Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] that [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I was I would n't say surprised because the matter is already well know , but I found an additional piece of evidence for the proposition that while they knew a lot about what happened to their commodities in their countries — how it was produced , how it was distributed internally and how it was sold internationally — they generally did n't have very much information as to what happened afterwards . |
| 2 | The second point is crucial for the reason that if we include in the set items that can not undergo the variation in question , or items that undergo different patterns of linguistic variation , the quantitative results will be false . |
| 3 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 4 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 5 | I am deeply grateful to my parents for the fact that until I was twelve years old and started at the grammar school , I was completely unaware of class distinctions . |
| 6 | Now it may for the game that if he can cover the square number twelve , he will score more points than if he covers the square with the nine . |
| 7 | An obvious instance would be the contrast between the suggestion that although we understand the proposition that God exists , we could have no evidence that it is true , and the suggestion that the proposition is incomprehensible to us , and hence a fortiori we can neither know it to be true nor be justified in believing it . |
| 8 | Most editors and journalists are perfectly honest about the fact that when they need help they tend to go to those PROs who have been helpful in the past . |
| 9 | Okay we started off and we was talking about the fact that when we perceive things they start off in origin as energy signals in the environment and we detect those changes in the energy and somewhere in the process they get converted into our experiences of perception . |
| 10 | It 's about the fact that when you walked out and left me on Saturday night you went straight to Lexy ! |
| 11 | Effeminate , spoilt and faithless , he was a bitter disappointment to her , and was so thoroughly despised by the rest of the Court that when she became pregnant there were rumours about the child having possibly been fathered by one of her favourites . |
| 12 | Now these houses were of the kind that when you walk in through the door at the front you go into a l sitting room , through the next door is what can be a kitchen cum living room , and the staircase is n't immediately obvious but what it is is it 's a door that looks like a cupboard . |
| 13 | Although he was not the very first , he has come to be regarded as the pioneer , bush-whacking anthropologist , the originator of the doctrine that until you have lived cheek by jowl with an exotic tribe and spoken their language fluently you can not claim full professional status . |
| 14 | And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things . |
| 15 | It is a mark of the success of the policy that although they are often regarded as real people , they are rarely treated as such . |
| 16 | Chair , we have through this , what we 've actually s what you 're actually saying there , because I , I happen to be of the view that when you ask for identification of five percent across all the committees and then you start to take that quite happily from the smaller spend committee , then clearly you 're in a position where you have to address the er , question , do we really want to provide this service at all , and that would be tragic in the case of economic development , because it 's so vital to the erm , economic development of the county as a whole , and so , yes , there , I would suggest that there 's clearly the need to be a corporate view , and a corporate er , er , will to actually put up resources at your disposal , er , er , especially since five B was n't actually , although it was it had n't actually been granted , so it was a bit of an unknown quantity when perhaps the first P A G erm , sat and deliberated . |
| 17 | The maximum requirement was that Galileo should be warned by the Commissary of the Inquisition that if he were to hold , defend , or teach the Copernican doctrine in any way , he would be imprisoned . |
| 18 | Siome news in brief — the fatal accident inquiry into drug deaths in Glasgow has just ended with the sheriff telling the parents of the victim that while he understood their feelings of helplessness and grief , it was n't his function to hold the general inquiry into the misuse of drugs . |
| 19 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 20 | ‘ We do n't want people to be abused or intimidated but just to be made aware of the fact that if they are wearing a fur coat the public have got a right to say something . ’ |
| 21 | In spite of her shaking legs , of the heat swamping up from her stomach , of the overwhelming desire to throw caution to the winds and not think about anything else , she was also conscious of the fact that if she gave in , went out with Karl , Uncle Willi would be unbearably hurt , and that she could n't cope with . |
| 22 | Equally , many people sell their house and move somewhere smaller without taking account of the fact that when they are spending more time at home they may actually want more space , rather than less . |
| 23 | that we 're well aware of the fact that when we 're doing this , of course there 's usually a degree of adverse publicity . |
| 24 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 25 | Unwilling to be a wallflower at the workstation ball , Intergraph Corp muscled in with an announcement that it will implement Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system for its Intergraph Clipper RISC microprocessor — despite the fact that although it was one of the very first to declare a commitment , it has still not made good on its promise that it will put OSF/1 on the Clipper . |
| 26 | At the moment he seems to be veering towards the idea that if you did more good than bad during your life you go straight to Heaven , an arrangement which at least processes the merit of simplicity ; the rest sounds like something dreamt up by a vindictive bureaucrat on acid while closely inspecting something Hieronymus Bosch painted on one of his bleak but imaginative days . |
| 27 | Solicitors for the feudal superiors — the Scottish Episcopal Church — have warned the man behind the plan that if he proceeds with his plan , the church has the power to repossess the building . |
| 28 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 29 | Erm I was sent a booklet from the D S S asking for various financial details , with the instructions that if I did n't complete the booklet and send it back to them to the D S S , my benefits would stop . |
| 30 | In the Western Fells region covered by the FRCC Scafell , Dow and Eskdale Guide , Al Phizaclea continues to explore nooks and crannies with the philosophy that if it does n't move and is n't already in the guide then it must be climbed . |