Example sentences of "that a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been a mathematician in the years gone by , I was amazed at the audacity of the polling companies to state that a sample of 1,000 voters was representative plus or minus three percent of a total electorate of some 43½ million . |
| 2 | I estimated that a sample of one in 12 night visits performed by general practitioners in Berkshire in the year beginning 1 July 1991 would provide details of about 2000 visits . |
| 3 | The problem then arises that a sample of such size , or indeed any large plot , will mask any microtopographical diversity in the forest and thus any local species assemblages under particular microenvironmental conditions . |
| 4 | Pierson ( 1981 ) suggested that a sample with the brightest observed luminescence be kept in the chamber and used as a reference against which the intensity of other sample areas could be less arbitrarily judged . |
| 5 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 6 | Press reports said that a proposal for joint sovereignty over Gibraltar was discussed , but there was no official confirmation . |
| 7 | The procedure envisaged is that a proposal in the social policy area would first be submitted to the Council of the twelve member states . |
| 8 | As recently as fifty years ago Hitler ordered that a statue of Sir Francis Drake at Offenburg be razed to the ground because he was holding a potato plant . |
| 9 | He also warned that a slowdown in money supply growth this summer could threaten the recovery at just the wrong moment . |
| 10 | It was here , under a straggle of dwarf oaks and rowans that a troupe of elderly walkers had decided to halt for their feed . |
| 11 | STC IDEC LIMITED has an open management style and , as a result , most employees were aware that a consolidation of activities was going to take place but that there were no suitable local premises which the company could take over . |
| 12 | It is however true that a depreciation in share values will be of concern to management , because of possible repercussions in the market for corporate control . |
| 13 | SPAR is sensitive to different degrees of referential success , in that a reference to a focused entity is deemed to be more ‘ successful ’ than a reference to an unfocused one . |
| 14 | I consider in the light of the foregoing that a reference to the objectives of the Community system of quotas can not be used to justify national rules on the registration of fishing vessels , even if those rules were applicable only to vessels intended to fish for species subject to quotas . |
| 15 | The other reason we claim so often to be arguing about a matter of principle is that there is so little substance in many arguments that a reference to principle is necessary in order to sustain the argument . |
| 16 | The articles or the agreement may say that a reference to the auditors has to take place in every instance ; in other cases a reference is necessary only if there is a dispute . |
| 17 | From this it may be judged that the Chauncys had been friends of the Blencowe family , and that a reference from Susanna Jennens carried weight with them . |
| 18 | England were due to meet Wales in the final match of the round robin series today knowing that a share of the honours would give them the crown . |
| 19 | In order to preserve modularity , this power could not , of course , extend to repairing the modules themselves , for that is just the sort of tinkering that a principle of modularity would rule out . |
| 20 | ‘ Two years ago the Government ruled that a budget of £22.3m was reasonable for this council , ’ he said . |
| 21 | They asked her what had happened , and she said that a rusalka from the lake had hurt Viktor . |
| 22 | Nuadu thought that a glitter of amusement showed from within the folds of the hood . |
| 23 | I 'm absolutely sure that a chat with him would help you . |
| 24 | On waste , Yeo stated that a levy on landfill waste would encourage waste producers to move away from landfill and towards other methods of disposal , including recycling . |
| 25 | The Chancellor said that the tax rate followed clear indications from the Government that a levy on the lottery would be imposed , but , he added , there would be no tax on winnings . |
| 26 | According to the narrator , Patrick is ‘ so far from being anti-semitic that a couple of his best friends really were Jews ’ ( but who can these two best friends be — can Ormerod , unmentioned in the later novel , be one ? ) . |
| 27 | This commitment to materialism means that a couple of standard dualist objections must be faced . |
| 28 | If the girls do not appear to have an even average awareness of culture — a friend said that a couple of years ago Zsuzsa had never heard of |
| 29 | In 1979 I had built a small wind-up lectern for table-top use and followed that a couple of years later with a full-size floor-standing lectern that operates hydraulically . |
| 30 | I made sure that a couple of books were left at home so that there was more room . |