Example sentences of "[conj] that [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " … the Church Yard of Kilmeny is quite open , never having been Inclosed. & that besides the Indecency thereof , the Grave Stones are much Injured by Horses and Cattle pasturing thereon … " ask for an estimate for building a stone wall . |
| 2 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 3 | It was not at all necessary to say that I hoisted French colours , and therefore took the schooner unawares , or that at the time most of her men were on board of the Indiaman ; the great art in this world is , to know where to leave off , and in nothing more than when people take the pen in their hands . |
| 4 | For example , responses may confuse experience in the street with that at home , or that from the town in general with that in the neighbourhood in particular . |
| 5 | He was prepared to find that Kate had gone , or that in the meantime her boyfriend had turned up . |
| 6 | Again , he failed to appreciate that the conspicuous consumption which was the fruit of successful emulation was not as invariably absurd as he made out , or that in the course of history world-wide they were responsible for the greatest architecture and other manifestations of high art . |
| 7 | In addition , it is open to the producer or director to show that he did not know or reasonably suspect that the offending programme would be included in a cable programme , or that in the context of the broadcast the programme would probably provoke racial hatred . |
| 8 | Iraq on Feb. 15 announced an offer to withdraw from Kuwait , complying with UN Security Council Resolution 660 , provided that ( i ) there was a complete ceasefire ; ( ii ) all subsequent resolutions on the conflict were annulled and economic sanctions lifted ; ( iii ) coalition forces withdrew completely from the region within one month of a ceasefire being declared ; ( iv ) Israel withdrew " from Palestine and the Arab territories it is occupying in the Golan and southern Lebanon " , or that in the event of its not doing so the UN passed against Israel resolutions identical to those passed against Iraq ; ( v ) Iraq 's " historical rights on land and at sea " were guaranteed ; and ( vi ) the " political arrangement to be agreed " should proceed from " the people 's will and in accordance with democratic practice " , and not on the basis of " the rights acquired by the al-Sabah family " . |
| 9 | The test of incapacity should be either that contained in s94(2) ( where a judge has to be satisfied of the incapacity ) or that in the wider provision of s145(1) ( where the patient is " a person suffering or appearing to be suffering from mental disorder " ) . |
| 10 | A visitor to Mohenjo Daro , one of the Indus Valley sites , will be left with the impression that this city with all it contained had either in record time surpassed all other human generations in inventiveness , or that like the Aryans they were immigrants bringing with them centuries of cultural inheritance . |
| 11 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |
| 12 | At the most basic level there is the rejection of any purpose in the pattern of human activities , except that of the instinct for survival itself , and the acceptance of a theory of cultural evolution which explains the origin of human values . |
| 13 | Here again was confirmation for Beaton that Vidor was ‘ America 's bravest director ’ , very much ‘ a student of the Russian and French schools ’ , but again his great fear was that the film would be a ‘ remarkable achievement ’ from every standpoint ‘ except that of the box office ’ . |
| 14 | Specifically , Sartre creates a single history by excluding all histories except that of the West ; his history as totalization can therefore only work through a determined ethnocentricity . |
| 15 | In answer to these inquiries the Financial Secretary gave similar answers in relation to each class namely ( 1 ) that in all the cases ( except that of the teachers ' concessionary education ) that the benefits would be taxed on the same basis as under the existing law and ( 2 ) that in all cases the amount of the charge would be nil , small or , in the case of the schoolteachers , ‘ very small indeed . ’ |
| 16 | At the beginning of the century , all journals except that of the Linnean Society were general journals , publishing material in all ( or most ) of the sciences-even the Linnean Society included animals , vegetables and minerals within its purview . |
| 17 | If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals . |
| 18 | Nearly 10,000 delegates voted for ( i ) the introduction of direct and secret ballots for all internal party elections except that for the national executive committee ; ( ii ) the reduction of national executive seats from 37 to nine ; ( iii ) increased consultation at grassroots level on party policy and an end to PRI headquarters interference in the party affairs of the state ; and ( iv ) the nomination of the presidential candidate by a PRI national convention of democratically elected delegates and not by the outgoing President as before . |
| 19 | They have never been a part of Middlesbrough , except that for the Post Office 's convenience that town is used as an addition to their postal address . |
| 20 | Nothing wrong with that , except that on the end was speared a tuna fish sandwich . |
| 21 | He had found nothing more , except that on the beaten earth of the floor there had been a single dark stain , from what he could not tell . |
| 22 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 23 | All could be turned over except that by the stair opening and at the end of the canopy . |
| 24 | There was no light in the drawing-room except that from the fire , which was burning brightly and leaving deep shadows in the corner of the room . |
| 25 | The process is a bit like winnowing , the old method of using the wind to separate wheat from chaff , except that in the case of pyroclastic material there is no simple division into light material ( husks ) and heavy ( grain ) but a continuous gradation in sizes ( and therefore weight ) of particles from fine to coarse . |
| 26 | It was not just a reason to indulge in nostalgia ; though the tradition was basically the same as it had always been , except that in the past the people had walked further in the processions . |
| 27 | It is not clear why any of the clergy should be disqualified ( as opposed to restrained by their own professional ethics ) at all , except that in the case of the Church of England some sort of case can then be made out by reason of the right of bishops to sit in the House of Lords . |
| 28 | An observer would follow the same procedure in judging the traveller 's choice right or wrong and in predicting that choice , except that in the former case the question is how the traveller would react in fullest awareness , in the latter how he will react in his actual awareness . |
| 29 | For the next three centuries there was no further trouble within the Province of Britannia , and all the military problems were confined to the northern frontier , except that in the late second century the Brigantes seem to have been in a state of unrest , but the historical reference is far from clear . |
| 30 | I do n't know quite why that should be except that in the Fifties all my peers were fascinated by the industrialised , consumer society of which the USA was the supreme example . |