Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |
| 2 | Striped shirt tapped a gold pencil thoughtfully against his teeth and said that of course one had every respect for someone wishing to take such a stand and that in that case we must see what could be done with the portfolio as it was . |
| 3 | The evidence of video films is that the police advanced at a trot and that at all times they were controlled . |
| 4 | The format of these meetings has recently been changed and it is hoped that at the March and November meetings the administrative details will be kept to a minimum and that at least one major policy issue will be discussed in depth . |
| 5 | Some knowing souls disagree with the national selectors ' assessment in reckoning that Watt is too tall for a prop and that in the 1990 District Championship he was the outstanding ball-winner at the front of the line-out . |
| 6 | Sometimes these were ad hominem arrangements-that in Kefe was dissolved after a year and that in Kutahya when the holder moved on to his next post , though Kutahya was recreated a mevleviyet in 989/1581 — but many of them had become permanent by the end of the century . |
| 7 | Only students of history are conscious of the fact that the Covenanting times lasted for over half a century and that before the end of the period some of the skirmishes were between factions , supposedly on the same side in the conflict . |
| 8 | Myers believes that soil erosion is already a problem and that at least 90 000 km 2 of land are so badly affected that they can no longer sustain crop production . |