Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] that [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons that no-one can yet explain , teetotal Leslie 's Rolls-Royce careered off the M5 motorway , mounted an embankment and flipped onto its roof . |
| 2 | Always be on the look out for signs that something might be wrong , especially when the weather is cold . |
| 3 | These vowel changes are brought about by rules — not the sort of rules that one might teach to language learners , but more like the instructions that one might build into a machine or write into a computer program . |
| 4 | This approach seems likely to leave a ‘ grey area ’ of flows that one might or might not choose to call turbulent . |
| 5 | For example the number of times that one or other proton has a and the other then has A would be a number that I shall call unc Numbers unc are similarly defined . |
| 6 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 7 | Occasionally , when there had to be a drastic reassessment of public expenditure , it became evident from the leaks and rumours of resignations that something important was going on in Whitehall during the summer months , but neither backbenchers nor the House in general were able to find out what was happening or to discuss the changes being made in expenditure plans . |
| 8 | Six towns of different sizes were selected for the research , representing different regions , different traffic situations and thus together representing the diversity of problems that one would expect to find across the country . |
| 9 | Another point which is not always recognised is that covert research can itself impose severe restrictions on the kinds of questions that one may legitimately ask and the sorts of people to whom one may have access . |
| 10 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 11 | … the everyday sort of things , finding one 's way in the dark , using a compass , picking a lock , making up one 's mind quickly , the sort of things that one wants if one 's in a hurry or a tight corner . |
| 12 | Tomorrow the Transport Secretary John MacGregor reintroduces the bill to privatize British Rail to the House of Commons , it had a rough journey through the House of Lords and until late last week it looked set for a stormy passage through the Commons too , but then Mr MacGregor introduced a series of amendments that everyone assumes will satisfy the rebellious Tory MP s , but as Michael Gold reports , there are still obstacles for Mr MacGregor to surmount . |
| 13 | Of course there is a wide variety of sayings that one could choose , as well as such traditional styles as alphabets , or one 's name and the date on which the sampler was completed . |
| 14 | Culture defines status , and fro women and men in many societies achievement or retention of status depends upon the number of children that one has ; for the women , having many children may be the only means of acquiring status within the family and the community . |
| 15 | Initially , an entry in a reading lexicon which matches the sequence of letters that one has detected is located . |
| 16 | And yet it was when he went on to talk of systems that one felt that he was offering something innovative and new to modern day tennis thinking . |
| 17 | Andy Peart risks rectal ructions to find out that it 's only genial John Peel , ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio with a million of records that none of us have ever heard of … |
| 18 | Andy Peart risks rectal ructions to find out that it 's only genial John Peel , ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio with a million of records that none of us have ever heard of … |
| 19 | In Weber 's terms , office legitimizes power in the sense of the decisions affecting and determining the behaviour of others that one is entitled to take by virtue of occupying an official position with a designated jurisdiction . |
| 20 | This was before it happened or when it happened ? you did n't have sort of intimations that something was going to happen ? |
| 21 | If you want to en try and ensure that you 're going to have a self sustained community , one hundred percent , you make sure that presumably you 've got a show case cinema with fifteen screens there , er a B and Q , erm a whole range of of facilities that nobody ever needs leave , erm erm erm er that new settlement , the reality of the real world of course is that all settlements to a greater or lesser degree , er have a relationship with other er larger scale settlements , now then let's look at the new settlement , fourteen hundred dwellings , we estimate that that is going to be of the order of around three thousand three hundred people , now that is sizeable , it is not small , it is larger than a number of the small market towns er in North Yorkshire , like Boroughbridge , Settle , it is a significant development erm erm and within it erm there will be a requirement er be a requirement for a a a primary school , it justifies that . |
| 22 | There are a number of objections that one can raise to the strong anthropic principle as an explanation of the observed state of the universe . |
| 23 | It is not only in the discourse of politicians that one finds the denial of prejudice . |
| 24 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 25 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 26 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 27 | Well I 'm afraid it 's now time for me to send one of those boring sending off messages that everyone usually skips straight past . |
| 28 | When I first became a Member of the House , I learned that one should never speak about things that one does not know or does not understand . |
| 29 | In it , he imagines what would happen to London if it became so choked with cars that no-one could move . |
| 30 | You just think it looks good to be seen with books that nobody can pronounce the name of . |