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

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1 ‘ It 's about that bit of paper you gave me .
2 The MEI was defined as that rate of discount which would equate the PV of a given stream of future income from a project , with the initial capital outlay ( the supply price ) : where S = the supply price ; PV = the present value ; R = the expected yearly return ; and i = that rate of discount necessary to equate the present value of future income with the initial cost of the project .
3 During that time of course nobody there to run it the youth theatre sadly er ran down .
4 We were negotiating with the erm Conservative group and during that period of negotiation we shifted their budget up by two and a half million pounds .
5 During that week of leave there was one other incident which was memorable and could have been serious , if not fatal , for me .
6 He suspects that a black mark went firmly down against his name for turning down the job and when he was later asked to become personnel manager for that division of ICI he was left in no doubt that it was an offer he should not refuse .
7 Taking care not to scratch his hands on the holding spikes , he rummaged through the weed feeling for that spasm of movement which would indicate a dying fish .
8 As we have seen , during the years from about 1080 to 1095 , Anselm had given much thought to the problem of liberty , and had reached a definition of free will which left no room for that freedom of choice which is commonly regarded as its essential feature .
9 For that kind of penance they will pay £550 and know that the hard work is just a beginning .
10 For that piece of devilry you will be well repaid , never fear ! ’
11 ‘ I do n't have much time for that sort of thing myself , ’ said Wilcox .
12 But while the breaking of convention may be agreeable , and therefore laughable ( cf. certain views of Freud , below ) , there is never any questioning of what is " right " and what is " wrong " : for that sort of conundrum one should look rather to a romance like Marie de France 's lay Eliduc .
13 The thing with th , with getting there at two for the gate right , because you can go in and get seats , for that amount of time you want a seat .
14 So we 're looking for a for a separate policy in the industry employment section of the structure plan , we do not wish to see any amendment to part of E two or for that matter to Policy I five , both of which we we fully support .
15 From a practical point of view , however , since man never attains the ideal of perfect love , he will retain possession of his body while striving continually for that perfection of love which does not shrink from making the ultimate sacrifice .
16 ‘ The only thing left to do is to sort through that pile of things we cleared out of the cupboards and throw away what we do n't need anymore . ’
17 He 's trying so hard to force his teeth through that wodge of food he 's in danger of developing lockjaw .
18 Beverley Cross said that it was an admiration of one performer for another ‘ and also he had such a soft spot for her after that year in Share My Lettuce .
19 Stiffly , arm in arm , the Brothers walked off towards that place of deprivation which was in a dark gondola jutting below the fortress-monastery into the lonely void .
20 ‘ Although I would say that it 's primarily in the interest of that segment of business itself , ’ said , general manager and deputy treasurer of the Bank of Scotland , ‘ everyone has a complementary role to play ’ .
21 It was the culmination of that mystique of rule which had first flowered in the Punjab under John and Henry Lawrence fifty years before , and whose objective basis in reality was now almost universally taken for granted .
22 She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away .
23 But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined .
24 At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention .
25 If meaning is brought to birth within the text , the text itself is the bearer of all the Reality that inheres in meaning ; and that , when one thinks about it , is , while by no means all the Reality there is , quite a good portion of that part of Reality which matters to us .
26 They will make less than he does of that part of Eliot which was a ‘ good ventriloquist ’ .
27 As a result of that contract of course you have some rights er but the shop have some rights as well .
28 In other words , far from having lessened , uneven development has changed its nature as the geography of the division of labour in society , and the dimensions of that division of labour itself , have evolved .
29 Nor , apparently , did they spring from his disposition , for his outlook was less severe than that of his father and he was quite devoid of that propensity for abstraction which had impaired the prospects of Alexander I. Although he liked parades and reviews , his inclinations were not really militaristic .
30 The British Museum ( Natural History ) exhibits a print of a 1783 fireball with the contemporary caption that it was ‘ of that species of Meteor which Dr Woodward and others call the Draco volans or flying dragon . ’
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