Example sentences of "[noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Manners that have gone by the board |
| 3 | He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older , bygone age . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Such a change from the predictable pleasantries and good manners that some people feel they have to indulge in . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | The force field around him is filled , not with the echoes of computer keys tapping and the fall-out from easy patter , but with the flickering after-images that are the legacy of a living icon and a once-great player . |
| 8 | How else could we have appreciated the dangers of ocean pollution , the extraordinary risks that are being taken with nuclear waste ? |
| 9 | Thors was a small price to pay for the risks that Britain would be running by having American missiles deployed in her crowded islands . |
| 10 | During his tours of the Middle and Far East Duncan Sandys was made well aware by British Governors , High Commissioners and Commanders-in-Chief of the political and military risks that he was taking ; and local political leaders , like the Tunku Abdul Rahman in Malaya and Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore , warned him of the dangers of creating power vacuums that could be exploited by the Communist powers . |
| 11 | If there must be a parting , Britain would continue to honour her side of the Anglo-American nuclear understandings : Holy Loch and the Fylingdales radar station would still be available to the United States ; RAF bases would continue to house US bombers ; and Britain would carry on accepting the risks that all this entailed . |
| 12 | Of all the risks that face the world economy over the next few months , the most easily avoidable is this threat of trade war . |
| 13 | These economic Robespierres have got the policy initiative partly because they are ready to take risks that others balk at . |
| 14 | Neither should they encourage Soviet people , in the Baltic states or elsewhere , to take risks that they would not otherwise take . |
| 15 | This was concealed up to now by a few intuitive master strokes , the lucky results of risks that were in themselves unjustified , and the short-comings of our enemies . |
| 16 | They were not risks that Mario cared to take . |
| 17 | ‘ The expected national economic benefits are sufficient to justify the risks that would be incurred , ’ Layfield concluded . |
| 18 | If the mother objects to abortion on moral or religious grounds , the tests are virtually pointless , and certainly not worth the additional risks that they raise . |
| 19 | As a result of this misunderstanding , for three hundred years sufferers from gonorrhoea were treated with mercury with all the risks that that entailed . |
| 20 | But for good measure we added extra benefits to ensure that the policy is right for the risks that householders face today . |
| 21 | ‘ There must be risks that there could be moves afoot in the not too distant future for the closure of the Petersfield Court . |
| 22 | While they may not alter the actual risks that something will happen , they at least inspire the feeling that such events are not entirely outside the hunter 's control . |
| 23 | On the other hand , there are clearly risks that most people find unacceptable . |
| 24 | All the same , there may be one or two risks that the Royal Society 's Group have not taken into account . |
| 25 | Mrs Martin , 38 , says doctors failed to warn her of the risks that her sterilisation operation might not work forever . |
| 26 | The employer 's main duties are to assess display screen equipment workstations and reduce any risks that are discovered ; ensure that workstations satisfy minimum requirements in terms of the display screen itself , the keyboard , desk and chair , working environment and task design and software ; plan work on display screen equipment so that the user has breaks or changes of activity ; and to provide information and training for display equipment users . |
| 27 | She had known the risks that the average cigarette shortens life by seven minutes , and smoking takes six years off the average life . |
| 28 | The creation of a captive insurance company may enable the group to save on premiums and to cover risks that their normal insurers do not ( eg excess claims ) . |
| 29 | In this leaflet we want to explain the low risks that lesbians face from HIV and how to keep it that way by practising safer sex and safer drug use . |
| 30 | Instead of seeking opportunities to come clean , being realistic and perceptive about when and to whom to make an ‘ advance ’ , and taking risks that can be recouped , self-doubt floods the whole question with anxiety , and replaces a balanced point of view with crude prejudices and images of disaster . |