Example sentences of "that on [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journey was so organized that on their way they passed through several German states , clearly hoping to find indications of pro-French feeling on the part of the South German sovereigns , who , it was thought , would be alarmed by the seemingly inexorable rise of Prussia . |
| 2 | The University of Cape Town Ballet had been there before , in 1941 and 1942 , building up local support to the extent that on their third visit , in September 1943 , all six performances in the Great Hall at Milner Park ( the theatre belonging to Witwatersrand University ) were sold out before the opening night . |
| 3 | Males have instead one X chromosome and one small Y chromosome , which means that on their single X they carry either the red or the non-red gene , but can not have both . |
| 4 | Or that on their first-ever real takeoff during base checks at Prestwick , most pilots have as much difficulty keeping at 1,500 feet circuit height as does a low-hour student in a Cessna 152 ? |
| 5 | He also found that on their face , the memoranda were intended to be immediately effective documents . |
| 6 | The whole affair came to an abrupt conclusion in August , when two members of the House Committee reported that on their way out of a board meeting , they came across a group of about fifteen women who were waiting outside the laundry for their pay , which had been due the previous day . |
| 7 | And since that assumption is implicit in the Webbs ' criticism of Owen , it can not be understood too clearly that on their argument there can be no place at all for industrial co-operatives , properly so-called : no place , because the ownership , whether individual or collective , of an industrial co-operative rests in the people working in it . |
| 8 | Most experimental studies of sleep now allow subjects a night of acclimatization to laboratory conditions , so that on their first night they are wired up in the usual way , but whatever recordings made are discarded , and the experiments proper begin on the second night . |
| 9 | They also found that on their return many women were unable to utilize the skills that they had acquired before having children . |
| 10 | Even before the abject failure of the People 's Will conspiracy , many radicals were aware that on their own they could not overthrow the existing order . |
| 11 | The argument relied on to support that submission is set out in the judgment in the following passage : ‘ The argument there is that on their arrival there is no home and there is no financial support forthcoming from the plaintiff who himself lives on state benefits . |
| 12 | It was understood that on their return they would have tea on Grace . |
| 13 | It is true that on their horses and with their arms they looked well at a review ; but they knew nothing of war . ’ |
| 14 | Many mujaheddin leaders were reported to be abroad and it was thought that Mujjaddedi , leader of the smallest mujaheddin group as well as of an influential Sufi brotherhood , was trying to delay stepping down in the hope that on their return they would support his continuation in office . |
| 15 | KOTC concluded that on their fleet of 23 vessels , repairs were cheaper than insurance and promptly cancelled their London cover for the entire fleet . |
| 16 | And there was the additional point that on their return they had appeared cheerful , as if from a windfall . |
| 17 | The work is most fascinating , the the records they hold are quite er large and erm , I 'm pleased to say that on their request , the Conservative group have have given the records of our group meetings since nineteen sixty to nineteen eighty-six to the , erm , record office , and before anyone rushes over , there is a , a , a slight before they 're released to the public . |
| 18 | The Irish-Americans said that on their return to the United States they would be reporting their findings to ‘ public and private officials ’ . |
| 19 | She provides a lopsided interpretation of Freemantle 's report that on her death bed the poet expressed concern for her father and asked that the subscription be carried on for his sake : |
| 20 | That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital . |
| 21 | His intention , quite clearly , must be that on her death she should be succeeded by her intestate heir . |
| 22 | It was with some trepidation , therefore , that on her way back she pushed open the gate and walked up the drive . |
| 23 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 24 | I did notice that on her ribber ( Knitmaster ) , both pile levers were in the ‘ closed ’ position . |
| 25 | Whichever may be the true explanation , it is certainly known that on her way across the wilderness north of Hermitage the queen was thrown by her horse into a peat bog , marked on modern maps as the Queen 's Mire . |
| 26 | It is said that on her deathbed Elizabeth , unable to speak , signified assent to the succession by a movement of her head or hand . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , it 's bliss … ’ she began , then noticed Xanthe 's delicate widening of her eyes and a slight wrinkle of pale nose , like white jade , and noticed that on her fair curls she was wearing a small moulded felt cap , with a slantwise spray of fluffy feathers — ; egret ? — curving into her nape . |
| 28 | Except that on her part it 's totally unnecessary ! ’ |
| 29 | But they both had shields against which the lances struck , and the beauty of it was that on her shield was the insignia of the sun , on his that of the moon ; so they were each protected by the principle they opposed . |
| 30 | The story current was that on its return flight the plane had been fired on mistakenly by a naval vessel in the Channel — the sea was full of our shipping , of course , in the weeks after D-Day , and there was a corresponding absence of German fighters . |