Example sentences of "that they are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system ! |
| 2 | 4.3 The above forecasts shall be given by the Company to the Supplier on the basis that they are for information only , and , while the Company will exercise all reasonable care in their compilation , the Company shall be under no obligation ( legal or otherwise ) to order all or any of or no more than the quantities shown in the said forecasts . |
| 3 | Please send contributions direct to the office at Epsom , clearly stating that they are for this fund . |
| 4 | If so , estimate how long this will take , call the candidates for interview that much earlier than you would otherwise have done , and let them know in the letter that they are to be given a tour first . |
| 5 | Or that they are to be judges , or police commissioners , or toilet attendants . |
| 6 | When the press gets wind of it , the cronyism gives way to abuse of power , as people whose worst offence is to have arranged expensive air trips are smeared with the rumour that they are to be subject to criminal investigation . |
| 7 | As for the meaning of dependent conditionals , it is possible and perhaps necessary to say of them , as it is commonly said of " if " statements of various kinds , that they are to be taken as primitive , in the sense of not being open to analytical definition or reductive analysis . |
| 8 | Their meaning is such that they are to be distinguished from various other " if " statements , that they have certain logical properties , and that they are entailed by independent nomic conditionals together with further premisses in a way derived from the antecedents of the latter conditionals . |
| 9 | Round up all the children , and tell them that they are to be treated to sweets to celebrate the day . |
| 10 | Even as a measure of liability , it is of less importance now that shares are almost invariably issued on terms that they are to be fully paid up on or shortly after allotment and are frequently issued at a price exceeding their nominal value . |
| 11 | When the arrears are payable , the presumption is that they are to be paid provided there are surplus assets available , whether or not these represent accumulated profits which might have been distributed by way of dividend , but that they are payable only to the date of the commencement of the winding up . |
| 12 | Processions commonly or customarily held , and funeral processions are exempt from the notice requirement , presumably because the police will already be fully aware that they are to be held , and do not therefore fall within the ‘ triggering ’ rationale of the requirement . |
| 13 | While the expert clause itself may lay down that the parties are to be responsible for the fees and expenses of the expert in equal shares , which is quite common , or that they are to be met by some other party ( see 8.12 ) , the clause itself may not be sufficient to establish the expert 's entitlement unless its terms are clearly incorporated into the expert 's contract to conduct the reference . |
| 14 | Er he he he had been , in verse twenty five , now great multitudes were going along with him , and he turned to them and said to them , and you got there what he tell , what he says , he 's talking about discipleship , and of the importance of following him , and the cost that will be involved in following him , and the responsibility of those who follow him , that they are to be salt within their generation , within their environment . |
| 15 | It was revealed later that they are to be held outside Liverpool at one of Britain 's four special secure units for child offenders . |
| 16 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 17 | THE ITV companies have publicly denied that they are at loggerheads after missing the deadline to agree on a new system for commissioning programmes for the ITV network from next year . |
| 18 | In the case of amniocentesis tests , these are not widely available to pregnant women unless their age suggests that they are at significantly greater risk of having a Down 's Syndrome child . |
| 19 | Mono-unsaturated fatty acids were , until recently , considered ‘ neutral ’ in their effect on the concentration of cholesterol in the blood but new evidence suggests that they are at least as beneficial as polyunsaturated fatty acids . |
| 20 | Dall has produced writing to the staggering scale of 250 bibles to the square inch , small enough to write one bible on a pinhead , but the individual letters on that scale are so minute , no higher than a micrometre ( one or two wavelengths of visible light ) , that they are at the limit of resolution of optical microscopes . |
| 21 | When the snake 's mouth is shut they lie flat , but when the jaws are opened wide to strike , the two upper teeth that supply the venom are pivoted down through about go degrees , so that they are at right angles to the top of the head . |
| 22 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 23 | There are those who claim that canvassing the votes of the electorate is a waste of time : that they are at least as likely to vote for you if you leave them alone as they are if you go round and bother them at night . |
| 24 | If the second person says that his cards are in the first and last row you know that they are at the t in mutus and the t in dedit . |
| 25 | Lie flat , bend the knees then straighten the legs upwards so that they are at right angles to your body . |
| 26 | There is a coffee bar here and women selling embroidery and woollens line the path to the viewpoint — for all that they are at a good tourist point , the prices here and at other such places around the island usually remain reasonable . |
| 27 | Current research assumes that crime and justice do not exist in a social vacuum , that they are at least partially political creations , and that they are inextricably involved in society . |
| 28 | After adjustment for inflation , it means that they are at their lowest since the war . |
| 29 | While it is not possible to demonstrate that any of the Continental braids are of Anglo-Saxon , even Kentish , manufacture , the very close similarity between some examples on each side of the Channel makes it possible that they are at least from the same source . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that they are at the most 6 in ( 15 cm ) long , they can make leaps of up to 6 ft ( 1.8 m ) . |