Example sentences of "that [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The origin of the phenomenon is to be found in the fact that associated states which lie in deep electrostatic wells have relatively little motion compared to the dissociated states in which the eectrostatic interactions are removed .
2 This means that multinational accounts which are audited in compliance with the standards will be acceptable to securities regulatory authorities around the world .
3 On Nov. 13 , 1990 , the government announced that 7,000 Romanians whose asylum applications had been turned down and who had neither shelter nor work would be returned to Romania ( while another 3,000 had found work and would be allowed to remain ) .
4 TED 'S POSITION as eighth alternate meant that eight men who had qualified for the heats would have to drop out before he was summoned .
5 It is important that private tenants who are suffering harassment or illegal eviction have access to solicitors to help them enforce their legal rights .
6 Section 4 of the Business Names Act 1985 requires that sole traders who operate their business in any name other than their own must display their own name clearly on all business letters , invoices , receipts , written orders for goods , etc. to be supplied to the business , and written demands for payment of debts owing to the business .
7 A general rule could be made that weak syllables which are phonologically composed of a plosive or fricative consonant plus are uncommon except in initial position in the words .
8 It is intolerable that Labour MPs who are also accountable to all the voters in their town should be turfed out by the block vote .
9 Moreover , it suggested that foster parents who had had the care of a child for five years or more should be able to apply for an adoption order without risk of removal by parents before a hearing .
10 I wanted to ensure that foreign visitors who came to this country were also covered by insurance .
11 On the other hand , the fact that foreign visitors who did not speak English ( a total of 13 ) were unable to complete questionnaires at all , means that the proportion of overseas visitors in the summer may in fact be greater than Table 2 would suggest .
12 The report , published on Dec. 11 , noted that " the presence of application-specific fixtures " on much of the equipment suggested that foreign manufacturers who serviced Iraq 's nuclear programme were probably aware of the intended use of the equipment .
13 Libraries with very small branch establishments have always faced this problem , and it is perhaps not surprising that Scottish libraries who face the additional problem of very low population densities and widely spaced service points , do not score highly on ‘ amount ’ of formal training :
14 In its appeal AI also expressed dismay at reports that Iraqi Kurds who returned to Arbil in northern Iraq following a government announcement of an amnesty for Kurds on 5 April were arbitrarily arrested , summarily executed or subjected to forms of cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment .
15 Already there is evidence that some firms which have introduced microelectronic production technology have experienced difficulties as a result of a shortage of engineers , technicians and programmers .
16 The fact that some countries who were signatories of the Convention had one system and some another reinforced the court in its view that no single system could be called for .
17 When the conversation turned to sex the interviewer asked , ‘ We 've heard that some women who ordinarily have difficulty achieving orgasm find themselves capable of multiple orgasms under LSD .
18 Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ?
19 From Africa it was noted in one or two cases , that some visitors who came from extremely distressing and confined situations found it hard to offer to groups the ‘ hopeful and inspiring ’ messages so often hoped for and expected .
20 We have seen that Locke agrees that some things which we know , such as that all numbers are even or odd , could not be learnt directly from experience , and that he explains that he never meant otherwise , for what experience gives us is not knowledge itself , but its materials in the form of ideas .
21 So the argument put forward by Machiavelli that a leader ‘ must not mind incurring the scandal of those vices without which it would be difficult to save the state ’ on the grounds ‘ that some things which seem virtues would , if followed , lead to one 's ruin and that some others which appear vices result in one 's greater security and well-being ’ , is completely contrary to Gandhi 's views .
22 But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness .
23 As Buck states , ‘ there is , in reality , a lot of difference between the expression of a preference and a choice and it seems that some parents who have heard of the new rights sometimes confuse these two concepts . ’
24 Within days of the allied liberation of Kuwait in late February [ see pp. 37982-90 ] it was evident that some Kuwaitis who had lived through the Iraqi occupation were disillusioned with the ruling Sabah family and were determined to demand political reforms .
25 Furthermore , they suggest that some researchers who have reported correlations between emotional support and health in the absence of life events might in fact be picking up a correlation between chronic strain and support .
26 Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances .
27 We know that some laws it may make will not be effective .
28 Test results show that some products which have been publicised as Alar-free by retailers and manufacturers were still found to contain Alar .
29 Withdrawal of support for activities not contractually required meant that some changes which teachers had been willing to make had not yet been realized .
30 But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps .
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