Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They generally , for reasons that we shall come to , gang together into large communal survival machines or ‘ vehicles ’ . |
| 2 | About one hundred million years ago , for reasons that we do not understand , the ammonite dynasty began to dwindle . |
| 3 | For reasons that we shall discuss in Chapter 9 , the members of a colony of social insects co-operate with one another , and they will therefore give signal that are as informative as possible ; they will not usually give deceptive signals to fellow members of their colony . |
| 4 | One possible answer is to say that God chose the initial configuration of the universe for reasons that we can not hope to understand . |
| 5 | I mean , we 're not , erm , we 're just simplifying a very complex situation , and in fact , probably large numbers of genes are , are involved , and they 're , there are probably complex interactions between different sorts of altruism. kin altruism will certainly function within families for reasons that we 've just been looking at , but this will also be a fertile and erm , encouraging er , framework for sibling altruism . |
| 6 | The Touche Ross report had to be completed in a considerable hurry , for reasons that we understand . |
| 7 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I told Harold that I did not approve of the appointment , but for reasons that he would not greatly appreciate . |
| 10 | But for reasons that he took to be his own error in transcription , anything that he pilfered straight from life never sounded convincing . |
| 11 | ‘ For reasons that I can not understand , ’ he continued , ‘ we in Britain seem to have a negative response to winners . |
| 12 | We can all still bring leather in from our friends in Australia but for reasons that I do n't wholly understand , this is very much dearer than the local er supplies available and for the time being it 's not of interest to the saddlery-makers in Walsall . |
| 13 | Once only was I able to talk to Hayward de vive voix , and that was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , when I referred again to the housekeeper problem ; but in the end , for reasons that I do not know , our Greek candidate , who might have been an admirable choice , was not summoned for interview . |
| 14 | None of that , for reasons that I have already explained , is put in jeopardy by the trust proposal . |
| 15 | The only increase smaller than the £15 is in what is known as the terminal illness category for nursing homes , for reasons that I explained to the House in my uprating statement , where we have instead thought it more appropriate to make , through the Department of Health , an additional grant of £1 million specifically directed to the funding of hospices . |
| 16 | I am glad to have the chance of following the hon. Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) , the Chairman of the Procedure Select Committee , although I strongly disagree with his suggestions , for reasons that I have given before and hope to repeat this evening . |
| 17 | This is known , for reasons that I 'll point out in a second , as a macroscopic technique , and the currents were usually identified through replacement of ions selectively , and of course this can generally be done only in the external medium , because you do n't have control over the internal medium . |
| 18 | Now I personally felt that it would be quite inhumane to deal with someone who was somewhere near the magic 60 cut-off , for reasons that it would be impossible to examine with any clarity the reasons for this change of heart , and the strong will that he had shown during his previous operational record . |
| 19 | Just for reasons that it 'll draw better if I open it . |
| 20 | Second , these principles should then lead us on a successful search for phenomena that we had not observed previously . |
| 21 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
| 22 | He said that there were things about Connie that he would n't like his daughter to know . ’ |
| 23 | It should not be forgotten that , in addition to those being regulated , there are those who have the power to influence the composition of the accounts , thereby manipulating the directions for change that they consider desirable . |
| 24 | The police service themselves recognize that there has to be a a need for change that they have to be brought up to date er and er I think you 'll see when I a announce my decisions on the Sheahy report er that er I am taking the need to er reform the police service , very seriously indeed . |
| 25 | For transgressions that I did n't know I 'd made ? |
| 26 | Another worry is that the existence of guaranteed compensation will encourage some farmers to apply for grants for operations that they have no real intention of carrying out , simply in order to become eligible for compensation . |
| 27 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 28 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 29 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 30 | TV 's Miss Victoria ‘ Vicki ’ Michelle gets so many requests for suspenders that she 'd ‘ go BUST if she answered them all ; |