Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother puzzled Clara particularly , for Clelia evidently assumed that she needed no description or definition , and spoke of her as one whose name is a household word . |
| 2 | As Feynman has said , we are asked to believe that the historian who makes a statement about Napoleon simply means that there are books in libraries which make assertions similar to his own . |
| 3 | After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted . |
| 4 | However , a 90:10 deal after costs also means that every expense is borne in that proportion . |
| 5 | There is , however , no firm basis for such confidence and , as will be seen to be significant in relation to notions of parliamentary sovereignty , it is by no means universally accepted that it is only the characteristics of the Parliament of England which survived these constitutional upheavals . |
| 6 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 7 | The bacon-curing business was for sale for £l00,000 so assuming that he could finance the remainder he engaged an accountant to check over the books of the existing business and report back to him . |
| 8 | Taken together , the evidence assembled under the four points of assessment rather suggests that the conventional model of responsible party government is at odds with the facts and so does not provide an adequate explanation for party politics and the making of public policy . |
| 9 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 10 | To summarise , the observations reported in this study and in that of Brunsson clearly indicate that ENS plays an important role in the fluid secretion seen in intestinal inflammation . |
| 11 | I just mentioned that so that when you , if you do this type of photography always remember that your props , whatever they might be , must be absolutely in pristine condition . |
| 12 | It can of course also occur that the buyer treats the contract as repudiated by the seller and yet does not reject any goods . |
| 13 | Socialists had of course always argued that there was something fundamentally wrong with capitalist progress ( and for this reason I shall concentrate on their attitudes ) . |
| 14 | His 12 strikes in the 1st Division in 1989–90 were an important feature of Palace 's creditable showing there , while our fans will of course always remember that it was Mark 's crashing drive at the start of the second half that began our recovery against Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final and , ultimately , helped to take us to Wembley . |
| 15 | This corporate issuer must review this range of activities carefully to ensure that the risk of underpricing the bonds is minimised . |
| 16 | The claim for a straightforward oppositional kind of resistance also assumes that subjects can resist from a position outside the operations of power , according to the dominant inside/outside model of conventional politics . |
| 17 | But the fact that the crusaders — and western monarchs in the twelfth century — did not abandon their style of cavalry strongly suggests that the mounted knight was still a very effective weapon , as well as being increasingly the symbol of social status . |
| 18 | Years of dictatorship also meant that officials in athletic circles had very little grasp on reality . |
| 19 | The curvature of space–time also means that identical clocks at different gravitational potentials must run at different rates . |
| 20 | John Monk of Books Etc felt that the hotlines did no work as well as in previous years . |
| 21 | Eduardo Villaseñor of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) , who had been inaugurated in September as governor of the western state of Michoacán [ see p. 39089 ] , asked on Oct. 6 for a " one-year leave of absence " , a form of words effectively meaning that he was resigning . |
| 22 | The First Law of Thermodynamics basically states that energy has never been observed to be created or destroyed . |
| 23 | ( ‘ And even as wheels in harmony of clockwork so turn that the first , to whoso noteth it , seemeth still , and the last to fly … ’ ) |
| 24 | This often relied upon their so-called ‘ gut reaction ’ to evaluate children 's work , with the Head of Department freely admitting that he found it difficult to break down and assess different aspects of work . |
| 25 | The Head of Department then said that he considered that the criticism had been constructive , that he accepted most of it and would try out various changes . |
| 26 | I remind the House that couples in the intimate atmosphere of engagement sometimes find that pregnancy arises and the shotgun marriage follows . |
| 27 | Because the purpose tests outlined above need to be satisfied throughout Newco 's accounting period , it should be ensured that Newco 's objects clause in its Memorandum of Association clearly states that its purpose is either to trade , or to be a holding company of shares in a company or companies which it controls . |
| 28 | The prediction of singularities presumably indicates that the classical theory will break down . |
| 29 | The creation of a family of marriage usually means that , in Western societies at least , a " household " will be established . |
| 30 | And although subsequent reviews found it thoroughly sane and quite uncontroversial , clerics of the Church of England publicly announced that they would be on standby alert to deal with any members of their congregation upset by the programmes . |