Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not for nothing that he was chosen as Mr Squeaky Clean after the sexual and financial aberrations of his two predecessors . |
| 2 | It 's not for nothing that he has earned his reputation as Scotland 's most effective ‘ company doctor ’ . |
| 3 | It was not for nothing that he paid house insurance . |
| 4 | ‘ It is n't for nothing that he was called the most dangerous man in the galaxy . ’ |
| 5 | But there 's so much for everyone that you can get away from it all . |
| 6 | Many of us find it difficult to have faith and trust and feel love for someone that we can not see and often feel that we can not hear or get close to . |
| 7 | Beth enriched the lives of everyone that she met , always showing concern for others , never complaining , always smiling , living life to the full . |
| 8 | And of course I had to admit in front of everyone that I did n't . |
| 9 | ‘ I can think of nothing that I would like less . ’ |
| 10 | These considerations explain why to say of someone that he is entitled to have authority means that he should be in a position of real power and then he will have legitimate authority . |
| 11 | Of course we may say of someone that he is imaginative if he is original and spontaneous , and if his work is expressive . |
| 12 | What if somebody erm , erm thinks of one that somebody else has thought of |
| 13 | Erm er but that er is a model of one that I made . |
| 14 | Get rid of one that you do n't want , do n't forget there 's two As in maniacs |
| 15 | We are intent on ensuring that the customer is the focus of everything that we do . ’ |
| 16 | Er so what I 'm looking for is to try and see that we do all we can to make sure that the second half of ninety three we take full advantage of everything that we 've got so that we do actually rapidly increase our productivity in the second half of the year . |
| 17 | For this reason , archaeologists bear a heavy responsibility to make comprehensive records of everything that they find and observe , because no one else will ever have another chance to do so . |
| 18 | He could organize the final output of everything that he had thought , right from the beginning through to end . |
| 19 | He could organise the final output of everything that he had thought right from beginning through to end . |
| 20 | But then you picked me up , and you made me your mission — and in spite of everything that I 'd lost , I gained something that I 'd never had before . |
| 21 | Write down a list of everything that you regularly eat and drink , and compare it with the following recommended lists of foods and drinks to increase and decrease . |
| 22 | The second report is a carefully written and elaborate record of everything that you did and thought during the preparation of the report . |
| 23 | Now what they will wan na know is the ins and outs of everything that you 're sending . |
| 24 | Wayne , in her mother 's view , was more than just an ordinary valley kid ; he was a walking symbol of everything that she did n't want for her daughter . |
| 25 | It is also clear that though the accident may have slightly lowered her I Q , she remains an intelligent young lady who is fully aware of everything that she has lost , but determined not to dwell on that loss . |
| 26 | She tailed off , colour coming and going as she remembered what had happened both before and after that fateful conversation she 'd overheard , and saw in his eyes an echo of everything that she was feeling . |
| 27 | Ted Nelson used it in connection with his ambitious Xanadu project , an effort to create a single repository of everything that anybody has ever written . |
| 28 | There is much speculation about the advent of fifth-generation machines which , it is proposed , will be capable of learning , extrapolation , ratiocination and imagination — and hence , possibly , of something that we would recognize as emotion . |
| 29 | And that goes back to what I said earlier , in that we just do n't see ourselves working internally , in meetings , in negotiations and report binding , with erm , with other officer 's , we see ourselves as a vocal point to get in information out , to , to people , erm and working with people , erm , and that 's erm again a major part of the work we do and just as an example of something that we provide , this is erm , this is the hidden divide , the bulletin of Harlow 's Anti Poverty Strategy Group , this is the latest edition , and it 's just an update on erm impact of eh living in Britain in nineteen ninety one today , the people who are on low income , but we , we 've produced that quarterly , erm , but there , we produce loads of leaflets , were always producing leaflets , and basically if there 's a major piece of legislation there be , there be something worth getting use on it . |
| 30 | Romantic love gives us a glimmer of something that we remember during the sticky times , and it 's only when the sticky times begin that real love starts to take over . |