Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A thing to be forgotten , and certainly not something that had any power in the present except that of a distant unhappy memory .
2 It was expected that these would be first seen at a higher value of the exposure and that in every case a roughly linear graph segment would follow the point at which the subject was fully seen .
3 All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues .
4 It should be said that the fact that electrical activity was possible indicates that Miss Thomas had experienced the cardiac arrest a relatively short time prior to her arrival in the department and that at least some of the resuscitative effort performed by the police had been effective .
5 He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him .
6 The guardian ad litem takes the view that this decision is against the interests of the child and that in some way the inconvenience of the decision ought to be got round .
7 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 .
8 Thirdly , he reaffirmed that it was essential to strengthen the rule of law within the Community and that in order to achieve a greater degree of enforcement and implementation of European rules , the European Court of Justice should be given the power to fine member states for failing to comply with court judgements .
9 Tradition , with her thousand tongues , said this barrow was the tomb of a Cornish King or Roman General , the Arch Druids of the day , an Irish Saint etc ; and , moreover , that vast treasures lay burried with the body and that in the early part of the century a golden boat had been found concealed below its surface .
10 A last distinction between calming experience in Britain after The Brow and that on the Continent since the Woonerf , lies in the dissimilar attitudes of government transport departments as reflected in their literature .
11 There was no light in the drawing-room except that from the fire , which was burning brightly and leaving deep shadows in the corner of the room .
12 The Court of Appeal decided however that the defendant had really only contracted with one company within the group and that regarding the area in which it did its business a countrywide restraint was unreasonable .
13 In my judgment there was evidence upon which the learned judge could conclude that Mr Carey and Miss Burrow were living in the premises with leave of the respondent and that during the period of his occupation Mr Carey was not in adverse possession .
14 It is thus clear that the practice of was not without importance from the earliest days of the state and that in Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih — perhaps also in the elusive Elvan Fakih and others there were men who performed much the same function as later Muftis ; but so scanty and uncertain is the available information about this early period that one can not confidently assert the existence , still less the continuity , of an officially designated post of Mufti .
15 According to section 40(1) , the court or the comptroller must be satisfied that ‘ the patent is ( having regard among other things to the size and nature of the employer 's undertaking ) of outstanding benefit to the employer and that by reason of those facts it is just that the employee should be awarded compensation to be paid by the employer ’ .
16 At some of the sessions teachers protested that the methods used when being observed were a product of the artificiality of the situation and that in some cases pupils seemed to be reluctant to participate orally when advisers were present .
17 As it was , people felt left in the dark about what the weighty causes of such an unusual step might have been , and remained worried about the seriousness of the situation in the east and that in the Reich itself ‘ something is not right ’ , suggesting conflict in the leading positions within the Wehrmacht and dissatisfaction of the Führer with prominent figures at home , whose life-style did not match the gravity of the times .
18 Thomas Carter came right out and told you that he thought England was the only truly civilized country in the world and that as the most English of English cities , Oxford was its heart and soul , the core of everything that had formed us , the repository of our values and the guarantor of our standards , an expression in stone of our whole Western civilization , a cultural Stonehenge which , etc , etc .
19 It may be that they have been without God and alone and lost in the world and that through the preaching of the word they have become Christians .
20 The ‘ supply ’ curve is constructed from the relationship between and shown in the left-hand part of the diagram and that between and ( not shown ) .
21 S said that she needed the car to take her family to the airport and that in any case they were only abroad for one week out of two , so she would need the car again on her return .
22 He explained that in each case ( including that of teachers ) the charge would be on the cost to the employer of providing the services and that in each case that cost would either be nil or very small .
23 In 1976 , Australia , Canada , Fiji , New Zealand , Sri Lanka and Trinidad and Tobago expressed themselves , in response to a Questionnaire circulated by the Commonwealth Secretariat , as parties to the Conventions listed in the Table except that with Israel .
24 The lower portions of the inclined planes descend below the level of the water in the tail bays , and as the tanks on the downward run move down into the water until there is parity of level between the water in the tank and that in the bay , dock gates are unnecessary in these lower channels .
25 François de Callières , the French diplomat who wrote in the 1690s the best-known diplomatic manual of the period , pointed out that the cities of Bologna and Ferrara , now incorporated in the papal state , still sent " diplomatic deputations " to the pope and that in Spanish-ruled Sicily Messina , until the rising of 1674 there , had been able to send similar deputations to Madrid ; but he rightly saw these as unimportant hangovers from the past .
26 That is , they do this in every case except that of an exorcism ritual where the point is to make a deliberate display of violence and aggression , in the sense of ‘ intentionally causing suffering to another being ’ , to frighten the predatory spirits .
27 My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea .
28 Striped shirt tapped a gold pencil thoughtfully against his teeth and said that of course one had every respect for someone wishing to take such a stand and that in that case we must see what could be done with the portfolio as it was .
29 Back came the ‘ face furniture ’ which required no solutions except that of remembering to wear them .
30 Back came the ‘ face-furniture ’ which required no solutions except that of remembering to wear them .
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