Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So either we shall have to disallow such a possibility and decree that nothing qualifies as a genuine proposition unless its truth-value is fixed for all time , i.e. that all propositions are what is sometimes called " eternal " propositions , or we shall have to accept that truth-value is not an integral part of the objective propositional content . |
| 2 | One familiar view is that nothing qualifies as a genuine proper name unless it singles out its object in an unambiguous fashion , and that this task can be accomplished only by a logically simple symbol . |
| 3 | Just be prepared for Connemara enthusiasts to tell you that theirs is the only breed worth bothering about , Welsh Cob experts too insist that nothing compares with a good Section D and Highland/Fell/Dales etc exhibitors feel exactly the same ! |
| 4 | Hopkins went on to say that nobody buys from a clown . |
| 5 | This is her second book , slimmer but by no means slighter ; complex computer stuff that she turns into a fun thriller . |
| 6 | Liz and her family love colour , although she admits that she gets into a rut buying navy and black ‘ because it goes with everything ’ . |
| 7 | Lisa B says again and again that she knows as a model going into music she has to prove herself . |
| 8 | Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world . |
| 9 | ‘ Not only can we match any skin , from lightest to darkest , ’ he says , ‘ but we can give any woman the exact combination of texture , weight and coverage that she wants in a foundation or powder . |
| 10 | No one could have been more attentive than Mrs Gaskell to that interior ; one feels that she writes with a precise remembered image in her mind . |
| 11 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 12 | By then the market place accommodated seven annual fairs ( three for horses and four for cattle , cheese , cloth and leather ) in addition to the weekly Saturday market , and all about the central area the full variety of shops , inns , businesses and workshops that one associates with a market town were to be found . |
| 13 | The questions that one asks in a survey must be derived from the object of the research itself : the schedule is only a tool for obtaining information . |
| 14 | In the end it is only trial and error that one settles on a suitable selection . |
| 15 | The first point to make is that because all the possible histories for the universe are finite in extent , any quantity that one uses as a measure of time will have a greatest and a least value . |
| 16 | This is certainly not the language that one uses of a resident sage or recognized ‘ master ’ ; and it seems that in Paris at that time there was in fact no one who esteemed Pound in either of those ways . |
| 17 | I have never suggested to the media that anybody goes on a programme , unless I know that it will be good radio or good television . |
| 18 | This is so unexpected when it is encountered for the first time that it feels like a deliberate deception . |
| 19 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |
| 20 | ‘ The more effects you use the more you lose the original signal of the guitar and I like the fact that it sounds like a guitar and it sounds really twangy . |
| 21 | Although both males call , they do so in such close unison that it sounds like a single call . |
| 22 | The difference found in these is difficult to explain away and I shall accept the conclusion that it derives from a change in the distinctiveness of the pre-trained cues . |
| 23 | This programme , titled Repelita , has been discussed by Ross ( 1986 ) who indicates that it operates via a series of 5-year plans . |
| 24 | Although such characteristics probably do play some secondary role , we find this interpretation unconvincing and suspect that it stems from a need to make a connection with what are perceived as the relatively more ‘ attractive ’ features of psychosis , rather than with those emphasised in descriptions of schizophrenia , a concept that has taken on almost entirely negative connotations . |
| 25 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 26 | The value of Black 's theory lies in the fact that it allows for a conception of metaphor as the interaction between two discourses , but like Goodman 's concept of imperial appropriation , it has overtones of subjugation . |
| 27 | We need not a tinkering with security policy — a change here and a change there — but a root-and-branch change in security policy so that it changes from a reactive one to a proactive one and becomes a policy of going after the IRA , of taking the fight to the IRA . |
| 28 | Some ministers perhaps keep it on because they feel that it caters for a section of the adult church with whom they are unwilling to compromise in the sermon . |
| 29 | This is no accident ; it seems likely that it results from a deliberate policy decision taken somewhere on high . |
| 30 | Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it . |