Example sentences of "[prep] that [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever advertisers and their agencies may think about the respective merits of Conservative , Labour or even Liberal Democrat administrations , general election mean a windfall of about £10m worth of business for media owners and a favoured few advertising agencies — reportedly some £8m of that spent by the Conservatives , £2m by Labour and a meagre £250,000 by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 2 | The total vertical heat transport is the sum of that transported by the motion and that conducted down the temperature gradient ( cf. also Section 21.7 ) . |
| 3 | The activity obtained at an intermediate ionic strength ( 70 mM ammonium sulphate ) was about 80% of that observed at the lowest concentration used ( 20 mM ) , a situation in which the activity of P A2b in linear templates was of about 10% if the initiating NTPs were present or even lower in their absence . |
| 4 | The meeting was arranged after predictions by the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and the Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) that the US budget deficit for fiscal 1991 ( beginning Oct. 1 , 1990 ) , would be considerably in excess of that anticipated in the administration 's budget proposal of January 1990 [ see pp. 37177-79 ] . |
| 5 | By the mid 1850S , for instance , only 5 per cent of London 's milk arrived by train , and the bulk of that carried by the Eastern Counties Railway . |
| 6 | ‘ Our aim is to raise low wages in Britain over time so that the lowest-paid worker will receive an hourly rate not less than two-thirds of that received by the male median full-time worker . ’ |
| 7 | Even after the Equal Pay Act had effected some narrowing of the pay gap , there was an unexplained excess of men 's pay over women 's pay worth about 30 per cent of that received by the average 32-year-old female employee in early 1978 . |
| 8 | Bunkers , coal , they all coal furnace you see , and we er they 'd come in and we used to fill them up with coal , whatever they wanted lot of that went over the side coal , beautiful coal that was . |
| 9 | Head of the school Mike McKechnie later visited Shanghai to seal a friendship agreement and discuss the course content , a scaled down but otherwise authentic version of that taught at the institute . |
| 10 | By notice of appeal dated 15 February 1991 Mr. Smart appealed against that refusal on the grounds that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in holding that the principles of natural justice did not endow a prisoner serving a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment with the right to know the factors ( including the views of the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice ) which the Secretary of State took into account when fixing the tariff , the right to make informed representations to the Secretary of State about the length of the tariff to be applied and the right to be provided with the reasons for the period chosen by the Secretary of State as the tariff period ; and ( 2 ) in holding that the practice of the Secretary of State in murder cases of fixing a tariff in excess of that recommended by the trial judge and/or the Lord Chief Justice was lawful . |
| 11 | Note that the effect on sodium nitroprusside was the opposite of that found with the NO synthase inhibitors and its administration greatly reduced the response of the gall bladder to CCK-8 . |
| 12 | They are also more than twice as likely to develop their own meanings as they are to extend those contributed by children , this ratio being almost the exact opposite of that found in the speech of parents . |
| 13 | This trend towards compulsory admissions of young people to residential care is the reverse of that intended in the Children Act 1975 , which stresses the importance of considering the child 's wishes and feelings , having regard to his age and understanding ( Children Act 1975 , Ch. 5.3 ) . |
| 14 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |
| 15 | But none of these made any difference to the basic shape of these key results : on the first repetition , t was not important but both and k were — and in the direction predicted by the theory ; on the second repetition , t was important ( and with the right sign ) , as were σ and k — but they both had the wrong sign ( the opposite of that predicted by the theory ) . |
| 16 | They found that where the market value was 85 per cent or less of that predicted by the model , shares outperformed the market . |
| 17 | Today , the Croats insist that the number of Serbs , gypsies and Jews massacred in the camps of the quisling Axis-allied Croatian state was only a tiny fraction of that claimed by the communists . |
| 18 | The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians ' far distant and antique cousin , the lungfish . |
| 19 | This directed that a number of Czechs and dissident Yugoslavs , who had infiltrated an area in Austria east of that covered by the Allied V Corps , should be treated as disarmed enemy troops and evacuated to British concentration camps in Italy . |
| 20 | Operating profit at £3.1m , was 71% of that earned in the previous year ( £4.3m ) Although any reduction in profits is regrettable , the drop was limited to 29% such that a return on sales of 7.2% was achieved , a margin which compares favourably with others in our sector . ’ |
| 21 | There were so many reasons he could think of that stood in the way of his emulating Sebastian Smith of Greycoats that he could not start to list them . |
| 22 | This is the angle through which a source must be moved at constant detector distance to reduce the count to 50% of that measured with the source on the detector axis . |
| 23 | Generally , these policies were successful in preventing heavy unemployment like that experienced in the 1930s , but unfortunately they tended to give rise to the phenomenon known as ‘ stop-go ’ . |
| 24 | It would be ridiculous to leave a child like that stuck in the bottom form . |
| 25 | To ascertain with accuracy whether such structure existed throughout its whole length , I made sections of the spinal marrow at different distances from the brain , and found that each divided portion exhibited an orifice with a diameter sufficient to admit a large sized pin ; from which a small quantity of transparent colourless fluid issued like that contained in the ventricles of the brain . |
| 26 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 27 | Information like that yielded by the travelling iceberg will help scientists to determine whether climate change due to the greenhouse effect is influencing Antarctica 's ice . |
| 28 | Unger depicts herself and others working in the psychology of women , as caught up in ‘ facho ’ , a feminist version of macho ( Arpad 1986 : 208 ) , which in their case took the form of an obsession with productivity much like that found in the mainstream : ‘ like the characters in Through The Looking Glass we are all running ( and writing ) as fast as we can to keep up ’ ( 1979 : vii ) . |
| 29 | It is not surprising that there were many attracted to the idea that scientific knowledge was the only true kind , or at least that reasoning like that used in the sciences could solve all human problems . |
| 30 | The relationship so created is then checked against that declared for the intersection of the functional domain ( see Figure 2.33 ) . |