Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police service themselves recognize that there has to be a a need for change that they have to be brought up to date er and er I think you 'll see when I a announce my decisions on the Sheahy report er that er I am taking the need to er reform the police service , very seriously indeed . |
| 2 | It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about . |
| 3 | So the cost of a bottle of whisky that you buy on the plane home from holiday , is made up of both the manufacturer 's price and the airline 's profit . |
| 4 | Skilled , semi-skilled , non-skilled workers see the different levels of of livelihood that you see to be measured on sort of thing and er therefore you 've got ta good way of representing this society as a whole have n't you . |
| 5 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 6 | It ca n't bother her Bev because the amount of noise that we get through the walls is so bad and she 's in it , she 's actually there with the animals barking , so she takes no notice whatsoever of them |
| 7 | It merely hints that the world will be a better place if we support it because the unquantified benefits which will flow from it will put us on a level with Germany and France , assuming of course that we wish to be on a level with Germany and France . |
| 8 | The difference is of course that we fight for economic superiority , but many wars have derived from the same aim . |
| 9 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 10 | I 'll cooperate as far as I can , on the understanding of course that I remain in control — full control — of anything to do with my project . |
| 11 | But the problem being now of course that I think in line with most London boroughs there is club which tennis club which has tennis courts on Local Authority land . |
| 12 | All report a passionate directness of response that they attribute to the setting and the pathology of the patients , but which probably has as much to do with social class . |
| 13 | It 's not only a working instrument but the kind of guitar that you feel like picking up and playing at any time ; when it 's not wowing the punters it will probably spend its time lying on the sofa permanently on call . |
| 14 | We have seen significant changes world wide and that means that we should reappraise the amount of money that we devote to the diplomatic corps and to our aid budget . |
| 15 | It may sound like magic , but the trick is , first , to reduce the amount of money that you pay to the government and , second , to reduce real payroll costs while raising employees ' perceived income . |
| 16 | The revival of small-scale farmhouses cheeses and the subsequent interest in these individual products has been brought about partly by the farmers ' need to cut the amount of milk that they send to the Milk Marketing Board and partly by the public 's demand for ‘ real ’ cheeses with traditional texture and flavour . |
| 17 | Tigers also contact each other by means of roaring , a form of vocalization that they share with other members of the genus Panthera , namely lions and to a lesser extent leopards . |
| 18 | erm the format for these is one of four lectures , in which we revise in the first lecture ideas that are round about sixth form level and then in two lectures following that we take the teacher through , very quickly , the kind of coverage that we give to the topic in the university . |
| 19 | There 's the quiff from Peter , which is pointing out that the letter of confirmation that we reference to because it was a repeat , so reasonably enough they 're not going through all the assumptions , and he also is saying that the er , letters of confirmation that is a repeat of the previous job . |
| 20 | The kind of non-randomness that we see in living systems , on the other hand , is equivalent to a gigantic combination lock with an almost uncountable number of dials . |
| 21 | ‘ In the light of these realities , is it really reasonable to expect the police to apply to the Irish population in this country the presumption of innocence that they apply to other citizens ? |
| 22 | For example , the perceived colours of objects are only loosely related to the wavelengths of light that they reflect into our eyes . |
| 23 | Find out as much as you can about an item of equipment that you have at home ( eg stereo unit , electric mixer ) . |
| 24 | Erm every new square inch of hard surface on the ground or roofing er means that less rain when it falls will er move into the ground or will run off more quickly or rapidly fill the water courses and er sooner reach the points of constriction that we know about and cause flooding problems . |
| 25 | I seek to contrast that material ought with a formal ought which is a necessary element in the theory of law that I refer to as ‘ normative positivism ’ . |
| 26 | Living with somebody depressive has made me depressed on frequent occasions and th th the feelings of helplessness that you have in dealing with the person 's depression . |
| 27 | It 's er a kind of foam that they use for insulation . |
| 28 | But generally there are two main classes of isomerism that we deal with and very much like , like the classification on hydro-carbons that I did , there 's a whole variety of ways they can be classified that you 've seen . |
| 29 | I think again the sort of picture that you get from books is rather like a stage set , with everything new from the year nineteen fifty-eight or whatever , all bundled into a room together , this is what it looked like . |
| 30 | An example here may be the power of the receptionist within an organisation to project an image of that organisation since the receptionist is often the first point of contact that we have with organisations . |