Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Gradually , the state of anticipation at Ballingolin began to subside like an inflated pig 's bladder that has a slow leak . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ’ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | — 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His hands shake ant his balance is cruelly uncertain , a fly wheel that has lost its rhythm . |
| 19 | Well , I 'll be a very small cog in the wheel that 's trying to stamp it all out . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 'll do it oh wheel that , Andrew wheel this buggy round will you . |
| 22 | It 's a funny wheel that funny wheel for it . |
| 23 | It therefore seems to the logical residents of our borough that there was a swing in Southend from the Liberal Democrats to both Conservative and to Labour . |
| 24 | Moore is also the man who holds fixedly to the belief that it is solely because he lives in a Labour borough that his pavements have broken and cracked paving-stones . |
| 25 | Expelled from the Commons as a result of giving false statements , he was returned unopposed in 1734 for Great Grimsby , a venal borough that had elected other disreputable financiers and in which Sutton owned considerable property . |
| 26 | Erm Harrogate er is a borough that 's enjoyed an enormous er growth in prosperity and economic activity during the erm exciting er yuppie years of Mrs Thatcher the mid eighties and erm er was indeed one of the I think one of the most wealthy boroughs , one of the highest economic activity rate levels , the Civic Society tell us in their papers it was paying the highest rates and all these sort of indicators , but with as so much of that period it turned out to be er a bubble and a chimera and er the borough has experienced some very severe erm er closures in recent years . |
| 27 | There have been many Western and Soviet studies of religious belief per se , and of the interaction in Soviet history between an atheist regime and a highly religious peasantry , but scant reference is made to socio-economic views and actions derived from religion that had ultimate political repercussions . |
| 28 | They not infrequently turn for some answers to the religion that they may have been introduced to in the past but have long since rejected . |
| 29 | Yet Christianity is a religion that has always been open to rational criticism when its critics have been granted the freedom to make their challenge known . |
| 30 | But Christianity is the only religion that makes it clear that only one god exists . |