Example sentences of "with the [noun] that [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 5 | Crowther 's concern that the lay press was weak in its coverage of science led him in 1928 to confront The Manchester Guardian 's legendary editor C. P. Scott with the quip that although there was n't such a profession as science journalism , he , J. G. Crowther , proposed to invent it . |
| 6 | ‘ They are obsessed with the idea that if they make changes , it 's a criticism of the way they are doing things . |
| 7 | We had arranged with the agents that if we were interested we would stay the night in a local hotel and the next day meet the builder who had done much of the reconstruction of the place . |
| 8 | Australian cricketers commuting to and from England have breezed through the island since the beginning of such journeys in 1878 , but usually with the attitude that if it is Tuesday it must be Trincomalee . |
| 9 | Likewise , unlike the Labour party , my party and its predecessor have had no difficulty with the proposition that if we create a Scottish Parliament with the kind of effective deveolution which the Bill proposes , the case for the retention of the same numbers of Members of Parliament who presently come from Scotland to Westminster would be weakened . |
| 10 | SERAFIN : I was just thinking how often philosophy begins with the promise that if we can manage to get our thinking right about some basic concept we can then go on to restructure our thinking about everything else — and how rarely this later part of the programme is ever reached … |
| 11 | ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer . |
| 12 | Reeling somewhat from the gin concoction , and making for the captain 's office , I console myself with the thought that if I need anything from an appendectomy to open heart surgery , there is no shortage of equipment or expertise to hand . |
| 13 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 14 | Nevertheless 68 per cent agreed with the suggestion that if they failed " in reality this unit will not be allowed to close " . |
| 15 | In my view many manufactured nets are skimped on width with the result that when they are set the necessary amount of slack within the net can only be achieved by the sacrifice of adequate height . |
| 16 | But I think all the silliness is all part of actually adjusting to the condom , and something to do with the embarrassment that because they do n't know enough about it they , they do n't want to be er , seen to be silly |
| 17 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 18 | So this now leaves us with the view that if we reduce our intake of all fat our health will certainly benefit and so will our waistlines . |
| 19 | This is consistent with the observation that while there is a significant mortality associated with the first variceal bleed ( 20% Child 's B patients ) survival rate from subsequent bleeds is substantially better . |
| 20 | This difference between the two structures accords very closely with the fact that while we can readily use nouns ( including even proper names ) in the prenominal attributive position to qualify other nouns , we seldom find the corresponding nouns distributed across subject and post-copular position : ( 3 ) the Atlanta flight his St. Francis medallion ( 4 ) the flight is Atlanta This medallion was St. Francis |
| 21 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought it might have something to do with the fact that when it emerged that I 'd received the letter , Ivy Cook would become persona non grata in the Miletti family . ’ |
| 23 | I was so struck with the place that when I came back to Le Court I told John that he ought to go there for a visit . |