Example sentences of "[verb] that [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson , never under an obligation to generate social ease , dismissed that by saying ‘ The intimacy is such as one of the professors here may have with one of the carpenters who is repairing the college , ’ Johnson 's point being that the printer , having printed some of Warburton 's works , might perhaps have bought the copyright in one or two of them . |
| 2 | Hick made a break through into this problem as he proposed that in making choice reactions , subjects gain information at a constant rate . |
| 3 | Those who are working and hoping , however feebly , to encompass the lives of boys and girls with wholesome atmosphere must know that in regard to sexuality two factors stand out . |
| 4 | How do I know that in choosing Direct Line I wo n't get into the same trouble ? ’ |
| 5 | Yes , before you all write in , I do know that by pressing the yellow button on the machine I will be told when I need to knit with the main carriage , but ( hand on heart ) how many of you have got carried away and done one too many strokes with the lace carriage ? |
| 6 | These orders do not contain a blanket exemption for agreements that come within their terms but provide that in deciding whether or not an agreement is registrable no account shall be taken of any restriction : which limits the extent to which the person accepting the restriction may compete with the acquired enterprise , or may be engaged or interested in , disclose information to , or otherwise assist any business which so competes , provided that the restriction subsists for no longer than the permitted period . |
| 7 | In an elegant series of experiments Conrad ( 1964 ) demonstrated that in transposing visually presented data the errors are more likely to be in numbers or letters of similar sound rather than those which are of similar appearance . |
| 8 | Her picture of God ( which came from experiences in the past ) was so distorted that without realizing it she was believing a grotesque caricature of God which for sanity 's sake she was forced at the same time to doubt . |
| 9 | Is the answer not to keep such breeds of dogs , or to accept that in doing so there is going to be a consequence of damage to the environment , albeit localised and perhaps , in terms of our global worries , extremely small ? |
| 10 | The court refused to accept that by petitioning for divorce she had revoked her consent . |
| 11 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 12 | The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six . |
| 13 | If this is the case , the European Court held that it must permit the applicant to establish that since obtaining his/her qualifications , he/she had gained further knowledge and qualifications to bring him/her up to the necessary standard . |
| 14 | It was claimed that in developing an aggressive new foreign policy , he was disregarding nationalist dreams of recovering control of the mainland . |
| 15 | It is claimed that by having sharply separated black and white regions of the skin , rotary breezes will be created between the black and white zones and that these will have a cooling effect . |
| 16 | Although SSAP 2 was said to have been applicable , the important caveat was added that in accounting to the Government for the purpose of producing the appropriation accounts , the accounting was on the cash basis . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend realise that in dealing with things that we hold so dear we want to make sure that the European Community gives us a good bargain and that what we give to it will be given back to us ? |
| 18 | I realise that before making any commitment you 'll want to take advice , but perhaps you could let me have your initial response ? ’ |
| 19 | They admit it 's expensive , but say that by sharing the aircraft between them it should provide value for money . |
| 20 | They say that by following basic advice illnesses , such as sore throats and diarrhoea , can be avoided . |
| 21 | Eternity — something like that , you know ? , in some way , it 's a tale that in , the , that embraces those er thoughts that so many people are thinking these days , and yet I 'm an old fashioned fellow , erm and I say that by saying er yes , this , this is some , somewhat of a er new age category , all these things . |
| 22 | However , he mentioned that after referring to Re Bennett [ 1896 ] 1 Ch 778 the expenses of a term life assurance policy as well as a whole life insurance policy on the settlor 's life would prima facie be capital rather than income . |
| 23 | In his biography of Molla " Abd al-Fattah ( Abdulfettah : d. 984/1577 ) , Mank Ali writes that after holding the medrese of Ata Bey in Kastamonu with a daily salary of 40 akce , he was appointed to the in Ankara with 50 akce . |
| 24 | Fig. 1 illustrates that by linking such splines at a common point and opposite tangent directions , an indefinite length of smooth curve can be defined with relatively little data . |
| 25 | He would not be surprised to find that by using his intelligence he could add one or two significant improvements to this design . |
| 26 | The ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation , which will care for physically and mentally handicapped people in Atea , expect to find that by owning their own tractor they will not only go a long way to becoming self-sufficient but will be able to hire out the tractor locally to enhance their income . |
| 27 | Yet a year ago , the Monopolies Commission , following a somewhat sceptical report by the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy , found that despite operating efficiency in general , the board 's investment appraisals were seriously defective , liable to mislead , and operated against the public interest . |
| 28 | But , bit by bit , Haringey found that in setting 1989-90 's rate , it had rather more than the year 's expenditure to cover . |
| 29 | Kodak found that by flattening the grain into tabular or T-shape , the same amount of silver intercepts more light . |
| 30 | Also , he found that by glancing occasionally at William 's medieval illustrations he was able to prolong the actual phallic performance to well over half an hour , a personal best , even deducting the time taken to eat the cakes . |