Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason AEI won the award was explained by Jim White , director general of BIFA : ‘ The fact that AEI managed to accredit all of its 33 branches in the UK with BS5750 in one operation is a fantastic achievement . ’ |
| 2 | While conceding that ‘ thirty years of study and the writing of one million words must have left their mark on Newton 's mind ’ , Hall is inclined , on the whole , to reaffirm his verdict , published in a joint paper in 1958 , that Newton attempted to retrieve useful chemical facts from the enigmatic and mysterious terms employed by alchemists to conceal them . |
| 3 | It is on the basis of these distinctions that Hayek seeks to avoid certain criticisms that have been applied to Oakeshott . |
| 4 | Her mother had tried to force feed her in the past as her doctor had said that Maria had to gain some weight but Maria had only cried and refused to swallow the solid food . |
| 5 | The Jerusalem that Richard tried to capture 700 years ago is proof of that . |
| 6 | It was during the tea break that Meredith began to feel agitated again . |
| 7 | With a grunt Toby agreed to arrange things and hoped that I would do the driving and that Jefferson intended to provide some decent champagne . |
| 8 | He had outlined to him a ‘ Project for a Scientific Psychology ’ in 1895 , and it was at about this time that Freud began to become dissatisfied with Breuer 's approach . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you implying , ’ cried her incensed brother , ‘ that Kathleen pretends to have these dreadful attacks ? ’ |
| 10 | The hearing revealed that Raybestos proposed to dump 400 lbs . |
| 11 | By the early 1930s it was clear that Abdallah intended to develop friendly co-operation with the Jewish Agency . |
| 12 | The fact that Thucydides wanted to do this , or said he did , does not of course provide evidence of whether he actually did . |
| 13 | ‘ The reason for the sharp rise in the price is that Warburgs wants to buy 5,000 shares and nobody wants to sell . ’ |
| 14 | Given the extreme economic crisis , the end of which is not yet in sight , it is left-wing socialist parties in particular which may become very strong in the future , on condition , of course , that Russia continues to respect democratic freedoms and the rights of the individual . |
| 15 | The Chinese charge that Mosher tried to smuggle antique coins out of the country , violated travel regulations , brought a female secretary from Hong Kong to China without permission and used photographs of abortions to mount a political attack on China . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ said Dierdriu , but now she spoke so softly that Fergus had to move closer to hear her . |
| 17 | Whilst there , he stated publicly that Cuba wanted to maintain good relations and to remain in the OAS . |
| 18 | Conversely it argues that Afro-Caribbeans tend to have weaker links with primary care , come to treatment later , are admitted more often via the statutory authorities , and have less effective family networks to return to . |
| 19 | Similarly , he assured the American ambassador , Carlton Hayes , that Spain wished to remain neutral , while allowing German submarine detector stations to be built on the south coast . |
| 20 | During the course of meetings with Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other officials , Kravchuk said that Ukraine intended to become nuclear-free by 1994 , and confirmed that Ukraine 's armed forces would have a maximum strength of 220,000 . |
| 21 | She says that Helen had to take 99 exams to qualify as an astronaut . |
| 22 | Mehmed II is reported to have been hurt by the fact that Hocazade appeared to prefer high rank to his company . |
| 23 | It is surprising that BRAC failed to foresee these problems . |
| 24 | The EPLF , however , continued to claim that Israel was a major arms supplier , notably of cluster bombs , Kfir aircraft and Soviet-made tanks , and that Israel sought to develop military base facilities . |
| 25 | ‘ The problem is that Israel wants to choose both teams on the football field , ’ a diplomat said . |
| 26 | Another way of putting it is to say that RE has to offer feasible road-maps enabling pupils to chart their own way around the difficult country of religion with its complexity and ambiguity . |
| 27 | We often read statements or suggestions that writer X " favours " , " is fond of " , " tends to use language feature Y : for example , that Hemingway tends to use short sentences , or that Johnson favours abstract vocabulary . |
| 28 | It was in Calcutta last January on a pitch a blind man could tell was going to allow the spinners to turn the ball square , that Gooch decided to play four seamers . |
| 29 | An extreme conservative position would be to believe that , through the fact that God chose to become incarnate within a particular society , indeed through the fact that God chose a particular tradition and people , all aspects of that society are to be conceived to accord with the will of God . |
| 30 | Our God is a communicator ; we see that in a supreme way in His gift of Jesus — but in this passage it is clear that God wanted to make sure that everyone in the land could understand the seriousness of the problem . |