Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] that " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ?
2 Erm , and you know , let's face it , I did n't have to go through the circumstances that they went through in the war , and there therefore , who who am I to judge
3 Okay , what I 'd like to do now is to go through the pads that you 've been given .
4 The Department needs to know about the incidents that staff experience as they do their work , in order to plan to make working conditions safer , and to train staff in the best ways of dealing with violence if they meet it .
5 Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move .
6 Does he agree that it would be an act of the most amazing folly to tamper with the provisions that currently apply , and yet that is exactly what the Opposition are committed to doing if they win the general election ?
7 That gives America opportunities to work with the Soviets that it did not have in the past .
8 What we do at the end of the year we have n't quite worked out , but we are very much committed to sharing child care and professional space if you like , but we are very privileged in that academic work allows one the flexibility to work in the hours that you find convenient and so on and allows you the flexibility to make this kind of family arrangement .
9 In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 .
10 Are we to infer from the texts that the pupils do not understand the differences between inborn and conditioned reflexes ?
11 Rolls-Royce were swift to establish in the courts that their purchase of the trademark Bentley overrode their contract with him , which had banned his own use of his name for ten years only .
12 We wanted all pupils to be able to benefit from the opportunities that the new media and technologies offer , and we framed our proposals accordingly .
13 ‘ It 's old folks and neighbours that have gone into the houses , and it will be children who will benefit in years to come from the jobs that are created .
14 It is therefore normal to provide in the Articles that the consent of the equity investor or its director will be required before the payment of any dividends .
15 It is not uncommon to provide in the Articles that if a transfer of a " controlling interest " is in contemplation , the proposed transferee should be obliged to extend to all other shareholders an offer to purchase their shares on like terms .
16 In principle there was no distinction between indirect interference at the first stage and such interference at a remoter stage , but the more indirect and remote the interference , the more difficult it may be to establish on the facts that A did intend to interfere with the particular contract relied on by the plaintiff and that that interference was a necessary consequence of A 's wrongful act .
17 So what we 've got to do is try and filter out that so that the incidents go straight through to the incident rooms , rather than being queued behind everybody who just wants to speak to the caretaker , to talk about the hinges that 's just normally .
18 Ward watched him , without any expression on his face , as he rode out through the arch , turned right and was lost to view behind the outbuildings that formed a part of the square courtyard .
19 They wanted opportunities to participate in the decisions that were going to affect their country 's future .
20 In the case of the RUC it is essential to reflect on the problems that arose in the research .
21 I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community .
22 The British reader has only to listen to the sounds that protest makes in his own streets , to the cruel , brutal voices that bellow over loudhailers about injustice and the disadvantaged .
23 So I suspect that you wo n't be talking to these kinds of men , or do you get a chance to talk to the men that you perceive are part of the problem .
24 Lithuania 's President Vytautas Landsbergis attended for the first time on June 12 a meeting of the USSR Council of the Federation , comprising the Presidents of the 15 union republics ( previously he had refused to participate on the grounds that he was the head of a foreign state ) .
25 It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction .
26 So parents tend not to hear about the things that really go on a lot of the time in nearly all schools and they do hear a bit about the things that are a little bit different , so they can get quite a distorted picture of , of what 's going on .
27 One successful way of going about it is to invite parents into school one class at a time to hear of the plans that the school has made .
28 Unlike SSAPs , SORPs are not mandatory but companies are encouraged to comply with the recommendations that they make .
29 There was the contact with friendly adults , but not so close as to suggest to the children that their real parents were being supplanted — a common resentment in foster homes .
30 It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again .
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