Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 2 | It is equally astonishing that the Germans never guessed that we were breaking the Enigma code . |
| 3 | The project was a complete success in that the Russians never suspected that their Moscow traffic was being read . |
| 4 | There was no adequate trading base for this financial performance , and it is most unlikely that the promoters ever thought that there was . |
| 5 | It must be taken that the Commissioners honestly believed that the defendant was personally liable , and really intended to take legal proceedings against him , as they had done against Goble . |
| 6 | This was held to be incorrect , but irrelevant ; incorrect , because a mere sense of alarm was insufficient to give rise to a fear of a breach of the peace , and irrelevant because the justices had found ( or there was evidence from which they could have found ) that the constables reasonably believed that the defendant 's own behaviour was likely to constitute a breach of the peace . |
| 7 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 8 | The American government had pressed the Bahamians to clean out the drug lords , but instead the trade had flourished until the Americans finally insisted that their own coastguard be allowed to patrol Bahamian waters . |
| 9 | If the adventurers specifically state that they want to look for spell ingredients , or if a spellcaster makes an Int test without specifically stating this intention , they can find the following : a fire opal ( Resist Fire ) , a crystal prism ( Destroy Illusions ) , an 8-inch diameter golden hoop ( Vanish , but the hoop is red gold , so the spell will cost 9 MPs rather than 6 ) , a magnifying glass ( Banish Illusion ) , and a polished silver mirror ( Camouflage Illusion ) . |
| 10 | Yemen was already housing some 50,000 Somali and Ethiopian refugees and the authorities there said that their resources , especially health care provision , were overstretched . |
| 11 | The news agency Tanjug on July 4 reported an 86 per cent turnout of the population in Serbia itself ( i.e. excluding the two autonomous provinces , Kosovo and Vojvodina ) , and the authorities subsequently claimed that 96.8 per cent of these had supported the constitutional proposal . |
| 12 | The maximum effective length for pumping is 30 metres and the regulations therefore require that the cesspool or septic tank should be sited within this distance of a vehicular access . |
| 13 | But she also denied knowing Dassac , and the police subsequently discovered that she had had numerous telephone conversations with him and paid him large sums of money under a false name through a Swiss bank account . |
| 14 | Changes in traffic noise at these sites affected subjective response in a manner consistent with the investigators ' findings , and the investigators therefore predict that , to the extent that noise levels have remained constant at these sites , subjective response will also have remained constant . |
| 15 | High wartime taxation was placing a heavy strain on the nation , and the Tories repeatedly claimed that they could " manage the War with more Frugality than you Whigs " . |
| 16 | The Iraqis moved armour into positions south of Basrah to block the more obvious of these steps and the Iranians evidently decided that Kuwait could be attended to some other time . |
| 17 | But the advisers subsequently admitted that they had based this estimate solely on figures supplied by British Telecom . |
| 18 | Most support workers worked with only one client ; but the figures below show that this was not true for ail . |
| 19 | But the teams later discovered that the conduit was dry , suggesting that the lava had already found a new course . |
| 20 | That policy was reasonable in a buoyant market , but the directors now feel that even capitalisation should discontinue : ‘ Your company is one of the very few in the sector which does not capitalise any interest or other finance costs and has no off-balance sheet accounting of any kind . ’ |
| 21 | But the functionalists also argue that the ideology which informs the common law approach is hostile to the positive aims of modern government , that the judiciary display a philosophical , cultural , or political bias when reviewing administrative action and therefore that new institutions with new personnel are required to develop a new jurisprudence for the modern age . |
| 22 | But the facts strongly suggest that the current of liberation really began to flow in 1953 , the year not only of the Kinsey Report but of two significant debuts : those of James Bond and Playboy . |
| 23 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 24 | 1 The search — the police hunt for an attacker will occur only under certain circumstances , when the police really believe that a crime was committed and , usually , that he is unknown to the victim . |
| 25 | There was a hint of panic in the air yesterday , as though the markets suddenly realised that the grapeshot fired by the authorities last week might be heading in their direction . |