that same year the Government of Australia proposed that the so called cull grenade should be banned . |
| 20 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |
| 21 | His head looked like that of a statue that someone had found and rolled home so that all the delicate parts had broken off . |
| 22 | The context of anthropology is that of a discourse that attempts to generalize and encompass other discourses , such as those of myth-telling . |
| 23 | The story is that of a table that went wrong . |
| 24 | It would not be consistent with the obligation for a national court to be subject to a precondition such as a requirement that it may not look behind the text of a national implementing measure unless it is first found to be ambiguous . |
| 25 | When all the possible beneficiaries are of full age and under no disability ( such as that of an infant or lunatic ) , they may put an end to the trust by requiring the trustee to transfer the property to them or to dispose of it according to their directions ; and this is so in spite of any direction to the contrary in the settlement , such as a direction that payment is not to be made to a beneficiary till he reaches the age of 25 . |
| 26 | Devilish-sounding fixes , such as a rule that all company cars must carry the corporate logo in letters two feet high , would involve more government snooping than the problem is worth . |
| 27 | They each have stringent but achievable targets such as a commitment that 99 per cent of deliveries will be case-accurate — no easy matter when ten million cases are delivered each week . |
| 28 | But the remedies given by the sections include personal remedies , such as an order that the recipient of property transfer it back to the company , or an order that the other party to a transaction pay a sum of money to the trustee of the bankrupt 's estate . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , there is just as much of a chance that you will win through your difficulties as there is of reaching the point of throwing in the towel . |
| 30 | And , with hindsight , it is not too much of a surprise that the whole hemisphere can be affected before the dust veil spreads northward out of the tropics . |