Example sentences of "[to-vb] with the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse was to come with the news that the gentleman had brought no valet , his usual man having fallen ill . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | McMurdo would like to persist with the illusion that everything he touches turns to gold , but several Scottish professionals think otherwise . |
| 7 | That gives America opportunities to work with the Soviets that it did not have in the past . |
| 8 | While grudgingly accepting Mr Rosen 's line that there were some good teachers who did teach properly , he was quick to counter with the challenge that ‘ we could n't be sure that it was happening elsewhere ’ . |
| 9 | But people tend to confuse the fact that one may be able to guess what an individual is likely to choose with the notion that the choice is not free . |
| 10 | TEENAGE substitute Craig O'Donnell had a day to remember with the try that humbled the champions and brought Hull only their third post-war win at Central Park . |
| 11 | The major brewers do not have to evict tenants to comply with the requirement that they release pubs from ties by 1 November 1992 . |
| 12 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |
| 13 | Unlike SSAPs , SORPs are not mandatory but companies are encouraged to comply with the recommendations that they make . |
| 14 | In the absence of coelacanths , it was still possible to toy with the idea that species and genera had their life-spans as individuals do , even though some ‘ living fossils ’ among plants should have made this more difficult than it was . |
| 15 | Was it the ultimate in malice — to make sure that Toby , when he came to , in appalling pain , would have to contend with the idea that he would eventually die alone in the darkness ? |
| 16 | But they then had to contend with the response that faith itself might be interpreted as an ‘ inner work ’ , a good deed of the mind . |
| 17 | It is a continuous process that those blacks like myself , who have moved up ( in a manner of speaking ) in society , have very often to contend with the labels that not only do we carry ‘ chips on our shoulders ’ , but we are over-sensitive to racial issues … . |
| 18 | The area of special needs in further education/training has had to contend with the fact that it is but a very small part of a very much larger whole , and that the FE college and the training schemes are subject to the vagaries and constraints of the external environment . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , like the rest of Europe 's professional golfers , he is pondering how to contend with the examination that Ballesteros , the architect , has set his contemporaries . |
| 20 | I would er agree actually with what I think Mr was a saying on balance , that 's it 's best to go with the bit that you 've got rather than hold that up to , to er to come back to Road later . |
| 21 | Also in the 1900s the infant mortality rate began to fall with the result that some poorer families faced the cost of raising more children until they were old enough to work . |
| 22 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 23 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 24 | Mr. Gilberd instructed the defendant to confirm with the bank that the cheque was acceptable , and the defendant later told him that he had done so and that such a cheque was ‘ as good as cash . ’ |
| 25 | Why was such a dangerous practice allowed to continue with the chance that the offender might never have been caught ? |
| 26 | The ships that had survived were divided , some to continue with the trade that was their life-blood ; the rest thinly spread through the Sudreyar , including Man , where Bishop Hrolf cultivated his souls and his fortifications with equal exuberance and had received from his smith on Holmepatrick , in his scant leisure from illegal coining , a custom-made tunic of chain-mail with the cross of Christ on every ring of it . |
| 27 | ‘ Gottle a geer ’ Gazza would undoubtedly be a tremendous asset to the team , but after Silvers recent professions of poverty , I tend to agree with the Guardian that this is a ‘ We are still a big club ’ smokescreen . |
| 28 | Denis Healey is another politician I admire , and I tend to agree with the view that he is the best leader the Labour Party never had . |
| 29 | Moral philosophers who hold this sort of view are wont to agree with the attitudinist that moral judgements , or value judgements on which they are based , express emotional attitudes , but will insist that these can be correct or incorrect in quite as objective a way as that in which judgements can be true or false . |
| 30 | You 've got a form R eighty five which is available for bank and building society investors , and if you 've got er a gross account then er you , you have to agree with the revenue that you are not going to be a taxpayer in the year that you take out the er R eighty five . |