Example sentences of "and that [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 2 | It is ICI 's policy to manage all of its activities so as to give benefit to society , ensuring that they meet relevant laws and regulations ; that they are acceptable to the community at large ; and that their environmental impact is reduced to a practicable minimum . |
| 3 | The Sandinistas point out that many thousands of rebels are already back inside the country , and that their alleged attacks necessitated the ending of the ceasefire . |
| 4 | The records of female social workers trained in early twentieth-century Birmingham , however , showed that only 22 per cent of educated women had married and that their average age at marriage was 34 years , some nine years older than the norm . |
| 5 | It is frequently assumed that large corporations act in roughly the same manner , whether they are part of the public or the private sector , and that their industrial relations follow the same pattern , too . |
| 6 | Dr Lewis , however , has assumed that these walls belong to the external portico ( his Table 1 ) and that their great size was necessary to support the solid podium . |
| 7 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 8 | Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges . |
| 9 | It is worth bearing in mind , though , that his three oceans are in fact all part of one , and that their individual behaviours are all part of the overall behaviour of the planet 's hydrosphere , where all winds and currents , ambient temperatures and barometric pressures — and , just possibly , all human behaviour too — are part of one hugely complicated , ever-mobile , mathematically-insufferable and only marginally predictable global machine . |
| 10 | What they have not yet recognised is that , if that is normality , if those are the institutions the system requires and that their normal behaviour , then the system is wrong and another is needed , a new economic model which will mark an advance from the sterile confrontation between Capitalism and Socialism , thesis and antithesis , to the synthesis providing a long overdue advance in democratic practice and a means of treating the chronic and disabling debility of the national economy . |
| 11 | Weighing it all up , Ramsay came to the conclusion that the chances of capturing the usurper at this stage were all but non-existent , and that their wisest course was to return at once with his dire news to the main Scots array in Annandale or wherever it had reached by now . |
| 12 | It 's not good enough to say that by becoming international stars they are compensated by the kudos this brings with it and that their personal fame enables them to cash in . |
| 13 | Keeping complexity within prescribed limits ensures that the purpose and function of IT systems can be perceived by clients and users ( which eliminates frustration and alienation ) and that their internal structure is perceivable to those involved with their design , production and maintenance ( which , for example , increases reliability and modifiability ) . |
| 14 | The final communiqué said that OECD member countries would " take urgent steps to reform agricultural policy " and that their long-term objective was to allow " market signals to influence the orientation of agricultural production and to establish a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system " . |
| 15 | They decided that the undercover plotters would be most afraid of publicity and political pressure and that their best hope would be to find an influential member of parliament who would believe their story . |
| 16 | Apart from the irrelevant actor there , it seems worth observing that the sonnets are not in fact dialogues , but either monologues or poems of direct address , and that their dramatic quality is due to a sustained effort of imagination rather than the conditioning of a career . |
| 17 | Prime Minister John Major announced to the House of Commons on Dec. 9 that the Prince and Princess of Wales , who married in 1981 [ see p. 31116 ] , were to separate but that they had no plans to divorce and that their constitutional positions were unaffected , adding : " There is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned queen in due course . " |
| 18 | ‘ While it is understandable that the media will home in on failures , it is important that the public should be reassured that such cases are very much the exception , rather than the rule , and that their continuing confidence in the profession is justified . ’ |
| 19 | Sir : Tony Colston-Hayter of World Wide Productions ( letter , October 11 ) , in defending ‘ dance music warehouse parties ’ and welcoming the licensing of such parties , suggests that ‘ so-called ‘ acid parties ’ ' are a ‘ sensationalist fantasy of the gutter press ’ , and that their massive popularity is ‘ partly due to the fact that we offer all-night dancing ’ . |
| 20 | Particularly in dealing with civil service officials or elected political leaders there are obvious objections to assuming that their class origins and educational backgrounds decisively shape their political attitudes , and that their social origins and political attitudes jointly determine their policy-making behaviour ( Meier , 1975 ) . |
| 21 | He had asked the hotel for some black coffee before they set off and the management , knowing he was a doctor and that their sudden departure had something to do with his wife 's health , had been accommodating . |
| 22 | 5 The Parties to this Agreement represent to each other that they have approved the terms and conditions of this Agreement and that their respective signatories are duly authorized to bind the respective parties in such terms and conditions . |
| 23 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 24 | Clive felt that this was very low and , although he himself did not feel undue deprivation , that it was a straw in the wind and that their sexual relationship was ominously on the wane . |
| 25 | In the forthright style that has helped to earn him his reputation , he said that politicians are sick people , that they have a profound characters fault , and that their main objective is to keep their jobs ( does the later at least not also apply to economists , one might wonder ? ) . |
| 26 | He also urged that hospital wards be vacated and thoroughly cleansed every four months , that iron beds be used , that patients be washed on admission and dressed in clean clothes and that their own clothing be cleaned before discharge , that infectious patients be denied admission , that patients with offensive sores and surgical patients be placed in separate rooms , that hospitals remain uncrowded , that the windows of each ward be opened daily , and that infirmaries remove patients to country houses for recovery . |
| 27 | They believed in the career open to enterprise and talent , and that their own lives proved its merits . |
| 28 | ‘ The Labour Party must produce policies which convince voters that their own prosperity depends on a government which takes active responsibility to promote a strong economy and that their own security — and that of their families — is best advanced by a government which works for the welfare of the whole community . ’ |
| 29 | Experience with an earlier version of comprehensive 16+ examination north of the border where the cutting edge of educational policy has already elevated modular accreditation into a major component of post-16 certification ( SED , 1983 ) suggests that the GCSE , like the Scottish Standard Grade , may already be obsolete , and that they hybrid offspring of the conjoining of the norm and criterion referencing pedigree that the search for subject and grade criteria represents will satisfy no one ( Munro , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | Fairlie argues , in the same fashion as that employed above , that Britain has an executive-dominated legislature , that the House of Commons can do little to stop a government and that its traditional functions are largely meaningless . |