Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creation of a captive insurance company may enable the group to save on premiums and to cover risks that their normal insurers do not ( eg excess claims ) . |
| 2 | Mrs Martin , 38 , says doctors failed to warn her of the risks that her sterilisation operation might not work forever . |
| 3 | Revolutions toppled first the Chinese emperor in 1911 , then the tsar of Russia in 1917 ; the Great War of 1914–1918 also weakened the European powers drastically and at the same time showed the colonized peoples that their seemingly invincible white masters were capable of enormous self-destructive folly . |
| 4 | Seymour Clarke , General Manager of the Great Northern Railway , told the 1869 Parliamentary Select Committee on the transit of animals that his company sent meat from almost all the 197 stations on its lines . |
| 5 | Apes may well have produced new two-sign combinations that their trainers have been inclined to interpret as appropriately invented for some feature in the context . |
| 6 | The economy of the villa had undergone so many transformations over the centuries that its nature and workings were subject to every kind of variation . |
| 7 | Rather , as was pointed out in Makanjuola v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis , it is intended to reassure informants that their statements will only be used for the investigation of complaints and for such criminal or disciplinary proceedings as directly follow . |
| 8 | If both deposits and loans are non-indexed , the losses that the banks make on their loans are compensated by the losses that their depositors make on their deposits . |
| 9 | I have performed all the offices that my calling requires , whatever the discomfort . |
| 10 | Make as full a list as possible of what kinds of answer would be possible ( to your main question and also to your other questions ) , so that you can at least consider candidates that your essay may then reject . |
| 11 | He could see in Mariana 's eyes that her thoughts mirrored his own . |
| 12 | How could I tell Fatima with her large , trusting brown eyes that her war had become stale news and I had to move on ? |
| 13 | As she looked up at him she saw such tenderness , such deep love in his eyes that her own filled with tears . |
| 14 | And there was such a look of stark relief in his eyes that his beloved cousin was safe , after all , that , just for a moment , to hide her own pain , Ronni had to drop her gaze away . |
| 15 | Physically , I mean , " he added , with such soft , sweet-tooth hooding of the eyes that my stride faltered and I said , |
| 16 | Manager Intikhab earned a severe reprimand for to journalists that his players had been ‘ insulted ’ by umpire Palmer 's handling of the sweater . |
| 17 | Quitting the ERM permanently will have one important psychological effect : it will remind Britain 's traders that their destiny is to sell where their market is strongest . |
| 18 | Yesterday , it emerged that members of his union and the National Union of Civil and Public Servants who work in the government 's Business Statistics Office in Newport , Gwent , expressed worries that their work could be ‘ prostituted ’ and ‘ manipulated ’ by politicians after the CSO was moved from the control of the Cabinet Office to the Treasury . |
| 19 | He set a course for Omsk and cut in the automatic pilot , settling back to cope with the chain of niggling worries that his blunder had triggered off . |
| 20 | It refers not only to a present which is constantly breaking down to form reveal the fragments of the past , but a view of our surroundings which may seem whole and contiguous , but which in fact is forever splintering and reshaping itself as our minds piece together the fragments that our eyes actually perceive . |
| 21 | Rival troupes gave so many imitations that its inventor was forgotten . |
| 22 | The meeting was chaired by Betty Sinclair , who reminded the supporters that their objective was to demonstrate for civil rights , for jobs and for houses : ‘ We are asking you to listen to the speakers , and what we have done today will go down in history and in this way we will be more effective in showing the world that we are a peaceful people asking for our civil rights in an orderly manner . ' |
| 23 | I have to say to the IRA and its supporters that their actions only strengthen the determination of all democrats in Britain and Ireland to reject them . |
| 24 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 25 | He was quoted in West Africa on Aug. 16 as warning newly formed political parties that their activities were still illegal . |
| 26 | By the end of the hearing before us it was agreed between the parties that our interpretation of the language of the Act of 1873 in the particular context of the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors would be determinative of the matter . |
| 27 | They get it into their heads that their fund-raising dinner for Hypothermic Pensioners In High Rise Blocks In Portsmouth will fall apart at the seams if Dillie Keane is n't there . |
| 28 | Ultimately , if a journal editor is to be a gatekeeper of scientific knowledge , procedures must be in place to assure both readers and authors that their work is to be taken seriously . |
| 29 | The Nationalist offensive against Madrid deployed the same tactics that its africanista commanders were accustomed to using against tribesmen in the Moroccan Rif : a series of columns attacking simultaneously at different points along an extensive front . |
| 30 | And because all this money was not needed for war , it was available , and extensively used , to show its subjects that their monarchy lived in style and elegance . |