Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the central point is that we need firmly to shift out of the mode of thinking that assumes that at pensionable age most people become useless burdens ; to realize that most of them have at least as much to offer as many people in their twenties , and hence actively seek ways to use their abilities positively . |
| 2 | But there is a fall-back position and that is that the European Community have a directive called the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive that requires that before a major project of this type is put through there must be the fullest public consultation . |
| 3 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 4 | However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment . |
| 5 | You know that you 've got , the fact that you can get current statements at the press of a button from July onwards , we should be able to say that means that on the teams that have n't got ta control the work going round to quotes and back again , having it typed and back again , |
| 6 | But I mean basically , that means that for the , tomorrow morning 's breakfast programme , I want a package including lots of different views , but for drive time which is five till six in the evening , I just want a straightforward , two minute head-to-head , one-to-one interview but for lunchtime which is C A T O , which is Cambridgeshire at One , which is our lunchtime programme , I 'd like you to put all the views into a script of about forty seconds , and do n't forget , for the two o'clock bulletin , which is a very short one , I 'd just like three sentences of copy which sums up the story . |
| 7 | As Diane Bailey 's Curtis Cup team were chosen in 1986 that means that in four of the past five years a team have come top of the poll . |
| 8 | The University will do its best to avoid large increases and guarantees that for students on course , fees will not rise by an amount larger than the annual rate of academic inflation . |
| 9 | Adams ( 1979 ) presents a review and experimental study of the subject , and concludes that despite the theoretical problems , there is practical value in teaching rhythm to learners of English . |
| 10 | Robert Gray has analysed marriage patterns in late nineteenth-century Edinburgh and concludes that by the end of the period , patterns of segregated intermarriage as between the families of skilled " and " unskilled " workers were tending to break down . |
| 11 | Mathesius ( quoted in Firbas , 1974 : 17 ) compares English and Czech in this respect and concludes that in English , the grammatical principle ( i.e. syntax ) plays the leading role in the hierarchy of word order principles and that ‘ English differs from Czech in being so little susceptible to the requirements of FSP as to frequently disregard them altogether ’ . |
| 12 | It calculates that for every 100 hundred trees cut done only nine are planted , and concludes that in some countries fuelwood supplies will soon be exhausted unless massive replanting is undertaken . |
| 13 | The manual alerts the teacher to the kinds of ‘ errors ’ children are most likely to make and emphasises that in the ‘ correct ’ drawing ‘ the front of the road occupies the whole width of the picture , and the distant end of it vanishes away to a point far back on the horizon ’ . |
| 14 | The law respects the right of the shareholders to determine the objectives of their association through contract and accepts that by virtue of their capital contributions they should be regarded as the owners of the company . |
| 15 | The learner notes what has happened in the past , and assumes that in like circumstances , the same will happen in future . |
| 16 | The personal computer storage market is evolving so fast that Conner Peripherals Inc , San Jose is having to adjust to changed circumstances and warns that as a result , first quarter profit will be down on that for the fourth quarter , on higher sales . |
| 17 | This omits the details on Mildred , but adds , in a way reminiscent of chapter 5 of the 1027 Letter , that Cnut was most acceptable to the emperor , and says that on landing he hurried to St Augustine 's to offer them rich gifts — no doubt including the gold plate which he took from his treasures and held aloft to attract the saint 's attention during the storm . |
| 18 | Kathryn , who is married with an 18-month-old daughter , said she was just curious to know whether these experiences could be connected with reincarnation and says that at times : ‘ I feel restless , a sort of sad yearning for what could have been a past life . ’ |
| 19 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 20 | It aims to turn the headphones radios and television group into a mini-conglomerate and says that in the five weeks since new board was appointed , ‘ considerable progress has already been made . ’ |
| 21 | In De Officiis he describes two ways that men can do wrong , ‘ by force or by fraud ’ , and says that In order to guard against such destructiveness Cicero urges that ‘ pretence and concealment [ simulatio dissimulatioque ] should be done away with in all departments of our daily life ’ . |
| 22 | Dataquest notes that 1992 was the first year in which each of the five top workstation vendors offered RISC-based workstations for under $10,000 and says that in the third quarter more than 60% of the boxes going out the door were priced under $15,000 . |
| 23 | When Boswell sought to establish a distinction between ‘ the licentiousness of a single woman , and that of a married woman ’ , Johnson intensified his analogy , comparing the loose single woman to a thief , and the randy married woman to a thief who first murders the victim , and says that among women the infection of licentiousness spreads from the single to the married . |
| 24 | A new French contender in the object database stakes has emerged in the shape of Matisse , from Intellitic International SA , of Saint Quentin en Yvelines — and Waltham , Massachusetts-based parallel computer systems manufacturer Kendall Square Research Inc and says that after an extensive vendor review to select an object-oriented database developer whose technology would best complement the KSR1 architecture , it concluded that Intellitic 's Matisse was the most suitable . |
| 25 | This pattern is essentially the same as that seen in the absence of actinomycin and confirms that at equilibrium insufficient actinomycin is bound to tyr T to produce a footprint . |
| 26 | This pattern is essentially the same as produced in the absence of actinomycin and confirms that at equilibrium insufficient drug is bound to the DNA to produce a footprint . |
| 27 | Bottoms ( 1983 ) examines data from 1938 , 1959 and 1980 and shows that for all adult indictable offenders the percentage of custodial sentences drops from 33.3 in 1938 to 29.1 in 1959 to 14.8 in 1980 . |
| 28 | Genevieve Lloyd , in The Man of Reason : ‘ Male ’ and ‘ Female ’ in Western Philosophy ( 1984 ) , looks at the way in which Western philosophy has conceptualised reason , and shows that throughout its history ideals of reason have incorporated an exclusion of the feminine , which creates both practical and conceptual problems for women who may experience conflicts between reason and femininity . |
| 29 | The second sub-section looks at the implementation of more sophisticated open-loop control schemes and shows that in many cases the choice of software- or hardware-based control depends on the aspects of performance which are most important in the particular application . |
| 30 | In that case , the hon. Gentleman sets an example and shows that in a free society people can decide what they want to drink . |