Example sentences of "that [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appreciate that for justices the obligation to provide a reasoned judgment at the conclusion of an application under the Children Act 1989 is one that no doubt presents all sorts of practical difficulties , but inevitably the period during which they reserve should be kept to the minimum in accordance with the whole philosophy of the Act which seeks to abridge time for procedural steps . |
| 2 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
| 3 | However , tachistoscopic half-field studies with normal subjects suggest that for sinistrals the presence of familial left handedness reduces perceptual asymmetry for non-verbal as for verbal tasks ( Gilbert , 1977 ; Albert and Obler , 1978 ) or shifts the asymmetry in the direction opposite to that for dextrals ( Schmuller and Goodman , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | These two offices , coupled with the less formal influence Gloucester derived from his closeness to the king , ensured that for contemporaries the duke 's importance was national rather than purely regional . |
| 5 | These two offices , coupled with the less formal influence Gloucester derived from his closeness to the king , ensured that for contemporaries the duke 's importance was national rather than purely regional . |
| 6 | Baffling because it is all so new and strange , and exciting because it brings the first hint , the first distant suggestion that for women an independent economic identity is possible . |
| 7 | Alcohol affects women and men differently because of the way their bodies are made , so remember that for women the sensible drinking limits are lower . |
| 8 | Alcohol affects women and men differently because of the way their bodies are made , so remember that for women the sensible drinking limits are lower . |
| 9 | Consider , for example , the following extracts from recorded conversations , where the responses to an utterance indicate that for participants the utterance carried the implications ( or something like them ) indicated in brackets : ( 25 ) A : I could eat the whole of that cake [ implication : " I compliment you on the cake " ] B : Oh thanks ( 26 ) A : Do you have coffee to go ? [ implication : " Sell me coffee to go if you can " ] B : Cream and sugar ? ( ( starts to pour ) ) ( 27 ) B : Hi John A : How 're you doing ? |
| 10 | As a general point , however , if you plan your finances with a specific objective in view , you may find that against expectations a notion that first seemed impossible is actually affordable . |
| 11 | The coolies inside the fetid dens immediately began to stretch their stiffened limbs and drag themselves off their sodden mats , knowing that within minutes the cai would be among them flailing heavy staves to rouse the laggards . |
| 12 | McGregor ( 1960 ) argued that within organisations the style of management is also important in determining how an organisation operates . |
| 13 | It is indeed true that in word-pairs the B-word is often less frequently attested , more poetic , more esoteric than the A word . |
| 14 | The idea stems from the belief that in gnathostomes the mandibular arch is a serial homologue of the hyoid arch and the more posterior gill arches . |
| 15 | Chemists had abandoned the belief that in organisms the balance of affinities was different from that in the inorganic sphere ; they denied any vital force . |
| 16 | Roger led up and rightwards onto the ice and it was quickly apparent that in places the snow was lying directly over rock , with what ice there was insecurely bonded to the smooth slabs . |
| 17 | The sky was the way he liked it best and thought best suited to the terrain it overcast , piled with cloud in pillars and columns and towers and ramparts , so that in places the vapour seemed not insubstantial but composed of solid masonry . |
| 18 | Tempting , but the truth so far is that in equities the machines are n't quite making the required grade . |
| 19 | Petrie has shown that in moorhens the male 's fat reserves are important , and these are likely to be higher in small males . |
| 20 | Some recent experiments carried out by Corey Goodman in Stanford , California and his colleagues suggest that in insects a small group of pioneer cells may provide a labelled ‘ streetmap ’ along which the developing neurons can navigate by using a simple set of directions to locate their specific targets . |
| 21 | Our survey suggests that in outpatients the yield from barium enema examination is likely to be very low in patients in whom another cause of anaemia has been found . |
| 22 | An interesting difference is that in ants the workers are all sterile females , whereas in termites they are sterile males and sterile females . |
| 23 | There was no strapping on Nogai 's forearm , but Rostov supposed that on Tarvaras a sprain or a cracked bone could just as easily be referred to as a break , depending upon the state of medical knowledge . |
| 24 | I have noticed that on photographs the faces of women giving birth look remarkably alike . |
| 25 | He was the first to concede that on occasions a judge got it wrong to the extent that a sentence was passed which was wholly unacceptable . |
| 26 | It has been noted that on occasions the cremated bones are found in the urns in a small cluster as if placed there in a small bag . |
| 27 | This means that among women a relatively large amount of /a/ backing is more likely to be associated with a high level of integration into the network than is the case among men — a relationship analysed by Spearman 's Rank Order Correlation ( L. Milroy , 1987 : 155 ) . |
| 28 | A Home Office study in 1990 found that 20 per cent of sentenced prisoners have serious mental disorders and that among women the figure rose to 35 per cent . |
| 29 | When Boswell sought to establish a distinction between ‘ the licentiousness of a single woman , and that of a married woman ’ , Johnson intensified his analogy , comparing the loose single woman to a thief , and the randy married woman to a thief who first murders the victim , and says that among women the infection of licentiousness spreads from the single to the married . |
| 30 | These warriors in the shadows , the Special Air Service , created such havoc that at times a battalion of Iraqis — a thousand men — was chasing a group of just four or six soldiers . |