Example sentences of "[coord] that [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Nor that by marrying John Carrow her daughter had behaved in a wicked , even if understandable , way for which they were all now paying the price .
2 Aggressive behaviour is defined as coming from a belief that your rights are more important than other people 's , and that in seeking to meet your needs you can violate those of others .
3 In recent years , the Committee has noted , with disappointment , that the new Legal Aid Board was not ‘ a Legal Services Board with overall responsibility for legal aid and legal services ’ ; that the present system could not be said to constitute a ‘ comprehensive system of legal services offering good early advice ’ ; and that in considering reform to the legal profession , there had been a failure by government ‘ to examine the place that lawyers ’ services should occupy in the field of legal services as a whole . ’
4 However , it should not be forgotten that Molyneux was also a royal servant , and that in securing patronage for his kinsman in 1473 he was receiving a reward appropriate to his position as a leading local member of the king 's household .
5 However , it should not be forgotten that Molyneux was also a royal servant , and that in securing patronage for his kinsman in 1473 he was receiving a reward appropriate to his position as a leading local member of the king 's household .
6 We prefer this because we believe that this is the way in which we can learn from our mistakes ; and that in finding that our conjecture was false we shall have learnt much about the truth , and shall have got nearer to the truth .
7 And that in losing control she had gained something infinitely more precious …
8 Will the Minister assure us that the Government will give the maximum assistance with those weapons as well as with nuclear weapons and that in granting full diplomatic recognition to those republics the acceptance of full international obligations , including the Helsinki process and those features that relate specifically to human rights , will be a priority ?
9 He boldly asserted that while courses with these characteristics remained goals to be aimed for , there was genuine value in shorter courses for people of all backgrounds in a wide range of subjects — and that in offering such courses the WEA was furthering the spread of an educated democracy .
10 Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book .
11 What really matters is not how the horse won , but that he did win , and that in doing so he ended his racecourse career displaying that sparkling but short-lived turn of foot for which he will long be remembered .
12 We believe that in a fair , competitive economy , men and women will be able to develop to the full , and that in doing so they will create greater prosperity for all .
13 We think there is very strong ground for saying that it does , and that by recognising both potential criminal origins in section 211 and then by channelling all judicial review applications together by section 21K under Order 53 , the legislature was providing for all .
14 Consequently , they believe that domestic services are a good thing and a necessary part of everyday life and that by encouraging the growth of urban centres they are making a positive contribution to ‘ community life ’ .
15 Nevertheless , Michael Bailey believes that this could be the beginning of the end of Asian drive fisheries , and that by working with people , with an understanding of their culture and needs , cooperation can result .
16 Wells replied that he was a busy man and that by going to the police he considered that he had discharged his public duty .
17 As it is , I think every hour that passes increases the risk of your not seeing your daughter again whether you pay the ransom or not , and that by paying you may well be signing her death warrant .
18 Alice questioned uneasily , conscious of the fact that this man belonged to a society whose conventions differed greatly from her own and that by questioning the moral issues , she sounded unworldly , unsophisticated .
19 She added that the festival had been attended by more people than ever before , and that by celebrating it in a smaller town , away from the more sophisticated attractions of Bogotá , the festival had a more genuine , grassroots character .
20 Quite recently many corporations have discovered that they were considerably over-insured and that by re-structuring their insurance and taking over some of the risks their costs could be reduced .
21 It was once thought that tool users might have a more complex and sophisticated nervous system than other animals , and that by studying them we might find out something of significance about the human race itself .
22 In an interview last month Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that technical advances now make it possible to create relatively inexpensive public databases , with telephone companies acting as the backbone for what he termed ‘ a huge emerging market , ’ enabling subscribers to store and recall voice messages and receive what he calls ‘ home mail ’ electronically , and that by matching the latest parallel processors with Oracle 's software , new data services could deliver information at a tenth the current cost .
23 One might be tempted to argue that the photon is absorbed by the microscope and that by measuring the latter 's consequent recoil , due to acquiring the photon 's momentum after its collision with the electron , we could evaluate this momentum as accurately as we wished .
24 It rested on two basic assumptions : that Britain 's power and influence in the world depended upon a sound economy ; and that by making the fullest use of nuclear weapons , missiles , and modern transport aircraft , men and money could be saved for the country 's economic benefit .
25 I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time .
26 A woman with an ‘ afflicted ’ husband told the 1888 Select Committee on Sweating that she ‘ finished ’ four pairs of trousers a day , for which she made at most 1/2d , that her wages were 4d per day less than four years previously , and that after paying her rent , she had 5/ a week on which to keep her three children , her husband and herself .
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