Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all . |
| 2 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 3 | What is the thing about this that concerns you most of all ? |
| 4 | If we are to admit similarities between the two modes we must not forget differences such as this that remain fundamental . |
| 5 | After all that got them out |
| 6 | Even if she did not suspect that she might once again be pregnant , she knew , after all that had taken place , she had no other option . |
| 7 | She felt a returning surge of anger — after all that had been said , did he really think she would sleep with him ? |
| 8 | After all that had just happened , his apparent lack of emotion was impossible to bear , and a wave of anger washed over her . |
| 9 | Seeing them after so long , after all that had happened to her , it was as though they were strangers . |
| 10 | After all that had happened she was still unable to betray Peter — in fact , it was because of all that had happened that she felt she could n't be the one to give away the details of his difficulties , especially not to Marc , now that she knew how things stood between them both . |
| 11 | Maybe it was n't the body after all that led to Mellor 's downfall . |
| 12 | I took him into the business with me , you know , after all that bother at the Turk 's Head . ’ |
| 13 | But for the dressing-up ghosts it just about sends them crazy , after all that bother , finding the right clothes , and often arranging to carry their heads in funny places — I mean not on their necks — and then the lifer just does n't take any notice . |
| 14 | After all that exercise she might sleep too long . |
| 15 | The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons ' Act 1970 provided the basis for much that comes under the heading of community care . |
| 16 | The ultimate source for much that has been discussed must certainly be Pearl , with its story of the ( failed ) escape from mortality , its heavily traditional phrasing , and its fantastically complex metrical scheme , of twelve-line cross-rhymed stanzas with alliteration , assonance , syntax-variation and ( even Tolkien did not attempt this ) stanza-linking and refrains.ii However the Pearl tradition did not last till Shakespeare and Milton and the Romantics , who are accordingly and to that extent impoverished . |
| 17 | One other element of this that deserves a brief outline was the adoption in 1925 of a contributory pension scheme to run alongside the non-contributory one . |
| 18 | Was it consciousness of this that got Mr Milosevic belatedly to urge the Bosnian Serbs to sign the Vance-Owen plan ? |
| 19 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 20 | Art is at least as important as Politics , whether in Peace or war , and it is Pound 's intransigent conviction of this that brings out the philistine in others beside Peter Robinson . |
| 21 | It is the realisation of this that has led to sensory methods of assessment being developed . |
| 22 | There are two aspects of this that have to be considered : the relation between territory size , hunting areas and group sizes in predators ; and how these are related to the diversity of prey taken by different predators . |
| 23 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |
| 24 | There was criticism of much that passed for training . |
| 25 | Situated close to Harrods and just a few doors along Beauchamp Place from Kanga , the dress shop owned by Prince Charles 's confidante Lady Tryon , San Lorenzo has been at the centre of much that has happened around Diana this year . |
| 26 | We have referred earlier to a third interpretation of normalisation which we see as being in line with the spirit of much that has been written , particularly in the earlier days . |
| 27 | If we stand back and consider the structure which has resulted from the combination of primary rules of obligation with the secondary rules of recognition , change and adjudication , it is plain that we have here not only the heart of a legal system , but a most powerful tool for the analysis of much that has puzzled both the jurist and the political theorist … |
| 28 | As far as I am aware , this theory has found very little formal or scholarly expression , although it lies below the surface of much that has been informally expressed by directors of English ensembles and by others , both in conversation and in the various kinds of writing generated by the commercial music business . |
| 29 | I am impatient and intolerant of much that seems to me to be merely negative , if not actually destructive , legislation . ’ |
| 30 | It 's one of these that uses less fuel . |