Example sentences of "[adj] [that] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To begin with the efficacy of parliamentary control , it is clear that it suffers from the federal constitution itself : the intricacy of policy decisions , complex inter-governmental decision-making structures at the national , sub-national and supranational level , and the inherent complexity of new policy areas , have all made parliamentary scrutiny more difficult . |
| 2 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |
| 3 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 4 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 5 | Transmission across the callosum takes time and necessitates crossing at least one synaptic junction , during which the information is said to undergo some degree of transformation such that it arrives at the second hemisphere in a comparatively degraded state ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ; Gross , 1972 ; Gibson , Dimond and Gazzaniga , 1972 ) . |
| 6 | As a strongly international business it is more appropriate that it appears beside the Big Four rather than with the British consultancies . |
| 7 | If the choleretic response to feeding is mediated by a vago-bagal reflex , then it is likely that it relays in the solitary tract nucleus in the brainstem , which is the first relay nucleus for all afferent bisceral sensation . |
| 8 | We can rely neither on what it says about the state of the economy nor on the little that it reveals about the state of the public finances . |
| 9 | If one is brave enough to try the draft out on critical , expert colleagues , one can be reasonably sure that what emerges at the end will be free of double questions , ambiguities , leading questions , and so on , and the helpful colleagues , in pretending to be informants , will also probably have thought up some difficult-to-classify answers too . |
| 10 | It is much better if the player knows subconsciously all the time where the clubhead is and makes sure that it gets to the ball at the same moment as the hands — a similar position as when at address . |
| 11 | The movies tackled society on the broadest front and refused to be confined to any one social zone but for all that one senses from the trade papers and social surveys that the industry had become preoccupied with its fashionable down-town audiences and that the super-cinemas were thought of as the social cutting edge of the trade . |
| 12 | In chapter nine Rolle writes a prose-poem about the efficacy of a prayer in which the Holy Name is a focus for all that he understands about the process of redemption . |
| 13 | One way of perceiving this progression is as the struggle of the poet to come to terms with the nature of creativity , drawing on all that he sees in the imagery of lines 12–22 until the attainment of maturity in the ‘ momently ’ of line 24 , when he reaches a state of oneness with his environment and is free to channel its flow into works of art . |
| 14 | A proper focus and clarity of purpose , abroad as at home , are all that anyone asks of the man from Arkansas . |
| 15 | In the American flickers , close cousins to woodpeckers , the tongue is so long that it extends beyond the eye-socket into the upper beak , entering through the right nostril so that the bird can only breathe through its left . |
| 16 | However , as it diverts resources from historical and current expenditure items and therefore continuing provision , it is essential that it rests on the establishment of carefully planned priorities which are important to the school 's development . |
| 17 | I see well it 's convenient that it comes at the end of a week 's holiday is n't it ? |
| 18 | This is a clear example of the third basic kind of doubt , a kind so common that it qualifies as the twentieth-century doubt par excellence . |
| 19 | In addition , the charge may be so all-embracing that it confers on the chargee as a matter of fact the exclusive right to supply the debtor company with credit . |
| 20 | Violent heat , so intense that it lingers on the hand after touching the patient 's skin . |