Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Touche Ross report had to be completed in a considerable hurry , for reasons that we understand . |
| 3 | About one hundred million years ago , for reasons that we do not understand , the ammonite dynasty began to dwindle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But for reasons that he took to be his own error in transcription , anything that he pilfered straight from life never sounded convincing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | None of that , for reasons that I have already explained , is put in jeopardy by the trust proposal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Second , these principles should then lead us on a successful search for phenomena that we had not observed previously . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For transgressions that I did n't know I 'd made ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 20 | That humans also fail on these sentences was regarded as support that it reflected how humans process ambiguity although arguments exist against this inference ( Briscoe , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | It is through change that we grow and discover ourselves , that we begin to actualise some of the myriad possibilities of our lives . |
| 22 | It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about . |
| 23 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 24 | Mr Rose , had he had access to the whole elaboration of this pleasing metaphor , with its roots in folklore and childhood culture , hallucination and dream , might , or might not , have understood something about Marcus that he did not already understand , and might , or might not , have felt able to offer help or advice as a result of this understanding . |
| 25 | The same sort of reasoning about conjugation that we used for edges shows that we can use this process to restore all the corners , though we do disturb the edges . |
| 26 | right , now what you 've got to judge at the end of the day , now lets say for instance that you 've put in six lines six lines , right and you only wanted to use two of them all you 've got a number for is the rental charge is n't it ? |
| 27 | From the day they had all parted , diverging from Ecalpemos out into the world , he had never seen Adam again , but he knew all about him , knew for instance that he had become a partner in a company selling computers that called itself Verne-Smith-Duchini . |
| 28 | when Moore says he knows such and such [ for instance that he has two hands : JD ] he is really enumerating a lot of empirical propositions which we affirm without special testing ; propositions , that is , which have a peculiar logical role in the system of our empirical propositions . |
| 29 | A second example of the importance of giving opportunities to other people comes from the type of head who , in pursuing the argument that good management of a school should lead to good learning by the child , watches pupils for signs that they do in some way match hopes about independence of mind , wholeness and honesty . |
| 30 | I suspected this fool was so desperate for money that he 'd concealed the bumps and scratches on the disc with black shoe polish , so I was examining its surface with a magnifying glass . |