Example sentences of "[adj] that on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , since this trauma was the origin of all later stages of cultural evolution for the race as a whole and is now the culminating phase of childhood development , it is clear that on this phase more than any other the whole mental health and normality not only of the individual , but of the society , depends . |
| 2 | No censorship would take place beforehand , but it was made quite clear that on these issues the press was expected to censor itself , to know what ought not to be reported . |
| 3 | It will be clear that on any particular occasion of meaning negotiation the more familiar the schematic content or mode of communication , the less reliance needs to be placed on systemic knowledge , and vice versa . |
| 4 | Yet it is intriguing that on that day , he cut between Mary in the redoubt of her fells , puzzling over this ominous invasion of her feelings , and John-Augustus on the lake , drawing up char from the deep and cold lake , re-experiencing the failed innocence of his life . |
| 5 | Ontological existents are a sub-species of possible topics of discourse , and any topic of discourse , qua topic of discourse , is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " ; with " A " being a descriptive expression of some sort . |
| 6 | That a topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as the same is an analytic proposition setting out part of what " topic of discourse " means . |
| 7 | Obviously to say that an ontological existent qua possible topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " is not to say a great deal unless a clarification is given of the distinction and the relationship between these two kinds of sameness . |
| 8 | It is not impossible that on Cuthred 's death in 755 Aethelbald supported Cynewulf against Sigeberht in the ensuing struggle for the West Saxon kingship . |
| 9 | It is not impossible that on this sea voyage he was accompanied by Panaetius , who , according to a very fragmentary and dubious passage of the index Stoicorum , apparently travelled by sea with Scipio at about this time ( col. 56 , ed . |
| 10 | The puzzle is , where along this chain does it get fixed that on this occasion the answer comes out " here " ? |
| 11 | The reality of this breakdown in relations is confirmed by letters written by Alcuin in 790 in which he reported a quarrel between Charlemagne and Offa so serious that on both sides traders were forbidden to sail . |
| 12 | But it is noticeable that on all three occasions when human beings are brought on the scene , they are introduced by indefinite noun phrases : " a woman " ( 3 ) , " miners " ( I 2 ) , and " a woman ( 19 ) . |
| 13 | I did not regard Harold Wilson as a wit , nor was his conversation particularly spiced with humour , but it was immensely interesting because he would talk to me about his problems and their supposed solutions , and seemingly consult me on the matter — he was a very polite man — although I was conscious that on most political issues my own opinion was pretty well valueless and he recognised that . |
| 14 | But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office . |
| 15 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 16 | but er I do n't know if you can get this information to er to your fellow students but it really concerns the graduation rehearsal which takes place on er Friday erm on Friday we 're going out er as a group on Friday afternoon at one fifteen to Church House er to run through the rehearsal procedure er the graduation it 's important that on that day that you bring along your robes bring your robes with you and bring your , bring them along , they should be pressed so that you can er wear them er the you should also please |
| 17 | The Government of Burma continue to disregard all pressure put upon them , but I am pleased that on 30 November the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Burma , in which we were co-sponsors , which called for an improvement in the human rights situation and for progress towards democratic government . |
| 18 | Walden was so small that on one occasion , entering the players ' quarters behind his team-mates on arrival at an away game , he was told , ‘ Go away , sonny , ’ by an official . |
| 19 | Mr McNally : ‘ Is it correct that on each and every interview he denied the two charges ? ’ |
| 20 | It is plausible that on one level this new démarche was directed at Indian reservations about Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the intensified tensions which ensued in the Indian Ocean . |
| 21 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 22 | You 're aware that on this side of the room Ryedale have stated in terms in their proof that they do not perceive this land as being part of the open countryside . |
| 23 | I would like to have told them both that on that occasion the crack had sailed over my head . |
| 24 | The guard at Euston was positive that on that particular day he had locked the door of the compartment and that there was only one gentleman inside when the train left the station . |
| 25 | It is true that on one occasion , when asked if Gandhi had not been tiresome , he replied that ‘ Some people found Our Lord very tiresome ’ ; but in the context of general unsympathy it is difficult to know what to make of this very Irwinian rebuke . |
| 26 | It is true that on first arriving at the scene of the crime the detective may have no pre-conceived ideas . |
| 27 | It is true that on other parts of the A fifty nine system , particularly through Knaresborough , er the new road the outer northern bypass could take closer to thirty percent off the existing A fifty nine , but the traffic flows on that part of the A fifty nine are very much lower , so there is much less need , much less environmental need for a bypass there er a relief road I should say , there in the first place . |