Example sentences of "[noun] that [indef pn] of [pron] " in BNC.

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1 May I als also ask her to bear in mind that none of us are in a great hurry to go through again the expense and the dislocation of the relocation of the British Library , and if this land is not made available to the Library , that might happen rather sooner than we wish .
2 So is indecisiveness an excess of imagination which can see so many possibilities in each alternative that none of them can be rejected ?
3 In welcoming the release of Mr. Waite and Mr. Sutherland , may I express the hope that none of us forget that there are still more hostages whom we wish to see speedily returned to their homes .
4 ‘ In case my digestive juices were making so much noise that none of you heard what I said , I 'll repeat it .
5 The trio were so utterly absorbed in each other for the next half hour that none of them noticed Rose Williams watching them from some little distance , her face screwed into a sour smile of bitterness and longing .
6 Closely resembling a trade union movement , the Workingmen 's Association gave Cipriani a mass support that none of his politically independent rivals could match .
7 you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ?
8 I may share with others the sense of wonder that none of us could have believed in 1987 that the most significant international changes would take place .
9 I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share .
10 That was one of the reasons he liked living out at Little Knoll , so he could have his own life , his own place that none of them at school knew about .
11 Charlotte then employed every sign that she knew to tell the other fishermen that none of them should put to sea on that day , to no avail .
12 It is only if a strike remains in the news for a long period that anything of its history or underlying causes will emerge and then only in the ‘ quality ’ press , rarely on television or in the tabloid newspapers where most people obtain their information .
13 ‘ I do not imagine for a minute that someone of your ability will have come here without prying into my background .
14 Hawley says : ‘ That 's because when he was at Hunslet Parkside he used to score four or five tries a match and was so quick off the mark that none of his team-mates could keep up with him . ’
15 The soft drinks sellers tapped out rhythms on the sides of their coolers with bottle-openers , keeping up an incessant chant of Peps , Peps , Peps , although Pepsi was the one drink that none of them had .
16 Such strict training was given by Tiller that none of his dancers would have contemplated talking in the first place .
17 We have , for example , an electronics officer so unbelievably advanced in his speciality that none of your much-vaunted high-technology whizzkids in Silicon Valley would even begin to know what he 's talking about . ’
18 The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow .
19 So the first union issued instructions that none of their men would man , service or tow empty barges belonging to the company .
20 Film had always played an important part in the admiral 's career ( he had founded the Royal Naval Film Corporation ) , and rather than write his autobiography , he had recorded , with John Terraine as questioner , some seven hours of reflection on his life and personal relationships , and had left instructions that none of it was to be shown publicly until after his death .
21 I mean if one can use a slightly awkward word like ‘ policing ’ , and I think there is a sense that none of us want to be acting as substitute parents and , you know , policing student behaviour in a way that suggests that they 're not yet fully mature .
22 With that , careless of his obvious amazement that someone of her slender weight could not only pack such a punch but dare to do so , she spun rapidly round and raced back the way she had come .
23 My right hon. Friend has shown the utmost skill and stamina over the past two days in keeping us away from the dangerous path towards the centralised Europe that none of us who are good Europeans want to see .
24 It is a curiously unreal state of affairs , a world that none of us lives in outside the study .
25 The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit
26 It looked like a Hollywood film stunt — until we realized with chilling certainty that none of us anywhere near the petrol-pump would have survived if the truck had gone up .
27 Conversely , sixty-three per cent of those who do not go to church report that none of their friends or acquaintances has ever invited them ’ ( McGavran and Hunter 1980:33 , 34 ) .
28 To take the force of this testimony that none of us deserves to avoid , it 's not necessary to like either Olson or Pound , but it is necessary that we respect them .
29 ‘ You make him come alive in a way that none of his fancy speeches can , ’ Walterkin said .
30 ‘ During that interim period Doctor Who just took off with the Daleks in a way that none of us could have imagined , and after that there was no more discussion about it coming off the air .
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