Example sentences of "[conj] that [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 2 | Small wonder there is now talk in Bonn that the Social Democrats in the Bundesrat may block legislation ; that Mr Kohl , though chancellor , may be dumped by his party , as Ludwig Erhard once was ; or that his centre-right coalition with the Free Democrats will split , as the centre-left one led by Helmut Schmidt did in 1982 . |
| 3 | The records of female social workers trained in early twentieth-century Birmingham , however , showed that only 22 per cent of educated women had married and that their average age at marriage was 34 years , some nine years older than the norm . |
| 4 | ‘ While it is understandable that the media will home in on failures , it is important that the public should be reassured that such cases are very much the exception , rather than the rule , and that their continuing confidence in the profession is justified . ’ |
| 5 | Commenting on its most recent losses ( page five ) Advanced Logic Research Inc , Irvine , California said that more price competition reduced its turnover , and that its gross margin for the latest six months was just 14% compared with 22% in the year-ago period ; the impact of the reduction was partially offset by cost-cutting programmes , and its cash position improved by $5.5m to $35.1m during the latest six months while the company simultaneously cut bank debt $7m . |
| 6 | Imagine that an economy 's aggregate demand curve is AD in figure 4.4 and that its natural level of output is y n . |
| 7 | It served to stimulate further Japan 's belief that she was highly vulnerable in military terms and that her only course for survival as a strong and independent state must be the strengthening of her own military capacity . |
| 8 | Woodline Design did not rest on any past laurels ; it was highly solvent and very successful , and it did n't take long for Merrill to discover that Luke was the driving force behind it , and that her initial impression of him as dynamic was something of an understatement . |
| 9 | ‘ And I do n't know about all this ‘ probate ’ flummery , because it ai n't stopped Miss Ara and that there reverend husband of hers from taking all they want . ’ |
| 10 | Colin Campbell , to whom Lord Milton directed his inquiry about the removal of Main , insisted that the watchman could be returned to his former station , and that his temporary appointment as a tidesman was not a punishment , but a favour . |
| 11 | It is possible that a figure of the King was once part of the scene , and that his heroic intervention in the face of disaster was part of the cult iconography . |
| 12 | Others argued , however , that the man was straining political toleration too far , and that his nominal adherence to the Government was becoming absurd . |
| 13 | As you are aware we are conducting meetings and discussions with several interested parties , including foreign parties , and that my original indication of cost was based on a single interested party . |
| 14 | Given that this was formed in the late 1980s and that our estimated time for previous changes to reach the Rockall Trough was 18–19 years , we predict that the next decade will see continued cooling and freshening of the subpolar gyre as the latest form of LSW circulates around the North Atlantic . |
| 15 | How we survived remains a mystery , but when we eventually arrived at Backakeldy , we were told that the coastguard had been alerted and that our mad passage across the barriers had been watched in amazement by worried would-be rescuers . |