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

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1 I notice that the Newcastle Journal has the headline ’ North-East bucks the trend with firms taking on more workers ’ , and I am sure that the hon. Member will be delighted that Vickers in his constituency , making the new tank , has excellent opportunities at home and export prospects abroad .
2 Chiefs of Staff of the armed forces of CIS member republics agreed on Aug. 18 that contacts between their defence ministries and the CIS joint armed forces headquarters should be strengthened .
3 This is an area of human emotion so fraught with difficulty that attitudes to it are poles apart .
4 To the extent that inclinations from my own viewpoint harmonize or conflict with yours , the interaction moves me in new directions for or against you and your goals , to sympathy or antipathy , love or hate , pity or cruelty , gratitude or revenge .
5 I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly .
6 Do you have any idea how extravagant that sister of mine is ?
7 WP Why is it that Czechoslovakia in its moments of crisis turns to scholars and writers ?
8 It appears that William on his deathbed confessed that he had indulged in a fraud in getting his marriage to Adelizia nullified and at the eleventh hour did all that he could for Mabel 's succession as his heir .
9 Alan Dysart , the outspoken junior Defence minister , yesterday insisted that attempts on his life would not deter him from denouncing those seeking to overthrow democracy in Northern Ireland … .
10 It was widely thought that discussions over his release had been the main obstacle in the talks between Meyer and Ramaphosa .
11 Judy our new Director will lead her team , of Simon , Richard and To and er Tony and I think it seems particularly er , appropriate and important that Judy at her first appearance here as Director , although many of us present , I know , would remember her wearing other hats , should have this opportunity of speaking the Councillor members and giving us some idea of how the Management Team see the future before us in the years to come .
12 continue unabated , fuelled by the fact that assessment of their performance and career prospects will be closely linked to their ability to be published in recognised journals .
13 Party workers claim that enthusiasm for him and his party is positively bubbling in Guisborough , but admitted that the campaign had been slower to get off the ground in other parts of Langbaurgh .
14 Others with equal cogency argue that damage to our health lies in our failure to take exercise , or in some form of faulty body co-ordination that constricts important pathways for our nerves , veins and arteries .
15 She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name .
16 Furthermore , in 58 patients rendered stone free with extra corporeal shock wave lithotripsy and adjuvant bile acids , Sackmann et al found that 100% of their patients with recurrent stones had symptoms .
17 As this is in fact used as the Parish Burial Ground and not restricted to members of St Peter 's church they feel that responsibility for its upkeep should not be left to a relatively small number of volunteers .
18 They were a pragmatic , brave , distrustful people who learned that responsibility for their continued existence lay exclusively in their own hands , that their ultimate fate depended solely upon their own determination and resources .
19 It is also hoped that improvements to our visitor facilities , including the provision of a new visitor centre and cafe , will be well advanced by then .
20 A jealous horse may resent hands that smell of its rival ; a greedy horse may be upset by empty hands that smell of food ; and an aggressive stallion may be made dangerous by hands that smell of other stallions or a mare in oestrus .
21 They take into themselves that judgement of what is unacceptable behaviour ( ‘ internalization ’ ) , a step on the road to forming a conscience .
22 And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions .
23 It will , for example , be essential to set a short time-scale to phase out any remaining specialist LMS implementation teams in order that personnel within thy whole authority can take on and experience the new culture required by devolved management and competition .
24 Every group who use sports facilities managed by their Local Authority should make sure that provision for their space is included in bid specifications .
25 Every group who use sports facilities managed by their Local Authority should make sure that provision for their space is included in bid specifications .
26 If a State concludes a treaty that conflicts with its obligations under an earlier treaty , other parties to the former treaty ( although third parties to the subsequent one ) can regard that State as remaining bound by its commitments to them .
27 It is certainly true that , when offered an explanation that conflicts with our beliefs , we can reject the explanation on the ground that , since our beliefs are true , it must be false .
28 One had a fairly strong feeling that part of their motivation was negative , in that it was to exclude the American participation , rather than positive — to build up the company .
29 Alternatively , they could seek to arrange their affairs so that part of their income is received on a self-employed basis , rather than being treated as overtime .
30 It is certainly true that they enact an awareness of the efficacy of penance which is at the very foundation of Christian spirituality ; but it also true that part of their potency depends on an understanding of the joy of " brennyng in loue ouur al thynge " when : The meditation on the Passion in Ego Dormio , on the other hand , engages directly with the experience of receiving such a gift .
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