Example sentences of "[conj] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that urban areas were hit early and particularly hard by this loss is then explained by conditions which operate within this broader context : for example , that cities tended to have the older and thus often less profitable parts of individual industries ; or that they suffered from decentralization to cheaper and less organized workers . |
| 2 | One is aware that educators in this field are treading sacred ground and expose themselves to accusations that they create unrealistic expectations ( say , elaborate rituals ) , or that they encroach upon the territory of other professionals ( the Clergy , perhaps ) . |
| 3 | That some of the articles were ill-argued , that they lacked style , or that they attributed to schools and teachers almost every ill that mankind was heir to , went unnoticed in the popular press ( which reported , usually without reservation , the ‘ findings ’ of each Black Paper ) . |
| 4 | It means that there has to be some violence used against the woman to overbear her will or that there has to be a threat of violence as a result of which her will is overborne . ’ |
| 5 | It was n't as if he was married to Wendy , or that she knew about it . |
| 6 | Even though the table excludes those unable to give an appropriate answer on both occasions the answers which were given could mean a variety of different things ; for example , that the respondent really was feeling worried when she said so , or that she thought ‘ worried ’ meant something else , or that she thought the answer meant something else , or that she answered at random . |
| 7 | Although Kirk does not record that he raised any specific objection to this , or that he asked for confirmation that the Cossacks were all Soviet nationals within the terms of allied policy , he nevertheless includes the exchanges about the Cossacks among the points on which he requests the State Department 's views . |
| 8 | ‘ Or that you 'd at least had some control over what happened . ’ |
| 9 | The need for industrial application shows the practical nature of patent law , which requires that the invention should be something which can be produced or that it relates to some sort of industrial process . |
| 10 | Thirdly , it is doubtful whether the General Strike could be regarded as the watershed in British labour history , which it is sometimes claimed to be , or that it changed in any significant form the pattern of industrial relations . |
| 11 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 12 | This means either that the utterance of [ 14a ] was not a case of genuine communication or that it did in fact achieve relevance . |
| 13 | What makes these system knowledge-based is not that it somehow takes knowledge to write them , nor that they behave as if they had knowledge , but rather that their architectures include explicit knowledge bases . |
| 14 | Rawls shows neither that this assumption follows from the Kantian insight nor that it leads to neutral political concern . |
| 15 | This month , for no particular reason except that we felt like it , we offer a celebration of the word , from the P-funky smile of The Afros ( aboe ) to the activism of the X-Clan , from Monie Love 's glorious pop to Gang Starr 's jazz variation . |
| 16 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 17 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 18 | Whereas , in a crystal we may choose the axes of symmetry , in an amorphous polymer there is by definition no symmetry and all we know about the atom in a chain is where its topological nearest neighbours are but not where its spatial neighbours are , except that they lie within a " van der Waals radius ' of the chosen atom . |
| 19 | I have never understood why she was criticised by the Opposition for speaking up for Britain , but I am not exactly clear about their present position , except that they seem to be claiming that they can negotiate better conditions than the Government , despite their failure when in government in 1975 to negotiate proper terms for our entry . |
| 20 | You could n't describe its colour , except that there seemed to be depths within it , and depths within depths . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not probing , you know , Joe , but we 've been together months now , nine of them , in fact , and I know no more about you now than on the day we met , except that you come from the wilds of Northumberland . |
| 22 | I can think of no way round this dilemma except that you come in person and explain to her that it is an entirely business-like arrangement . |
| 23 | Except that she became with child , and Robert — her husband , you must know , who was a brute with a terrible temper ! — refused to acknowledge it as his own . |
| 24 | I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons . |
| 25 | Well , that was because — but , try as she could , there seemed to be no other reason except that he wanted to . |
| 26 | Nothing is known about his early life , except that he graduated from the University of Seville with a bachelor 's degree in logic and philosophy . |
| 27 | In them he isolates the main events of the Passion story for attention in particular ways in the sequence in which they appear in the Hours , except that he begins with the agony in the garden not included there . |
| 28 | Except that it seemed to him rather funny . |
| 29 | There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions , not three . |
| 30 | Clause 4 has the same wording , except that it applies to the chief inspector for Wales . |