Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 2 | In the case of a small pay cut , for example , we have seen that it is sometimes safer to sue for the amount that you have lost , rather than give up your job . |
| 3 | Carmen , 22 , a part-time waitress , added : ‘ I 'm relieved we did n't have to go through the anguish that these other parents must be enduring . |
| 4 | It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned . |
| 5 | I want to write about the nightmare that we all have to confront every morning when we awake . |
| 6 | But Forbes was unable to shake off the belief that new species were produced by the exertion of a supernatural agent — he proposed a strange theory of ‘ polarity ’ in which the creative power was supposed to have been exerted most strongly at the beginning and at the end of the history of life on earth . |
| 7 | The procedure was designed to compensate for the fact that the electoral register is not a very complete list of individuals ; it therefore depended on whether the adults resident had changed since the register was compiled . |
| 8 | This is a real gift to the declining Italian tourist industry , which needs the country 's cultural assets to be made more accessible if it is to compensate for the fact that mass tourism has migrated to cheaper , less developed shores . |
| 9 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 10 | In those circumstances it does not seem to me right to leave open , whether the court has power to do so I 'm doubtful , but in any event it does not seem to me right to leave open a question of whether there should be some damages to provide for the possibility that er Paul may have to leave school , nor do I think that it is a situation in which any contingency award should be made in respect of that . |
| 11 | Second , there is the failure to provide for the fact that disabled older people require higher incomes than non-disabled people . |
| 12 | It is enough to know for the moment that you are going … |
| 13 | Programmers do not need to worry about the fact that their applications may be running in parallel , Hinsley says , they merely need to think about the appropriate size of object and Taos will do the rest . |
| 14 | Programmers do not need to worry about the fact that their applications may be running in parallel , Hinsley says , they merely need to think about the appropriate size of object and Taos will do the rest . |
| 15 | By restoring your existing windows , you wo n't have to worry about the effect that changing your window style will have on the look of your house . |
| 16 | It may be , then , that there is a distinction between the two cases and that , notwithstanding the later doubts expressed in Hills v. Ellis , Willmott v. Atack should be taken to stand for the proposition that a person who interferes with the police intending to help them is not guilty of a wilful obstruction . |
| 17 | It was Metzinger who , in his Note sur la Peinture of 1910 , was the first to write of the fact that Picasso and Braque had dismissed traditional perspective and felt free to move around their subjects , studying them from various points of view . |
| 18 | You might put it this way : We are human beings , not because we have souls but because we are able to conceive of the possibility that we might have souls . |
| 19 | It was useful to know of the expectation that Business and Communication check local papers regarding any adverts relating to the Centre . |
| 20 | A similar ramp will lead down from this embankment , to pass beneath the bridge that will carry the new road over the East Coast Main Line railway . |
| 21 | Fei Yen stood in the shade of the willow , waiting for the two princes to come along the path that led to the bridge . |
| 22 | It is easy for us to slip into the assumption that the institutional , professional and curricular structures with which we are familiar are somehow natural or inevitable . |
| 23 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 24 | Worse was to come with the news that the gentleman had brought no valet , his usual man having fallen ill . |
| 25 | I am pleased to be able to write with the news that Wimpey Homes ’ Luton and Southampton offices are joint winners of Wimpey 's Lewis Cup for safety . |
| 26 | Even the fact that disappointed old toss-pots — unable to grapple with the idea that people once enjoyed themselves without getting drunk , vomiting and hitting one another — still react to the Sixties , as a notion , with comical indignation has never convinced me that there was anything special about that time . |
| 27 | It is difficult for her and others to grapple with the fact that , although they often oppose racism on behalf of Asian communities , they find themselves unable to control and dictate the forms that anti-racism takes . |
| 28 | McMurdo would like to persist with the illusion that everything he touches turns to gold , but several Scottish professionals think otherwise . |
| 29 | The employers did however wish to keep the door open for the future , and proposed a ban of five years on women entrants — something which the union was prepared to accept in the hope that " natural reductions " over this period would leave the men in a commanding position . |
| 30 | Why do we persist in trying to know everything there is to know in the belief that one day , presumably quite soon , we will succeed ? |