Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is surely a powerful confirmation of his underlying concern with tragedy throughout the whole of 1871 that in this period we find , again and again , lengthy drafts and preliminary studies for one part or other of BT , but no other sizeable fragments ascribable to a " large " book " about Greece " and falling outside the actual book 's eventual range . |
| 2 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 3 | For one thing , how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected ? |
| 4 | Americas Watch estimated in 1986 that at any one time , 300 or more prisoners were held in DGSE facilities . |
| 5 | There was a widespread feeling in 1951 that at any moment the Chinese , who had already identified themselves in US eyes as aggressors in Korea , might extend their intervention to Vietnam . |
| 6 | It was surely repugnant to commonsense that in this area of legal activity a local authority should be prosecuted by one of its tenants without first being given the opportunity by that tenant to remedy the consequences of a neglect to repair the dwelling that the tenant occupied . |
| 7 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
| 8 | The Bernard brothers were so struck by this that for some weeks afterwards Henrietta was known to them as ‘ Piss-off darling ’ . |
| 9 | The insurers also sought to distinguish Lawrence by contending that in that case the student 's money had not passed to the taxi driver and that the student had not conferred on the taxi driver the rights of an owner . |