Example sentences of "that [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , a point to bear in mind is that for many users of weekly collection credit it is not just one transaction ( with a relatively small money cost , in spite of its high APR ) but is instead virtually continuous indebtedness , with one transaction following closely on the heels of another . |
| 2 | The dominance of the corporate publishing sector is such that for many writers the most available social relations are those of employment in this sense , with the ideas for books coming from new professional intermediaries ( publishers ' editors ) within the market structure , and authors being employed to execute them . |
| 3 | This influential paper proceeded from an explanation that for many processes above the level of competence , the rate of movement of material can be expressed as a power function of some stress , to demonstrate that the largest portion of sediment transported by rivers is carried by flows which occur on average once or twice each year , and that transport of sand and dust by wind follows the same laws . |
| 4 | Continuing reliance might be placed upon the " civilizing influence of literature but teachers were also aware that for many students a degree in English was simply a necessary preliminary to a career in business , commerce , the civil service , teaching broadcasting , or journalism . |
| 5 | Behind this instability lies the simple fact that for many commodities such as coffee and ground-nuts , demand in the industrialized world with its stable population has probably reached saturation point . |
| 6 | Professor Flinn found no very wide gulf between wage and price increases and concluded that " contrary to the very commonly made generalisation that rapidly rising prices tended to erode real wages … it seems that for many groups of workers … wage rates in general broadly kept pace with rising prices " . |
| 7 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 8 | Consideration of the effects of stress in the workplace has meant that for many employers the workaholic has become bad news . |
| 9 | In innumerable works one finds that for many movements the last bar of one movement changes to the time signature of the following movement . |
| 10 | There can be no doubt that for many women fear of loss is built into us by the way we 've been reared . |
| 11 | Mr Foley identified uncertainty as the greatest obstacle to company expansion , noting that for many firms continued rationalisation may be the best policy . |
| 12 | But given the dumb actors portrayed , there seems to be a clear need to draw distinctions between , at one extreme , the cat and the chicken and , at the other , the sea anemone and the mud-dauber ; despite the fact that for many readers , ethologists included , the wasp 's habits will be the most intriguing of all . |
| 13 | The problem is that for many centuries there were a number of variant systems in which the year of grace began at different times — 1 January , Christmas Day , the Annunciation , Easter Day , and 1 , 24 and 29 September . |
| 14 | Goody 's examination of historical records , for instance , suggests that for many centuries very few ‘ texts ’ were produced , the vast bulk of writing being concerned with lists , tables , charters , headings , business records etc . |
| 15 | Of course , there are unions and parties within Japan which cut across enterprise identification , but the point made by Hirschmeier and Yui is that for many workers , for much of the time , the enterprise is a more strongly pertinent collectivity . |
| 16 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 17 | It is equally true to say that for many applications open-loop control is entirely adequate , and to opt for a closed-loop system would be an expensive luxury . |
| 18 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 19 | The early response has not been enthusiastic , though aides insisted yesterday that for many households the new tax bills would amount to only a few dollars a month . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | According to Mosley , the interruptions showed the necessity for the fascists to have a defence force and demonstrated that for many years past there had been no freedom of speech in the country . |
| 22 | Family , friends and grandchildren must take the place of the employing organizations that for many years conferred identity , values and status . |
| 23 | There is also general recognition that for many years prisons have failed to meet these objectives . |
| 24 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 25 | It is by no means an exaggeration to say that for many years worked conscientiously behind the scenes in the shadow of five successive transport managers who relied heavily on her efficient and accurate administration skills . |
| 26 | Welcoming the company 's plans , DBRW chairman Glyn Davies said that for many years the Development Board had sought to help the company to re-locate and expand while staying in Llanfyllin . |
| 27 | We argued that for such students practice in the craft of writing would not only be valuable for its own sake but would help them appreciate the achievements of writers of the past and take an informed interest in contemporary writing : |
| 28 | And this means that for such sentences meaning is determinate and translation is determinate ; we can hope to find a sentence in another language with exactly matching assent conditions . |
| 29 | She pointed out that the programmes of study , which have statutory force , now say that for all stages reading materials should ‘ include works written in English from other cultures ’ . |
| 30 | I feel it is our duty to try to get — I will not say on our side but to work with us — the section of Labour which is national and imperialistic ( Applause ) We have got to get on our side if we can , the section of Labour which recognises that for all classes , employers and employed , production is the one thing to be aimed at ( Applause ) , and that anything which is detrimental to that is detrimental to anybody . |