Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Will the Minister confirm that the total cost of the Trident programme is likely to be over £23 billion , that it is a monstrous waste of money , that to hold nuclear weapons is immoral and that in the interests of world peace he should cancel the programme and provide useful work for the highly skilled people who have manufactured those awful weapons of mass destruction ?
2 However , we recognise that the church has not always been democratic and that at times we have been insensitive to violations of basic human rights even within the church .
3 The study points out : ‘ There are uncomfortably strong reasons for supposing that industry in Britain has not adopted microelectronics to the fullest extent possible and that in consequence it is already tending to fall behind our leading competitors . ’
4 At one extreme of the southern oscillation the pressure over Australia is low and that over the Pacific is high ; at the other extreme , as in 1982 , the situation is reversed .
5 For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive .
6 He wanted to make sure that people still enjoyed working for Scottish Amicable and that above all the strong corporate spirit of ‘ amicability ’ should prosper .
7 He ‘ hoped that the strategic assumption that it was vital to us to keep open the Mediterranean and that in fact we could , should be re-examined .
8 It is suggested that where a woman demonstrates her lack of consent , it is no hardship for a man to enquire whether her consent is present and that as a matter of policy the law should demand that he do so .
9 But it is also clear that Denning started off with a presumption that everyone involved was innocent and that at some stage he had personal doubts as to whether this was indeed so .
10 X went on to tell D that the information she was imparting was sensitive and highly confidential and that as a result of the conversation he would be an ‘ insider . ’
11 There were too many locked doors — all those leading to the street , tame excuses by the staff , brief interviews with Penumbra who claimed she was so busy and that of course Zambia could go out once she was sure SHe was well enough .
12 During the second interval Geoffrey apologised , giving the excuse that one of the battens of the hollow trees had worked itself loose and that at the last moment Bunny had required him to fix it more securely into its brace .
13 The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect .
14 Jessop argues that this is highly unlikely and that in a crisis we can not say in advance whether the state — now divorced from any one-to-one relationship with the ruling class — will assist capital , labour or ( as seems to be the perennial case in Britain ) pursue policies to the mutual ruin of the contending classes .
15 A major criticism of the town-planning sections of the 1909 Act had been that the provisions were cumbersome and that as a consequence the operation of town planning schemes was slow and protracted .
16 It will further be argued that initial teacher training can not be treated as separate from other areas of teacher education and that changes in any one sector will inevitably influence all teacher education provision , initial , probation support and in-service and that in the light of this interdependence , strategies should be established for a coordinated response across the spectrum of teacher education provision .
17 It did so despite the fact that Goulding J had found that an experienced salesman quickly acquired a good idea of the prices obtained by his employer 's competitors , but that such knowledge was usually only approximate and that in this field accurate information was valuable , because a difference of even one penny a pound might be important .
18 In terms of such companies , therefore , the economic activity in the central region was dominant and that in the peripheral region was subordinate .
19 Note first that since they form part of a contract between buyer and seller they are legally enforceable and that in itself is an important advantage because it reduces the cost of enforcing collusion .
20 He commented with amazement that the charge was supposed to be entirely arbitrary and that at one ground it was said to be nil .
21 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
22 They hoped that the division of Palestine into Israeli and Jordanian parts could become permanent and that in time the reasons for war would slowly fade away .
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