Example sentences of "[adj] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Labour joined with the Conservatives in May 1940 to fight the Second World War , under Churchill 's leadership , it is clear that despite the almost obsessive concern of the public about the threat of European fascism it was only the Labour Party , slow and cumbersome in its rate of change , which actually squared up to the necessity of facing fascism with military sanctions if necessary . |
| 2 | Another typical resistance is met when it becomes clear that despite everything that is being achieved in terms of family understanding and awareness , individuals are sticking rigidly to old patterns of interaction and behaviour . |
| 3 | For it is quite clear that despite innovative legislation , the proliferation of enforcement agencies , the relatively new use of imprisonment for corporate offenders , and absolutely ( but not relatively ) large fines for offending corporations , there has not been a substantial brake on corporate crime . |
| 4 | But in a few more months , Joyce wrote his apologia and made it clear that despite their apparent freedom of choice , there was in reality only one decision that he could have taken : |
| 5 | It is now all too clear that despite US occupation of Southern Korea the Russians have intended to impose a united front policy throughout the country … |
| 6 | It is clear that despite the package of protective designations and institutions created since 1945 , there has been a net decline in the quality of the Welsh countryside and the wider environment for the reasons given . |
| 7 | It is clear that despite the continuing success and positive feedback from the Programme the difficulties of organisation hinder a much better sharing between the Regions . |
| 8 | However it began to be clear that despite our good possession we were short on attacks . |
| 9 | Yet it is clear that despite this apparent failure of cooperation , we try to interpret B's utterance as nevertheless cooperative at some deeper ( non-superficial ) level . |
| 10 | And he made clear that despite the government 's small majority , they would be prepared to take difficult decisions about how to reduce the enormous government deficit . |
| 11 | It is clear that during the past twenty years developmental psychologists have come to the edge of a vast array of structural processes in the development of the mind , and an exciting era of experimental research has begun . |
| 12 | " Ladies and gentlemen , the fact that cholera is conveyed in the atmosphere is amply supported by the epidemic in Newcastle in 1853 when it became clear that during the months of September and October an invisible cholera cloud was suspended over the town . |
| 13 | It is clear that during a certain stage in the child 's development , artefacts become its principal means of articulating feelings and desires . |
| 14 | A letter sent to shareholders by the club 's legal adviser , Gordon Marshall , makes it clear that during the action a number of concessions had been obtained from the Deans family . |
| 15 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 16 | The writ was never served , but it was perfectly clear that without aggressive and persistent action by our solicitors the Department would have continued to stall indefinitely . |
| 17 | Recently , from a series of parliamentary questions that I tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland , it became clear that since his appointment he had not even bothered to contact the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent fuel at Dounreay . |
| 18 | It is clear that over the 1980s , our investment record has run well ahead of that of the rest of the Group of Seven . |
| 19 | It is clear that over the past year everyone in has worked extremely hard and for long hours . |
| 20 | It will be clear that on any particular occasion of meaning negotiation the more familiar the schematic content or mode of communication , the less reliance needs to be placed on systemic knowledge , and vice versa . |
| 21 | No censorship would take place beforehand , but it was made quite clear that on these issues the press was expected to censor itself , to know what ought not to be reported . |
| 22 | But , more important , it is clear that on the most important matter of clerical celibacy , there was no body of support to justify Anselm 's optimism about a rapid victory . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ . |
| 24 | It is clear that on the Conservative side , before defeat in the 1964 General Election , Edward Boyle was attracted to a binary solution and in March of that year put a paper on it to a Cabinet committee . |
| 25 | Indeed , since this trauma was the origin of all later stages of cultural evolution for the race as a whole and is now the culminating phase of childhood development , it is clear that on this phase more than any other the whole mental health and normality not only of the individual , but of the society , depends . |
| 26 | It is clear that at a meeting on July 4 between Lord Young and BAe , discussions included various tax benefits for Rover , to be achieved through the removal of the ring fence on tax losses and sympathetic revenue treatment . |
| 27 | He made it clear that at that point a judgement would be taken as to whether the draft treaty was acceptable or not . |
| 28 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |
| 29 | With hindsight , it is clear that at the time we did not fully grasp the real significance of the workers ' position . |
| 30 | It seems clear that at certain times some political and social regimes are more ‘ repressive ’ , both ideologically and physically ( as in the case of Nazi Germany ) than others . |