Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If before completion of execution , notice is given to the sheriff or bailiff that a bankruptcy order has been made , the sheriff or bailiff must hand over the proceeds to the official receiver or trustee subject to his costs of execution ( s 346(2) ) . |
| 2 | There was no mention of a restriction on the cost or repayment that a practice could obtain . |
| 3 | So many people had died during the siege either from wounds or illness that a considerable quantity of private stores had accumulated . |
| 4 | Stating at the end of the month or year that a set number of child welfare visits were achieved seems less exposing of one 's abilities than filling in a form stating what percentage of parents who received programme visits are reading to their babies , playing games with them and what nutritional and health targets have been met . |
| 5 | Now he seems so concerned to guard against roughness or superficiality that a measure of circumspection infects much of the playing . |
| 6 | Although memory that an arousing slide has been presented is generally likely to be extremely good , there is evidence that the types of details remembered about such a slide may be different from those remembered from more mundane slides . |
| 7 | In hilly country , horses always like to spend some of each day on the tops of the hills : they need to satisfy their desire for the space and freedom that a hilltop provides . |
| 8 | There is a growing awareness of the disadvantages to employment and industry that a return to the discredited and failed policies of the Labour party would create . |
| 9 | Such was the sense of shock and disgust that a number of RUC officers offered to work on their days off and without pay to help track down the killer . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most frightening of all the symptoms of stress and anxiety that a person may experience is the panic attack . |
| 11 | This kind of close integration between research and higher education is obviously highly desirable : discussion with students so advancing the teacher 's understanding and insight that a stronger publication emerges . |
| 12 | A person during hypnosis is so involved in fantasy and imagination that an apparently innocent question can actually create new memories . |
| 13 | Locke , although not opposed to corporal punishment as a final sanction , nor indeed for very young children of an age too tender to be reasoned with , in order to instil the necessary fear and awe that a child should have for an adult , strongly disapproved of beating once formal education had begun , just as he was equally opposed to bribing the child to work through material rewards . |
| 14 | On top of that , there are the feelings of disgrace and embarrassment that a firm of chartered accountants of our size and good professional reputation should find itself in this position — even if the factors are outside your control . ’ |
| 15 | But you have to balance that with the way a major wo n't allow you the same freedom of artistic licence and influence over your promotion and development that an independent company can offer . |
| 16 | Scotland has no separate parliament but differs from England so greatly in law and education that a fairly autonomous civil service operates from Edinburgh ( the Scottish Office ) and there is also a separate Registrar General . |
| 17 | As far back as the fourth century , one of the founding fathers of the Greek Orthodox Church , Saint Basil , reported with admiration and astonishment that a parent bird may risk its life for its nestlings by attempting to lure a predator away from the nest . |
| 18 | By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall . |
| 19 | He read in her face the surprise and shock that a suspicion confirmed can sometimes bring . |
| 20 | Contemporary feminist writers have seen her rather as a demonstration of the extreme body hatred and guilt that a patriarchal religion lays upon women . |
| 21 | Indeed normal conversation in their house was of such pitch and volume that a scream would hardly have been heard . |
| 22 | Conversely , there may be a deep-rooted fear that you wo n't be able to handle the extra attention and competition that a new figure may bring . |
| 23 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has stepped up the pressure on Bosnia 's warring parties to forge a peace agreement , urging Serbs and Croats to be more flexible and warning that a NATO military response is possible . |
| 24 | The strength comes from the coherence and consistency that a single perspective makes possible . |
| 25 | After he 'd found the half-burned counterfoil slips from the railway tickets stuffed down the back of the apartment 's disused fireplace , his next move had been to return to his Militia post and report that an anonymous source had given him some information on the whereabouts of Alina Petrovna , escapee from the prison hospital and probable murderer of the psychiatrist Belov . |
| 26 | League champs , and proof that a club can boot out its fascists |
| 27 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 28 | It is the particular organisation of movement in time , space and intensity that a choreographer achieves through his grouping of the various types of steps . |
| 29 | It is also very private , and well-meaning parents should n't delve for it , because it is so often Mum and Dad that a child dreads disappointing . |
| 30 | It rejects the divorce between law and politics that a conventionalist theory with the motives I described tries to secure . |