Example sentences of "[noun] that [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shares , priced at FFr72 ( 707p ) yesterday , represent a risky investment that even on the company 's own projections will not give a decent return for another 10 years . |
| 2 | And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort . |
| 3 | It is a neat irony that only by studying the largest structures in the Universe can we get an insight into the smallest structure of matter . |
| 4 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |
| 5 | Now this is people 's traditional expectation and they still have it , whereas we 're of the mind that instead of this er you 've very cleverly got in this circle and the last day that I suddenly realized that we 're all equal and moving around in a reasonably organized manner but still we 're rather loose , whereas the traditional view is a parish councillor says it and everybody does the rest , with a few er renegades and revolutionaries at varying parts in your parish . |
| 6 | The uncertainty that up to now has surrounded Norsk Data 's business is by this clarified , ’ the company declared . |
| 7 | Jeremias has shown in The Central Message of the New Testament that nowhere in pre-Christian literature does anyone dare to call God by this intimate , family word which could better be translated as ‘ Daddy ’ or ‘ Dear Father ’ . |
| 8 | Joseph Bédier , the French scholar whose book published exactly a hundred years ago proved to be the inception of modern fabliau studies , inferred from the number of known authors and the number of anonymous fabliaux that only about one-eighth of the original corpus survives . |
| 9 | So it promises to bridge the gap that still in fact exists in many if not most organizations between what happens at the local and individual level and what 's happening at the corporate level . |
| 10 | Firms in the defence support field have been briefed by the Ministry of Defence that up to £1.2 billion of contracts for jobs currently run by the armed forces will be offered to civilian firms from April . |
| 11 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 12 | Indeed , it was found as a fact in the case that out of 36,000 petrol stations in the United Kingdom nearly 35,000 were subject to solus agreements . |
| 13 | ‘ There was simply a hope that somehow in the future things would get better because of this enormous expenditure . ’ |
| 14 | They all had the hope that out of their sacrifices a greater England would be born . |
| 15 | First , that the change in the government of a particular country erm can never work that much change that quickly in its policies and relations with its neighbours because they are determined by its economy , by its history , by its geography and so on . |
| 16 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 17 | FoE 's role is to persuade politicians and decision makers at every level that only by protecting the Earth can we protect ourselves — against pollution and the destruction of our urban and rural environment . |
| 18 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |
| 19 | I think they demonstrated by their presence that here at least , there is no plank in the mind ; that a business man 's business today includes these ideological facts , includes dealing with what is in the hearts and minds of men . |
| 20 | There were those who swore that Kitchen had so perfected his technique that midway through his sliding tackle he could swerve around obstacles , like team-mates , who got in the way . |
| 21 | It was she who one day , in the rectory or the garden , might penetrate the shell that out of necessity had grown . |
| 22 | The umbrella-type hand-brake that just from under the dashboard is something else , however . |
| 23 | It was noted by the central committee that ahead of the congress there had been " broad and free " debate on the draft platform published in February [ see pp. 37234-35 ] which had shown " the multifaceted nature of views and positions existing in the party and in society " . |
| 24 | We informed the committee that regardless to the fact that they were trustees , they were in no position to challenge Mr Maxwell and under those conditions then they felt that the the law should be changed that the Trust Law was n't sufficient to er look after pensions , because they felt that in certain circumstances in fact gave evidence to the committee , various people gave evidence along those lines , that they were almost powerless against Mr Maxwell and that 's . |
| 25 | ‘ No I didn — Oh ! ’ she exclaimed with a laugh that even to herself sounded slightly false . |
| 26 | Well I suppose you know once you 've got a machine that effectively like a big dot r dot matrix I would 've you could er you could do it with with something like a , a desk top printer er |
| 27 | It 's now quite sterile yet still manages to be immensely variable — to such a degree that even in the 18th century , gardeners thought all crocuses might simply be variants of it . |
| 28 | If you can find a stake that long at the garden centre , it will probably be painted green , with perhaps a black painted end for the ground — do n't be deceived . |
| 29 | The English Vice-Governor of the Galapagos told Darwin that even within the archipelago , there was variety : the tortoises on each island were slightly different , so that it was possible to tell which island they came from . |
| 30 | On the basis that even before Pepper v. Hart a wider range of parliamentary material might be judicially considered to determine the mischief , presumably the same range of material may , if it is necessary , be admitted as contextual parliamentary material . |