Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time he is encouraged to dabble in this or that to no lasting effect and the relief that such an MP feels when given an actual job , a place to go from 9 a.m. onwards with a definite task to perform , something to do which stretches his capacity more than drinking tea , gossiping and writing letters , is enormous . |
| 2 | There : people said this and that about him , but no one knew how sensitive he was , how kind . |
| 3 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 4 | Will the Minister confirm that the total cost of the Trident programme is likely to be over £23 billion , that it is a monstrous waste of money , that to hold nuclear weapons is immoral and that in the interests of world peace he should cancel the programme and provide useful work for the highly skilled people who have manufactured those awful weapons of mass destruction ? |
| 5 | But there is little doubt that charter-train profit can be read in seven-figure sums rather than six and that as a business venture , InterCity has not done badly at all . |
| 6 | However , we recognise that the church has not always been democratic and that at times we have been insensitive to violations of basic human rights even within the church . |
| 7 | of all the records of this race since 1948 and that in 1972 occurred in a severe south-westerly gale . |
| 8 | The applicant then submitted that a statutory redundancy payment was ‘ pay ’ within article 119 and that on the employer 's default to make that payment the Secretary of State guaranteed the sum under section 106 . |
| 9 | The study points out : ‘ There are uncomfortably strong reasons for supposing that industry in Britain has not adopted microelectronics to the fullest extent possible and that in consequence it is already tending to fall behind our leading competitors . ’ |
| 10 | At one extreme of the southern oscillation the pressure over Australia is low and that over the Pacific is high ; at the other extreme , as in 1982 , the situation is reversed . |
| 11 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 12 | Only one more raid was mounted in 1940 and that in July , when Lieutenant-General Alan Bourne of the Royal Marines was temporarily running Combined Operations Headquarters ( the name used throughout this book for the directorate , although in fact having some variations of title ) before Keyes 's appointment . |
| 13 | He wanted to make sure that people still enjoyed working for Scottish Amicable and that above all the strong corporate spirit of ‘ amicability ’ should prosper . |
| 14 | If we restrict our attention solely to the twentieth century , it is notable that the two most important and traumatic socialist revolutions , that in Russia in 1917 and that in Germany during the Nazi era , whilst being the creation of particular political leaders who soon imposed total state power , nevertheless drew what popular support they had from political myths that are obvious paranoid projections . |
| 15 | He ‘ hoped that the strategic assumption that it was vital to us to keep open the Mediterranean and that in fact we could , should be re-examined . |
| 16 | It is suggested that where a woman demonstrates her lack of consent , it is no hardship for a man to enquire whether her consent is present and that as a matter of policy the law should demand that he do so . |
| 17 | But it is also clear that Denning started off with a presumption that everyone involved was innocent and that at some stage he had personal doubts as to whether this was indeed so . |
| 18 | If the Government are re-elected — God forbid — is it not a fact that privatisation would come in 1992 and that in 1993 contracts for the supply of coal to the power stations would be awarded ? |
| 19 | Thus we are told , for example , that in the late 1980s there are 10,000 Latin American students enrolled in Soviet universities compared with the 144 who were attending Patrice Lumumba in 1960 ; that in 1982 Latin Americans could tune in to Soviet radio broadcasting for 105 hours per week compared with only 63 in 1962 and that at least seventeen Soviet journals are now translated and distributed in Latin America , six of which also appear in Portuguese ( Blasier : 1983 , pp. 12–13 and pp. 191–2 ; Goldhamer : 1972 , p. 147 ) . |
| 20 | Swaefheard first emerges in the circle of Oswine , witnessing Oswine 's grant to St Augustine 's in 689 and that to Abbess Aebbe in January 690 , but if he was in the second year of his reign by March 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) he must have succeeded before March 689 . |
| 21 | X went on to tell D that the information she was imparting was sensitive and highly confidential and that as a result of the conversation he would be an ‘ insider . ’ |
| 22 | This means that it would be advisable to deposit such an order in 1911 and that in turn seems to point to the desirability of making a start on the drafting process not later than 1976 or 1975 . |
| 23 | There were too many locked doors — all those leading to the street , tame excuses by the staff , brief interviews with Penumbra who claimed she was so busy and that of course Zambia could go out once she was sure SHe was well enough . |
| 24 | During the second interval Geoffrey apologised , giving the excuse that one of the battens of the hollow trees had worked itself loose and that at the last moment Bunny had required him to fix it more securely into its brace . |
| 25 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |
| 26 | Jessop argues that this is highly unlikely and that in a crisis we can not say in advance whether the state — now divorced from any one-to-one relationship with the ruling class — will assist capital , labour or ( as seems to be the perennial case in Britain ) pursue policies to the mutual ruin of the contending classes . |
| 27 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 28 | When m = n , all integrals on the right-hand side of equation ( 11.3 ) are zero except that in which the integrand is , and since it follows that for to Multiplication of equation ( 11.1 ) by followed by integration over a period T similarly gives When , all integrals on the right-hand side are zero except that in which the integrand is . |
| 29 | When m = n , all integrals on the right-hand side of equation ( 11.3 ) are zero except that in which the integrand is , and since it follows that for to Multiplication of equation ( 11.1 ) by followed by integration over a period T similarly gives When , all integrals on the right-hand side are zero except that in which the integrand is . |
| 30 | For example a second-order function , , may be defined so that the probability that the velocity at one point lies between u 1 and u 1 + du 1 and that at the other point simultaneously lies between u 2 and u 2 + du 2 is . |