Example sentences of "that [adv] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most studies which have attempted to establish laws about reaction time have assumed that stages ( a ) and ( c ) are relatively short and consider that effectively all the time is taken up by central processes . |
| 2 | The statutory criteria ( in section 1 ) state that a custodial sentence must not be passed unless either ( a ) the current offence is ‘ so serious that only such a sentence can be justified for the offence ’ or ( b ) , in the case of violent or sexual offences only , only a custodial sentence ‘ would be adequate to protect the public from serious harm ’ . |
| 3 | Assad had urged recognition that " the only beneficiary of the present crisis is Israel " , promising that Syrian forces would fight alongside Iraqis if they were attacked after a withdrawal from Kuwait , and arguing that only such a withdrawal would avoid giving the " enemies of our Arab nation … the golden opportunity which they were dreaming of one day having , and which today is present " . |
| 4 | Introducing the budget yesterday , Finance Minister Mr Laszlo Bekesi said that only such a regime could prevent economic collapse . ‘ |
| 5 | There were fears that extension work to the Jubilee Line would mean that only half the area would be available this year . |
| 6 | I had hoped that somehow such a thing would happen . |
| 7 | Although Mr Crozier admitted his department was still gearing up to implement the legislation , he confirmed that once all the stall were fully trained they would begin prosecuting offenders . |
| 8 | For example , one might observe the fact that nearly all the world 's languages have the three basic sentence-types : imperative , interrogative and declarative ( Sadock & Zwicky , in press ) . |
| 9 | Most , but not all , of the islanders retreated to the mainland , returning five months later to discover that their island had grown by over a square mile and that nearly half the town had been destroyed . |
| 10 | MORALE in Britain is so low that nearly half the population would emigrate if they could , according to a survey . |
| 11 | ‘ It is true that practically all the world 's 500–600 active volcanoes — someone may have bothered to count them , I have n't — are located along convergent plate boundaries . |
| 12 | So it was that about half an hour later the telephone rang again at the vicarage . |
| 13 | Right , now you you 've already made it clear to us that about half the increase in development costs are due to increases in the costs of the equipment . |
| 14 | Only 22 managed to meet this date , but by 1955 a good submission record meant that about half the country 's plans had been approved , and the bulk by the end of the decade . |
| 15 | Even now the World Health Organisation estimates that 107 countries are affected and that about half the world 's population is exposed to the risk of infection . |
| 16 | Bolshevik sources reveal that about half the population of the guberniia did not have enough to eat by then , and the position was no better by spring of 1922 . |
| 17 | If it were due to some ‘ memory ’ of our life-style then we would predict that about half the population would show a value less than 24 hours and the free-running periods of individuals would be distributed fairly symmetrically about an average value of 24 hours . |
| 18 | It seems fairly obvious that often such a decision will not be possible either because no clear decision procedures are available , or because of certain fundamental difficulties involved in applying such procedures . |
| 19 | Group energy buyer Neil Tribick explains that around half the volume is consumed by plants requiring more than 1MW , with the rest in the 100KW to 900KW category . |
| 20 | The evidence suggests that almost all the village houses in earlier days were built of dried mud with thatched roofs . |
| 21 | The main point of this section , however , is that almost all the life on Earth that we are aware of derives its energy from the Sun , via the process of photosynthesis . |
| 22 | One of the main practical impacts of the TransAction system is that almost all the conveyancing is now dealt with before exchange of contracts , and this means that the tasks that have to be undertaken in between exchange and completion are relatively minor , thereby reducing the average time between exchange and completion to two weeks or even less . |
| 23 | The in-head sound from headphones is easily explained by the fact that almost all the programme material recorded or broadcast is designed for two-loud-speaker reproduction in which both ears receive the sounds from both loudspeakers . |
| 24 | Well over a hundred of Oxfordshire 's lowest paid and angriest health workers attended a mass meeting to hear that almost all the region 's clerical staff had voted for a one day strike . |
| 25 | On this basis alone the islands have clearly exceeded their carrying capacity , the more so when it is realised that almost all the food imports are in the form of foreign aid . |
| 26 | A number of gentlemen raised their hands uncertainly and a gasp of surprise went up from the assembly as it became evident that almost all the food had been bought on Rayne 's behalf . |
| 27 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 28 | No industrial society ought to accept that almost half the population can , in effect , be disenfranchised from Technology at such an early age . |
| 29 | Mr. Walker : I think that he should explain that virtually all the money for that project was to be public expenditure . |
| 30 | The Treasury was still unable to pay and supply the army adequately — despite the fact that over half the budget was devoted to military expenditure even in peacetime . |