Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 2 | Among the German miscalculations that on various historical occasions have seemed Heaven-sent to save the Allies , Falkenhayn 's denial of reserves to the Crown Prince reminds one of Hitler halting his Panzers before they closed in on the BEF at Dunkirk , different though the motives may have been . |
| 3 | Exploration of this basin has been greatly hindered by the presence of lower Tertiary volcanics that on seismic profiles largely obscure the underlying geology of the basin . |
| 4 | An indicator is the abundance of the rare isotope of hydrogen , deuterium D , compared to the common isotope 1 H. D is twice the mass of 1 H and therefore 1 H will normally escape faster , enhancing D/ 1 H. The D/ 1 H ratio in the Cytherean atmosphere today is about 100 times that on the Earth , indicating more 1 H on Venus in the past , though still a good deal less than on the Earth . |
| 5 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 6 | On Dec. 21 the Lao ambassador to Thailand , Khamphan Simmalavong , denied claims by rebel forces that on Dec. 13 Gen. Vang Pao , who had commanded a force of Hmong tribesmen financed by the US Central Intelligence Agency until he had fled to the USA in 1975 , had returned to Laos . |
| 7 | Population density on the Nepal side of the terai is four times that on the Indian ( Gaige 1975 ) , but the physiography and soils are similar on either side of the border . |
| 8 | Cinema box-office takings in 1991 were £300m , but consumers spent three to four times that on subscriptions to satellite or cable TV film channels or on renting videos . |
| 9 | Other regions that on the face of it may seem rather benign — including open reaches of tropical ocean — may , for long periods , be almost devoid of life . |