Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 So one may take it that everyone receives at least a smattering ; and more flexible A-level and university courses make it possible for people to combine more advanced science with arts subjects in a way that was virtually impossible in my day .
2 Marc was moving through the gears with a touch like velvet , his control so sure , so sensual that she understood at once the pleasure he gained from driving .
3 Let us suppose that you have at least a hazy image of your Dreams — your personal and global visions of how life might be .
4 It , you , you used to meet a lot of different kinds of people and er not only that you travelled about quite a bit as well .
5 Although this second method is the more complicated to administer and requires that we have at least a rough idea of the size of the primary sampling units , it has some advantages that become obvious when we recall that several primaries are generally sampled :
6 I do not claim any more for these criteria than that they raise at least the possibility of a belief being affirmable .
7 Before a module is accepted by LIFESPAN , its header is checked to ensure that all its constituent keywords are present and that they contain at least the minimum amount of information required .
8 Only slowly did the various industries realise that they had to better the ‘ lot ’ of their workers and reduce the occupational risk .
9 Refrigerated display cabinets are micro-processor controlled to ensure that they run at exactly the correct temperature — cold enough to preserve food properly , not so cold that they waste energy .
10 So we find , by the end of the fourteenth century , that persons are directing petitions to the Chancellor , claiming that they have at least a moral right to the benefit of these uses , and begging him to give them help against the legal owner who is setting up his Common Law rights against them .
11 To say that the Crown had the right of appointment is to say only that it had at least the possibility of a voice , not that it necessarily exercised any real right of selection .
12 What is more , careful examination of its proportions has revealed that it belonged to precisely the same species of cat that was later domesticated in Egypt .
13 Russell estimated the population of England at just over 21 million in 1377 , and suggested that it rose by nearly a million between then and 1545 .
14 This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI .
15 A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League .
16 His blue eyes flayed her , as he demanded harshly , ‘ Do you deny that he died with barely a penny to his name ? ’
17 But as regards his goods and chattels , which include his leaseholds , it is early admitted that he has at least a limited power to dispose by will — limited because his wife and children may have rights which he can not override .
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