Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [be] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That 's fine when the help and support is there , ’ said Rachel coolly , then , allowing her eyes to meet his , she said , ‘ It 's when that support is withdrawn that the real tragedy occurs . ’
2 Do you actually mean that you want this if that case were proven that you would want the regional shopping centre in the new settlement ?
3 In essence the result of this change was to ensure that when a contractor made a payment to a sub-contractor holding a tax certificate issued by the Inland Revenue , the sub-contractor could be paid in full .
4 The simple solution in this case is to ensure that all food remains out of their reach .
5 But another part is determined that if there is a few bob about then I want my share ’ .
6 Another way of formulating this criterion is to say that only a semantic deviance can be taken as a ‘ figure of speech ’ .
7 The aim of this chapter is to show that you are often your own worst enemy in learning and to look at how you can best go about teaching yourself .
8 He considered his notes ; what he needed from this interview was to confirm that Angela Morgan had not been in the office on Saturday , and a statement of Peter Yeo 's movements over the period within which Angela Morgan had probably been killed .
9 The obvious way out of this dilemma is to say that the currents are there — inside the magnetic material .
10 But it was saying , er this , this programme was saying that that erm that they were buying a house .
11 The ostensible purposes of this Act were to ensure that an adequate supply of bodies was available for dissection in the teaching hospitals and anatomy schools , whilst eliminating the nefarious activities of the body-snatchers , whose commerce had nourished the medical profession .
12 The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate that energy does radiate from the body and that there is more to the human being than guts , blood and bone .
13 While a major contribution of this work was to show that apparently meaningless differences in form were in fact carriers of social and stylistic meaning , the 1983 paper attempts on the other hand to demonstrate that forms which are referentially equivalent carry neither social nor stylistic meaning , but are constrained almost entirely by their syntactic environment .
14 One of the purposes of this publication is to demonstrate that conveyancing is not simply a job to be done as cheaply as possible .
15 The purpose of this requirement was to ensure that the bill market was adequately funded .
16 Where the requirements of the model are satisfied it can thus with some truth be said that there is an ‘ utter dispersion of power ’ .
17 One simple way of describing this difference is to say that speech act theory is interested in the social rather than the cognitive aspects of language .
18 The purpose of this charge is to ensure that land with planning permission for housing is developed promptly , and to penalise the speculative hoarding of such land .
19 The dearth of recent critical material in this area would suggest not , but the aim of this article is to demonstrate that the study of dramatic character may be effectively achieved by the application of theoretical principles derived from the linguistic analysis of conversation .
20 One purpose of this article is to show that Britain is different , and different in ways that are important politically as well as in law .
21 This group is demanding that delegates to the party congress next July be directly elected by rank-and-file members .
22 " This Meeting being informed that Cart Drivers are very inattentive as to their Conduct upon the road with Carts It is now recommended that all Travellers upon the road shall take to the Left in all situations , and that when a Traveller upon the road shall loose a shew of his horse , the Parochial Blacksmith shall be obliged to give preference to the Traveller . "
23 In the context of the conventional debate over academic freedom , a standard move in response to this point is to claim that academic freedom is a concept applicable to individual persons , and that academic autonomy is a concept applicable to institutions .
24 1.1 The overall goal of this investigation is to argue that there is a very great deal that can be said , that has not yet been said , about the semantic value of fundamental syntactic relations .
25 The only way round this conclusion is to suppose that instead of the chain of justification stretching away to infinity , it turns round on its tail and joins up with itself at some point , forming a circle .
26 Thus another indicator is needed that will correct for the major , rational influences on the number and cost of items prescribed and facilitate direct comparison of prescribing data .
27 The Royal Commission 's response to this criticism was to note that fusion might not improve matters and to suggest that a more detailed set of standards should be prepared for both solicitors and barristers on the preparation and handling of briefs .
28 I I do suggest that if you feel that some easing is required that er you could specifically refer to exceptions that will be set out er in local plans .
29 All she had done this morning was suggest that she bathe his wound again before they started out , and he had refused with a complete lack of gratitude or even common courtesy .
30 A way out of this double-bind is to conclude that ‘ I ’ am holding my eyes open but that ‘ they ’ have closed involuntarily .
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