Example sentences of "and that the " in BNC.

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1 He knew and practised all the rules of art , and from a composition of Raphael , Carracci , and Guido , made up a style , of which the only fault was , that it has no manifest defects and no striking beauties ; and that the principles of his composition are never blended together , so as to form one uniform body original in its kind , or excellent in any view .
2 Enthusiasts for explanation , however , might want to explain that this ‘ darkness visible ’ tends to obscure and diminish what deserves to be understood , and that , for him , there are important countries and unimportant countries , and that the coups and riots of the latter are severely diminishable .
3 But it does not take long to decide that the experiment is being conducted with skill , and that the pursuits have at least a little in common .
4 In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic .
5 In The Unbearable Lightness of Being , the Czech exile Sabina disturbs her French friends by being unable to last out a parade held to protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 : ‘ She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism , Fascism , behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic , pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison . ’
6 ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny .
7 At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious .
8 The man upstairs , the first husband whom Maria is to leave , is not ‘ self-aware ’ — unlike Zuckerman , who declares , on behalf of the self-aware , that he has no self and that the self is a joke .
9 It is possible , though , that in the early stages of training you may feel that all your creative skill is being stripped from you , and that the whole system is ganging up on you .
10 It is clear that in the past many of them have considered loyalty to be a two-way process , a contract or covenant , and that the state could be a traitorous party as well as the people .
11 It was argued that the pattern in other countries was that laws permitting divorce followed social trends in the numbers of marriage breakdowns rather than vice versa and that the fears of societal breakdown promoted by opponents in Ireland were unfounded in fact .
12 But in justice I think a society needs civil divorce and that the real concern of the Church and the community should be to work at understanding prevention .
13 This , therefore , demands that the purchaser and supplier of a system must be capable of working in partnership , and that the supplier has specialist skills in all areas of implementation of systems to assist the customer over this hurdle , ’ Mobbs says .
14 Before storing apples and pears , check that the store is free from mice and that the trays are thoroughly clean .
15 I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully .
16 After doing this several times in a two-seater during training , the student may find both that applying full opposite rudder will stop the spin and that the glider does not in fact re-stall again even if the stick is kept back .
17 Our hair became longer and — in police terms — almost verged on the wild , confirming Hallpike , ( 1969 : 260 ) , who argued : ‘ the hypothesis I wish to advance in this article [ is ] that long hair is associated with being outside society and that the cutting of hair symbolizes re-entering society , or living under a particularly disciplinary regime within society … .
18 ‘ Now , Trevor , ’ Derek Carlisle confronted his colleague , ‘ we know that the President of the World faced a demand for higher salaries from our research workers ; that unless he came up with some incentive we would lose the best of those workers ; and that the increased contribution towards marioc manufacture would compete directly for Exchequer funds .
19 How about a more modest version of the argument which says that only certain ‘ primitive ’ concepts are innate ( about three-dimensionality , causal relations , etcetera ) , and that the more sophisticated concepts develop out of these through the time-honoured processes of differentiating finer concepts from global ones and integrating the results into complex , structured concepts .
20 Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance .
21 I shall argue that this framework is explanatorily inadequate and that the inadequacy is inherited by theories developed within it .
22 Yet some writers seem to think that the laws do just that ; and that the quantitative observations encompassed in the laws take us beyond ( subjective ) experience because they are based upon objective measures of physical energy , utilizing scientific instruments .
23 I 'd been amazed that in London you could buy ready-made couscous in packets , and that the English used it in their cooking .
24 We carry on with the gin , nobody paying any attention to my sentimental reminiscences , contradictory and literary as they are and unable to express my conflicting desire that England be an island in a timewarp and that the English behaved like Continentals .
25 The Committee recommends that the NHS Management Executive should ensure that all English Regional Health Authorities set broad standards for waiting times for such appointments , and that the Management Executive should require District Health Authorities and Family Health Services Authorities to take urgent action to reduce waiting times for first appointments .
26 Age Concern believes that GPs should be encouraged to make rational , efficient , effective and economic use of resources in relation to prescribing , and that the use of drugs for elderly people should be closely monitored .
27 Age Concern believes that this issue needs urgent consideration in the context of the NHS Review , and that the statutory responsibilities of health authorities in this respect should be clarified .
28 There will be one group within the BMC and climbing that will say it was n't really a competition and that the rule was invented for television spectaculars .
29 Before leaving Britain we 'd learnt that the hike up to Mount Kenya 's ‘ walkers summit ’ , Point Lenana , was not too demanding , and that the climbing route up to the twin summits of Batian and Nelion was graded mainly Diff , with a few patches of Severe , so we were n't expecting any technical problems .
30 It is important that at least three coats are applied and that the top and bottom edges are given at least one coat to prevent moisture being absorbed .
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