Example sentences of "that [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that for long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We regret that for practical reasons we can not accept cheques less than 7 days prior to date of departure . |
| 4 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 5 | Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are . |
| 6 | Used as I am , of course , to drinking from glittering crystal , I admit that for everyday use it is more likely to be the ordinary glass you buy from Woolies or Habitat — sensible , cheap , and reasonably designed . |
| 7 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 8 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 9 | This is because those who are inside the system recognize that as potential sharers they are not equal . |
| 10 | The brief introduction to Piaget 's ideas in Chapter 2 , and our realization that as adult readers we can not read , say , an Ordnance Survey map , a machine drawing , or art forms from cultures not our own with anything like total understanding , should cause us to be cautious and questioning when presented with these assumptions . |
| 11 | The sacring of emperors , kings and bishops signified an acceptance that as Christian rulers they governed subject to eternal or divine laws . |
| 12 | After much of the previous evidence had been repeated , Professor Tidy , a police forensic expert , stated that after detailed examination he had found human blood on all three of the Tidburys ' clothing . |
| 13 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 14 | One of the first complaints was made by three members of CND who were told on 7 July 1986 by the Tribunal ‘ that after careful investigation it was satisfied no contravention of the [ statutory ] criteria had occurred ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 17 | Article 34 of the Vienna Convention applies to itself so that like other treaties it can not bind third parties . |
| 18 | When you come to analyse his splendid breakfasts you find that with slight changes he might almost be describing a nineteen-sixties , chop-house revival period , West End restaurant lunch . |
| 19 | Tradition says that with other Covenanters he was hanged from the upstairs window of the house that still stands at the north-west corner of Mauchline Cross . |
| 20 | And if anybody thinks that with reasonable budgeting you could manage on sixty three twenty , I challenge you to do a little personal budgeting . |
| 21 | 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' . |
| 22 | The ideas of morality are modes too , and Locke thinks that with proper application we could develop a systematic science of ethics similar to that of mathematics and geometry . |
| 23 | However , I think that with proper coordination it should not be hard to ensure effective working between the bodies . |
| 24 | Hamilton asserted that in ordinary life it was the strong arm of the law and not the strong arm of the husband which protected women from hurt or molestation . |
| 25 | Erm so I think we 've got ta look at that right across the board though , we 've got ta know that in actual fact we 're covering it temporarily , erm or are n't we covering it temporarily . |
| 26 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 27 | I actually asked prospective farmers what they thought about certain issues , because I think the Leicestershire county council er and our department are probably some of the best farmers landlords there are in the country and I think our tenant farmers know that in actual fact I asked the question to several of the members er er the potential er clients erm , what do you think about foxes . |
| 28 | Social workers must recognise , therefore , that in racist societies they are working with a potentially vulnerable group . |
| 29 | This comparative static result suggests that in empirical work we would expect to observe a positive correlation between alternative wages or unemployment benefits , and union wages and membership , but also possibly a sharp discontinuity in this relationship . |
| 30 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |