Example sentences of "the [noun] that [indef pn] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McMurdo would like to persist with the illusion that everything he touches turns to gold , but several Scottish professionals think otherwise . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 3 | It was therefore decided by the Council that anyone who elects to pay by a single lump sum payment should do so by or on 31 May in any one year . |
| 4 | Quite early there came the contradiction that anyone who takes on an extreme diet must meet . |
| 5 | I think when somebody teaches it they teach it in the premise that everybody they 're talking to is heterosexual . |
| 6 | Such a recitation may lead to the conclusion that one who consistently holds to this position ( as has been my experience ) lands outside the church . |
| 7 | True enough , but how easily this can lead to the conclusion that anyone who attempts to deal with things that matter must be a bore , that rather than run the risk of talking nonsense one should play it safe and stick to charming trifles … . |
| 8 | Yet addiction specialists scoff at the notion that someone who already faces death through overdose or through contracting Aids from hypodermic needles is likely to change his behavour because of a drug test . |
| 9 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Auntie , who doted on Billy as the last child of his generation , was perplexed by the feeling that something she had done was not quite right . |
| 11 | And since , as Mr Lawrence says , there could hardly be anything personal in the attack , we 're left with the probability that anyone who had happened along at that moment would have been dealt with in the same way . |
| 12 | He is an accomplice , in the sense that everyone who joins another in decoding a linguistic sign co-operates with them in the establishment of its meaning ; but we can see that the sign Iago offers him is just the opposite of what Othello wants to believe , or has believed till now . |
| 13 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 14 | Mrs Blakey had a way of saying , annoying Stephen because of the implication that everything they did had to be done together . |
| 15 | Children need to feel safe and secure about the world they grow up in , and it is unwise to give them the idea that everything they eat or come into contact with is a potential threat . |
| 16 | IT 'S THE nightmare that everyone who lives near a big airport dreads . |
| 17 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |
| 18 | ‘ I would lend you something of mine , were it not for the fact that everything I own would be indecently short . |
| 19 | But what stands stark and clear , above all speculation , arguments , discussions and justifications , is the fact that anything which allows itself to be used to sustain such atrocious misery can not possibly be anything but a travesty of a ‘ religion ’ within the meaning of that word that all right-minded and honourable people intensely desire . |
| 20 | Nor is it flippant liberalism to point this out — though there may be significance in the fact that anyone who does so has immediately to excuse himself , as I find myself doing . |
| 21 | What do ordinary readers think , when their eyes catch the fact that someone they know is concerned with a police inquiry into crime ? |
| 22 | ‘ I certainly do n't want to give the impression that everyone who changed their mind is an adulterer . |
| 23 | By the middle of January 1937 , he had spoken to Mairet , and he gave the impression that anything he might write about the crisis in the New English Weekly would be done with some reluctance , not least because he was extremely busy . |