Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an earnestness about them that no Tory can understand . |
| 2 | These areas are of vital importance as it is through them that the majority of people experience ‘ the countryside ’ at first hand , whether for formal or informal recreation . |
| 3 | A parody and a paradox : it is by their very inertia in the ways of the social laid out for them that the masses go beyond its logic and its limits , and destroy its whole edifice . |
| 4 | It was for them that the vision of a transformation in political , social and economic relationships held greatest appeal . |
| 5 | The hope is to set up groups across Scotland to discuss health issues on a local level and it is for them that the recruitment drive has been started . |
| 6 | There had never been any doubt between them that the University of Glasgow would accept Paul , and this happened in time for him to make his arrangements ; but meanwhile there was something else . |
| 7 | Inclusion of the word " federal " , which the UK government insisted had connotations in English , if not in other EC languages , of a " superstate " was described by the Independent of June 18 as " effectively the price being demanded of Britain , incidentally also of France , for insisting between them that the two main new areas for common action — foreign and security policies and judicial affairs — should be kept separate from the traditional EC constitutional structure as laid down in the Treaty of Rome [ see pp. 15951-59 ] " . |
| 8 | ‘ I want this country to be so proud of me that the Queen will give me one of her crowns . |
| 9 | It was perfectly clear to all four of them that the forensic skills , the intellectual abilities , the sheer weight of grey cellular matter , the brutalizing experience of countless similar quests , possessed by the real experts was infinitely greater than that of the mere professionals . |
| 10 | There were so many of them that the strain of trying to recognise each one started to give him a headache . |
| 11 | The rats were hanging from the rope , and there were so many of them that the rope was swinging backwards and forwards . |
| 12 | It 's the part of you that the world ca n't accept . |
| 13 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and she felt as though he was seeing right into her soul , into bits of her that no one had ever seen before . |
| 14 | Jack Butler was almost ugly when he was angry ; it was a side of him that the many thousands of women who watched racing only to catch a glimpse of him never saw . |
| 15 | Piggy 's glasses became the only part of him that the boys were glad to have — as they lit the fire . |
| 16 | As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had . |
| 17 | It 's always been around in comic culture , but as cynical publishers try to cash in on the success of Howard Chaykin 's gross Black Kiss , there 's so much of it that the powers that be have noticed . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's nothin' wrong with any of us that a cup of hot tea and a ciggie wo n't put right . ’ |
| 19 | Regrettably , it seems to some of us that a large proportion of the World Cup referees ‘ chickened out ’ of difficult and contentious decisions when they involved more powerful and vocal countries , but did n't hesitate to punish the lesser countries e.g. Calder 's butt and the Argentina v W. Samoa punch-up . |
| 20 | He 's really dealing with that whole idea of the image of the self and the reflection in the water being much bigger and more interesting to all of us that the reality of who Jeff Koons is , ’ Rifkin says . |
| 21 | He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King . |
| 22 | Other than that , I would hope this meeting do agree on the recommendations of us that the road is accepted |
| 23 | I think it was a pathetic spectacle and what the papers we have in front of us that the Labour party have prepared does n't say are their achievements , I am not surprised they have tried to hide . |
| 24 | Again , it is unbelievable to an ordinary Rottweiler fanatic like me that a dog of this quality could be bought . |
| 25 | It was with this kind of experience of rapidly changing war behind them that the English began their long conflict against France . |
| 26 | And they did n't leave the fumes behind them that an engine might have done . |
| 27 | It was fairly obvious from the noise coming from behind me that the man in question did remember him fairly clearly . |
| 28 | Now it will be obvious to an incisive mind like yours that the existence of the Counterweight Continent poses a deadly threat to our people here — ’ he paused , looking at Rincewind 's open mouth . |
| 29 | David Blunkett , shadow health secretary , said that he made a speech three weeks ago with very good evidence behind him that the Government was going to engage in redefinition of ‘ nursing care ’ once a patient 's surgery had been completed . |
| 30 | And I think it 's close enough to looking like it that the public may believe it , and I hope the public wo n't believe it , but certainly I 'm not prepared to allow them to think it of me , and therefore I will vote against the motion . |