Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Both the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister have made clear that we in Britain reject the idea of a federal superstate .
2 In 1981 , for example , Professor William Baxter , in Accounting Standards — Boon or Curse ? ( in Accounting and Business Research ) , made it clear that he at least did not consider that uniform measurement rules were a boon .
3 And that is why we are now taking this direct route of saying , that policy and resources , as the policy making body of this council , should have some input to make sure that we in the planning committee are not the situation on a planning application when instead we deal with the moral issue of turning away people who need homes .
4 Councillor Bookbinder was his opponent at the last election , if I am not mistaken , and I am sure that he at least doubled my hon. Friend 's majority .
5 The Creed is the ‘ Blue Print ’ of all that we as Catholics believe and try to live .
6 While ( 9 ) does imply that he actually swam across the lake on several occasions , all that it in fact expresses is the past existence of the ability to swim , so that swimming is thought of as a potential event and not as an actualization .
7 The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out .
8 Indeed , it is not unlikely that he at some point faced armed resistance in the Fens , as the Liber Eliensis mentions a siege of Ely .
9 The work being too demanding and impossible for them to cope with or so undemanding that they under achieve becoming bored or disaffected .
10 I was pleased that he at once took to the idea .
11 Choose the five that you as a group think are the most important .
12 You are charged with an offence which is contrary to section six of the Road Traffic Act of nineteen seventy two that you at Worley on the ninth of September drove a motor vehicle on the A six seven one Worley by- pass having consumed alcohol in such a quantity that the proportion of it in your breath exceeded the prescribed limit .
13 So I thought it was nice that we in the Women 's Guild declared Women 's Lib this year and held our own .
14 It was in the spring of 1944 that we in Fontanellato began to feel what war was all about .
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