Example sentences of "[verb] that something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs of a non-Europe research programme suggest that something in the region of 0.5 per cent of Community GDP may be " wasted " by nations favouring domestic public procurement policies and therefore an effective competition policy to counteract such protection measures must be accompanied by a re-distributive regional policy . |
| 2 | The Collector knew it was time he hurried downstairs … he had expected that something like this would happen , but not so quickly . |
| 3 | It is considered that something in the region of 40g daily should be quite sufficient to protect your health in all the ways which have been described , and to make it much easier for you to control your weight in the future . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you think that something like this might be the answer for Jennifer — and for your parents ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps she realised that something like that would make it easier for her to be found . ’ |
| 6 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 7 | I should have guessed that something like this was going on . |
| 8 | How could he explain that something inside him , experience , foreboding , sick terror , told him this might be necessary ? |
| 9 | He would have to be blind not to have noticed that something in Cora-Beth 's manner towards him had changed ; that the looks she sometimes gave him were no longer open and friendly but questioning , as if she expected , or was hoping for , something more . |
| 10 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 11 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 12 | Being together even wrought a curious change in their characters ; Oldfield noticed that something of his diffidence seemed to have rubbed off on Branson . |
| 13 | But this record shows that something like 30,340 imperial shillings were expected in revenue : 3300 from the Patrimony , 5800 from religious institutions , and 21,200 , the lion 's share , from states and vassals . |
| 14 | You would see that something like thirty percent of our work is at Leeds North West electrification . |
| 15 | We anticipate that something over an extra 50,000 will now do so . |
| 16 | The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods . |
| 17 | Well our research has shown that something like eighty percent of all small business 's do n't undertake any formal training within their first three years of operation and more than sixty percent do not do any formal business planning or look further ahead than one month from today . |
| 18 | I talked recently to one in the Highland area who reckons that something like 80% of the people on his list are now over retirement age . |
| 19 | And they , knowing me to be one not prone to exaggerated statements , well understood that something of an extraordinary nature was impending . |
| 20 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 21 | The evaluators must conclude that something like the input of resources which characterised the Essex project is a necessary condition for improving library provision and associated resources ( Objective 3 ) and to facilitate reforms in pedagogy , but that it is by no means a sufficient condition for significant change . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're saying that something about me niggles at you ? ’ |
| 23 | We must fight for greater tolerance , and for legislation that protects against anti-gay discrimination , to ensure that something like Section 28 will never be brought into the rest of Europe . |
| 24 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , many people find it hard to believe that something like the eye , Paley 's favourite example , so complex and well designed , with so many interlocking working parts , could have arisen from small beginnings by a gradual series of step-by-step changes . |
| 25 | How would it be proved that something against the rules of war had occurred ? |
| 26 | Now he knew that something in her life had caused her great pain and , even though he could n't possibly have any idea what it had been , still she was racked by his knowing even that much about her . |
| 27 | Sensing that something of the sort might be going through his mind , Lesley-Jane interposed , ‘ We were just talking about Micky 's death . ’ |
| 28 | The ocean carrier , therefore , was deemed to warrant to the consignor safe transport and delivery and could avoid liability only if he proved that something in the nature of force majeure had intervened . |
| 29 | Any variation greater than this indicates that something in a process has changed . |
| 30 | Any variation greater than this indicates that something in a process has changed . |