Example sentences of "that [prep] [adj] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 2 | I should perhaps explain that for many years it had been a regulation in UK registered public transport aircraft that when flying below 15 000 feet hand operated microphones were prohibited . |
| 3 | The procedure is often of great value , but it 's suggested that for two reasons it should only be used in urgent cases — both out of consideration for Land Registry staff , and to avoid the possibility of their being swamped by too many such applications , resulting in delay , which would defeat the whole purpose of the operation . |
| 4 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 5 | The following month , after an appeal by Iranian opposition leader Rajavi , Iraq announced that for seven days it would halt attacks on towns . |
| 6 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |
| 7 | Labour 's simple , single theme is that after 13 years it is time for a change . |
| 8 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 9 | Patrick knew enough about improvised timing devices to be sure that after fifty-five seconds it would complete an electric circuit and fire the mortar bomb . |
| 10 | The KNU president Gen. Bo Mya , in a letter to Saw Maung dated Nov. 30 , 1989 , said that after 40 years it had been " proven beyond doubt that the civil war , which is basically a political problem , can not be settled by military means " , and that " the most correct and suitable means of achieving [ the KNU 's ] political goals is the settlement of the civil war politically , in a just and rational manner " . |
| 11 | This research has been expounded at some length here to demonstrate that despite some limitations it is informed by a relatively subtle and complex analysis . |
| 12 | Article 34 of the Vienna Convention applies to itself so that like other treaties it can not bind third parties . |
| 13 | But this would itself be merely an instance of the general fact that with most sentences it is possible for two people to understand them but disagree about their truth . |
| 14 | The report comments that with vigorous efforts it may be possible to raise this proportion this decade to say 20 per cent , but even this is not certain' . |
| 15 | All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues . |
| 16 | Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia . |
| 17 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |
| 18 | It seems clear that the Crown had greater powers of nomination in the more newly established institutions , that within all departments it was more likely to nominate to the most recently created offices , and that it was trying , with some measure of success , to extend its powers . |
| 19 | IBM Corp shares saluted the imminent departure of John Akers with a jump of $3.25 at $52.125 at the opening the day after the company accompanied news that it was cutting its quarterly dividend only 55% with the announcement that within 90 days it would have a new chief executive . |
| 20 | We normally suppose that our experience is a reliable guide to the nature of those parts of the world which we are not observing , and that in favourable cases it gives us knowledge . |
| 21 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 22 | Indeed , the Married Man 's Tax Allowance has recently been re-confirmed despite strong criticism of it ( for example , Equal Opportunities Commission , 1982b ) : in the March 1984 budget the allowance went up so that in real terms it is now higher than at any time since the war ( Financial Times , 14 March 1984 ) . |
| 23 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 24 | While it is true that in recent decades it has been made more , rather than less , difficult for elected assemblies to exercise control over public expenditure ( Robinson 1978 ) , it is equally true that political controllers are not completely starved of information about bureaucratic activities . |
| 25 | And that by now familiar music to many of you means that in five minutes it will be the Dougie Down Under competition thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 26 | The truth is that in European affairs it would be difficult to diminish further the power of this Parliament . |
| 27 | This means that in individual families it must have been rather unusual to have grandparents surviving much beyond the infancy of their grandchildren , and thus relationships across three generations would have been comparatively rare . |
| 28 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 29 | To the extent that the purchaser is willing to accept this reduction of the absolute nature of warranties , it should be on the basis the vendor acknowledges that in all circumstances it has made full and proper enquiries and investigations ( see clause 13.6 of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) ; ( i ) to provide that the vendor shall not be liable if the purchaser completed the sale at the full purchase price despite the fact that it had knowledge of a particular breach of warranty . |
| 30 | A stronger version of the argument , not developed by Leontief himself but based on his theoretical foundations , is that the high level of productivity of capital may mean that in many instances it will be cheaper to use machines rather than people to perform jobs unless the wage rate is well below subsistence level . |