Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big oddity is why pay remains low for skills that an industry needs but can not find . |
| 2 | BNL last made headlines in 1989 , after revelations that an American branch of the bank , in Atlanta , Georgia , had extended unauthorised trade credits to Iraq worth some $3 billion . |
| 3 | A disciplinary inquiry has also been launched after allegations that a senior civil servant and leading member of a management buy-out for the furnishing business accepted an invitation to attend the British Open golf championship from one of the main companies which benefited from the deal . |
| 4 | Earlier in the month , security was stepped up at border crossings , department stores , railway stations and airports after reports that a terrorist commando was planning raids from a base in Spain . |
| 5 | Companies with substantial interests in Hong Kong enjoyed modest rises after reports that a breakthrough on political reform for the colony might soon be reached with China . |
| 6 | And he said he had ordered a police investigation after reports that a set of traffic lights near the scene of the accident were not working . |
| 7 | THE United States military is sending thousands of troops to Kismayu after reports that a warlord , Omar Jess , may have launched a push to recapture the southern Somali port . |
| 8 | AN ambulance chief has defended the record of his service after claims that an ambulance took more than half an hour to answer an emergency call in Teesdale . |
| 9 | An MP has called for action after complaints that a gang of youths is terrorising a housing estate . |
| 10 | Kingfisher was forced to show its hand after rumours that a bid was in the offing began to circulate on Tuesday . |
| 11 | The more expressive the language , the more possible states can be described in it ; and hence , the larger will be the space of states that a solver may have to search through for a goal . |
| 12 | The way in which DCs are processed by LIFESPAN is best explained by following the life cycle of states that a software modification passes through , from the time it is proposed until it is approved as a routine quality control activity . |
| 13 | The future exhibitions programme of the ICA supplies something of a guide to the sorts of significances that a critically-minded culture of a post-modernist kind will be pursuing in the next year or two . |
| 14 | So although for the majority of cases that a fatal as a result of diphtheria the fact that , due actually to the pharyngitis and the pseudo- membrane obstructing the respiratory passage . |
| 15 | There is no evidence in the great majority of cases that an altered body clock is in any way responsible , but there is one group of people who suffer from a fairly rare form of insomnia called Delayed Sleep phase Syndrome . |
| 16 | No theme is ever omitted , but one of the individually distinctive aspects of the song is the number of times that a particular phrase is repeated . |
| 17 | The role of the court would be to establish the limits to the spectrum of meanings that a term could bear ; the awesome visage of the Albert Hall would disappear . |
| 18 | The labels also tell us that the United States courts see nothing absurd in admitting the multiplicity of meanings that a statutory term can have , nor in accepting that the agency 's choice as to the precise meaning should govern . |
| 19 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 20 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 21 | But then , you 're too conventional to know anything about the sort of relationships that a literary man can have . ’ |
| 22 | The number of demands that a parent or child will make can depend on their past experience of those demands having been met or be the result of a pattern of behaviour that has evolved due to other problems , that is child 's poor concentration span , or mother 's irritability due to depression or an unhappy marriage . |
| 23 | But the industry consensus yesterday was that the outlook remained gloomy amid worries that a Labour government 's economic policies could further depress sales . |
| 24 | ‘ In short , the contradictions between GCSE and Records of Achievement hinges on the question of whether the priority for 16+ assessment should be the provision of reliable information which has high predictability for the purpose of selection or whether the primary purpose should be to reflect what has been achieved in relation to the whole range of goals that a school may set for itself . |
| 25 | But the headings indicate the kinds of functions that a course can and should perform , if it is to justify its existence as an improvement on independent study . |
| 26 | This is not persuasive where directors do not pay their own premiums , however , and in any case the difficulties faced by insurers in distinguishing high risk from low risk directors ( i.e. performing the monitoring function ) are considerable , given the low visibility of the management decision-making process and the wide range of functions that a director may be called upon to perform . |
| 27 | This brought Saints out of their shell and they forced a series of corners that a scrambling Celtic only just survived . |
| 28 | Last year , after announcing a profit of over £112million for the previous year , Ratner told the Institute of Directors that a cheap cut-glass sherry decanter was sold for £4.99 because it was ‘ total crap ’ . |
| 29 | Social capacities are a useful source of predictions , since they greatly reduce the range of alternatives that an actor is likely to pursue . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most important difference is that the buyer can not complain of defects that a reasonable examination ought to reveal . |