Example sentences of "to the [adj] [noun] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer especially to the Sessional Order that deals with witnesses to the House . |
| 2 | In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge . |
| 3 | This is quite close to the empirical results that suggest a ‘ flypaper ’ effect . |
| 4 | The question is whether UN agencies can form a check-and-balance to the multinational corporation that has yet to admit that profit is not ( quite ) enough to control activities affecting millions of lives . |
| 5 | Virginsky will always belong to the Petrashevsky Circle of Dostoevsky 's own youth , as well as to the ill-assorted group that dances to Verkhovensky 's tune in the late 1860s . |
| 6 | Even this limited warfare showed the most independent-minded of the colonists that the English connection had some practical uses , and the English government did its best to live up to the implicit bargain that lay behind the Navigation Acts . |
| 7 | The older generation is faithful to the time-honoured values that represent a suitable marriage as the goal for all young women . |
| 8 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading pupils should be introduced to the complex regularity that underlies the spelling of words with inflectional endings , eg bead-ing , bead-ed , bed-d-ing , bed-d-ed. ( iv ) Teaching should encourage discussion of the range of vocabulary , eg from informal to formal , everyday to specialist , its use in different settings and for different purposes and the effect of particular choices of words , eg the kinds of topics slang is used for ; the situations in which slang is used ; the need for specialist terms and the effects of their use outside the specialist group . |
| 9 | The Whole Curriculum ( 1975 ) and The Practical Curriculum ( 1981 ) both sought to alert teachers to the complex issues that have to be taken into account in whole curriculum planning , but both eschewed the provision of ready-made answers . |
| 10 | What is certain is that for countless ages the greatest mountain range on earth will continue to form an impenetrable barrier to the terrestrial animals that live north and south of it . |
| 11 | shrew mandible from tawny owl assemblage showing perforation of the ascending ramus but no damage to the bar-like structure that supports it ( ×10 ) ; J. enlargement of the same ( ×38 ) ; K. advanced breakage of a shrew mandible from red kite assemblage leaving just the supporting structures of the ascending ramus ( ×9 ) ; L. partial loss of ascending ramus of a shrew mandible from a little owl assemblage ( ×8 ) ; M. mole mandible from red kite assemblage ( ×8 ) ; N. shrew mandible from small-spotted genet assemblage ( ×8 ) . |
| 12 | For the latter , the term God is the main religious symbol for the Ground of Being while , for the former , God is the name we give to the mysterious power that pervades the universe and not a symbol in the Tillichian sense . |
| 13 | Mainstream work did not refer at all to the potential role of minority languages in the curriculum , nor to the major debates that have taken place in this area . |
| 14 | The Civil Justice Review , on examining the arguments , recognised the need to assist people who do not qualify for legal aid funding , drew attention to the major advances that had been made in regulation policy so as probably to be able to control a contingency fee system and , on the basis of competition policy , considered whether it would be more desirable to devise more limited schemes under which lawyers would have a stake in the outcome of a case as an incentive . |
| 15 | It gives the lie to the real relationship that exists between the Labour party and the trade unions , and that will not go unnoticed . |
| 16 | She rightly notes that students are not entitled to any income support from the Department of Social Security during the summer vacation and she points to the real problems that exist in areas of high unemployment , such as Gateshead and on Tyneside in general , where students , whom the Government urge to take on part-time or full-time jobs during their vacation , simply do not find those jobs available . |
| 17 | All the finalists represent exciting projects , and all employ the highest technology in finding solutions to the real problems that face the car . |
| 18 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 19 | If its editors can elicit combative prose from a wider range of directors , future editions could yet provide an antidote to the star-struck hype that makes up most of what is written about the movies . |
| 20 | QRAM can exploit these capabilities and give you access to the unused RAM that sits between 640Kb and 1,024Kb . |
| 21 | Can you imagine a worse fate than being condemned to listen to the endless trivia that surround most criminal prosecutions ? |
| 22 | The sharp reductions in prices to the middle-sized customers that have occurred in the 12 months since the new market system came into effect have naturally been greeted by the beneficiaries with satisfaction , but the strategists worry over the implications for the long- term health of the industry and the economy . |
| 23 | This point is made not in the interests of pedantry , but because it bears directly on the criticisms of current approaches to the global system that lie at the heart of this book . |
| 24 | Still dazed , Mrs Lomax put the car into gear and drove slowly in a semi-circle , back to the rough track that led away from the Monument . |
| 25 | 24 Thus , by maintaining in 1927 that O'Keeffe 's art was not emotional , McBride was the first to offer a direct and unqualified challenge to the Stieglitz-generated idea that had dominated the earlier criticism . |
| 26 | This , Schell et al. believe , may one day facilitate the production of crop plants that have an inbuilt resistance to the specific insects that feed on them . |
| 27 | River boats brought wool to Rawcliffe from the West Riding , transferring their cargoes to the sea-going vessels that took the wool abroad . |
| 28 | And ( b ) rigged prices lead to the dumped surpluses that distort world trade ; so the goal is to move the EC 's intervention prices down towards world-market ones — down , as a minimum , towards what a truly efficient European farmer can survive on . |
| 29 | Stocky , adaptable and full of vim , Mark has all the hallmarks of the bona fide allrounder , wielding a stubborn blade in addition to the accurate seam-up that has already seen more than one class act tumble before a shrewdly concealed slower ball . |
| 30 | This electrical activity predicts the occurrence of the conditioned eyeblink to the tone but it is unrelated to the reflex eyeblink that occurs in response to the air puff . |