Example sentences of "[noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at least the new developments should ease the diplomatic impasse that has kept relations between Japan and the Soviet Union frozen for 46 years . |
| 2 | Consider each impasse that you meet as a stepping stone along the path to eventual happiness and fulfilment . |
| 3 | In any event , the rules should provide a means of resolving any impasse that does arise . |
| 4 | Like my hon. Friends the Members for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) and for Leeds , North-West , I must now advise the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside that a revaluation would be bad news for Wales . |
| 5 | I made an offer to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside that he may well recall . |
| 6 | Whatever they were , she had ‘ caught ’ the Emperor of the French who was determined to disprove the gibe of his cousin Prince Napoleon that ‘ one does not marry Mademoiselle de Montijo ’ . |
| 7 | The trial only revealed Godoy 's political and moral isolation and convinced Napoleon that these ‘ dirty intrigues ’ made either faction an impossibly unreliable ally . |
| 8 | Thirdly , it includes most aspects of the study of principles of language usage , for there seems to be a general principle of the following kind : for each systematic set of constraints on the use of language , there will be a corresponding set of inference-procedures that will be applied to language understanding ( see Levinson , 1979a ) . |
| 9 | The Slovak Prime Minister , Jan Carnogursky , confirmed a statement he made in an interview with the French paper Libération that Slovakia aimed to be in the European Communities as an independent state by 2000 . |
| 10 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 11 | Gradually , the state of anticipation at Ballingolin began to subside like an inflated pig 's bladder that has a slow leak . |
| 12 | The answer to this question lies in the complex problem of whether there is ever a role for retaining the gall bladder in the presence of stones , and whether it is the gall bladder that is the cause of the stones such that recurrence of stones is inevitable . |
| 13 | We found that sodium nitroprusside given before CCK produced a shiftin the pressure dose-response curve of the gall bladder that was opposite to that produced by the NO synthase inhibitors . |
| 14 | ’ I shouted merrily , beginning to experience an ache somewhere near my bladder that I sometimes get when things are going particluarly badly and I ca n't see any way out . |
| 15 | Manners that have gone by the board |
| 16 | He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older , bygone age . |
| 17 | I was not wearing any special clothes , but this lady — she was from an old Lucknow family could see by my manners that I was not a common person . ’ |
| 18 | Such a change from the predictable pleasantries and good manners that some people feel they have to indulge in . ’ |
| 19 | Has the Liberal party broken a convention , or was it merely a display of bad manners that they left the Chamber immediately after their spokesman had finished ? |
| 20 | The physics and cosmology that provided the framework in which this astronomy was set was basically that developed by Aristotle in the fourth century B.C. In the second century A.D. , Ptolemy devised a detailed astronomical system that specified the orbits of the moon , the sun and all the planets . |
| 21 | These , then , are the bare bones of the Aristotelian mechanics and cosmology that were presupposed by contemporaries of Copernicus , and which were utilized in arguments against a moving earth . |
| 22 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
| 23 | — where ‘ Trinacria ’ , the ancient Greek name for Sicily , is related to the legend of how Vulcan the divine smith , somewhere in the island , solved the problem of perpetual motion , by a wheel with three dogleg spokes , its never ceasing to roll recalling the wheel that was the hellish and interminable torment of Ixion . |
| 24 | The little brick-built mill has an internal iron wheel that provides the power for the two sets of stones as well as the various ancillary equipment . |
| 25 | It was afternoon — the morning had gone on Crabb Robinson — which meant that all the ample , high , soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent 's desk , ensphered by the Catalogue , were taken , and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between these spokes . |
| 26 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 27 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 28 | His hands shake ant his balance is cruelly uncertain , a fly wheel that has lost its rhythm . |
| 29 | Well , I 'll be a very small cog in the wheel that 's trying to stamp it all out . ’ |
| 30 | This time it 's Murray Mouse : Supercop that comes up for a lump of cheese and a quick spin on the squeaky exercise wheel that keeps the whole house awake at night . |