Example sentences of "[that] [noun sg] [noun pl] [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I was aware that building societies are in the habit of launching new products from time to time , primarily to attract new investors .
2 John Davies , medical director of the Harley Street Sports Clinic , said that football managers were in a uniquely stressful position .
3 More to the point is that the Discourse indicates the scientism of the period : it is taken for granted by the lecturer that Turner ought to paint a tree of a recognizable species , for example , and assumed that portrait painters are after an exact likeness .
4 But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt .
5 Lindblom ( 1977 ) , for example , argues that business interests are in a politically privileged position , to the extent that in any bargain struck between business and government , its terms will largely be dictated by business .
6 In a survey by Childcare Vouchers of more than 400 working mothers , 72% of nanny-users said that childcare problems were among the most stressful they had to cope with .
7 I have never subscribed to the view that schooldays are the happiest days of your life , but I do think that student days are among the happiest .
8 The newspapers embarked on a steady reporting of rape and sexual assault cases , alleged to be on the increase , although official figures stated that sex offences were at a 10-year low .
9 It may be significant that it is the only instance where pooling the data has a strengthening effect on the correlations , supporting the view that communication problems are at the root of a large number of industrial problems in all cultures .
10 Drawing with Iran and getting beat by Costa Rica are a great enough indignity , but coping with the knowledge that star players were on the verge of assaulting a policeman with a Hush Puppy is pushing loyalty to the limits .
11 The UK nevertheless drew attention to the fact that denitrification processes are in an early stage of development and that further research is necessary and that the protection of water sources may take years to have the desired effect … ’
12 On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living .
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