Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be revealed the incredible amount of effort which in the name of ‘ god ’ , has been expended on all those evil things that it should be the objective of the kind of religion that the human race hungers for , to banish from the face of the earth . |
| 2 | it 's not a reflex action that the Labour Party somehow engages in , but there are things that we need to rave raise revenue for , such as investment in the economy , like our social policies , and that the way that we will raise revenue is that we we will have a fair taxation system , that is very straightforward , and agreed by the Party , unlike the Conservatives who firstly do n't recognize there is any purpose in investment in the economy , public investment , or investment in social policies they do n't agree with , and secondly , when they do have to raise money they do it in the unfairest possible way , penalizing most those who can least |
| 3 | It was perhaps with the expectation that food rioting sometimes secured short-term remedy that the eighteenth-century crowd resorted to it so frequently . |
| 4 | When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation . |
| 5 | The typical business card that the non-Japanese businessman should have will have the Japanese translation of the individual 's name on one side , along with his company , its address and the person 's title . |
| 6 | It is only when the friends of the deaf demand a better deal that the deaf will get it . |
| 7 | he contends , America did not maintain a permanent arms economy due to the desire to reduce unemployment ; it was because of a real perception that the Soviet Union was a threat to the West . |
| 8 | ‘ There is a popular perception that the monetary authorities dictate the general level of interest rates , and of course it is true that we are able to exert a very considerable influence on it . |
| 9 | Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better . |
| 10 | The numerical growth of states participating in the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1970s reinforced the Soviet perception that the global ‘ correlation of forces ‘ was shifting away from the West and that Western-sponsored multilateral military alliances and alignments in the Third World were fragmenting or weakening . |
| 11 | A key factor behind the superficial perception that the new arrivals are ‘ taking jobs ’ from West Germany 's 1.8million unemployed is that West German workers are less mobile and flexible . |
| 12 | There is a popular perception that the modern family has become a problem , that increasingly the family renounces its former responsibilities towards the care and maintenance of older relatives . |
| 13 | At the start , this strategy was to show the electorate that the Prime Minister was ‘ a very nice person ’ , tell them of the horrors of Labour 's tax policies and hope that in the twinkling of Mr Heseltine 's eye — aided by the applause of some celebrities and a giant ( and inexplicably awful ) stage set — the Conservatives would be back in government . |
| 14 | Tony Wedd taught me to spot them as possible ley markers , and the sight of a clump or an individual pine standing alone on a ridge still fills me with excitement , perhaps a resonance with the ancient traveller to whom such a sight meant the security and guidance that the straight tracks provided . |
| 15 | For example , five levels of management were cut ; this development sent a message to the work force that the required reductions were not to take place only at the lower levels of the hierarchy . |
| 16 | And then something was coughed out of that blackened spot with a sound like liquid choking ; coughed out from a hole where there was no hole , with such force that the jumbled shape landed with a slap on the corridor floor , five feet from the wall . |
| 17 | He brought his talons and beak down on the bars with such force that the very Cages themselves shook with the power of it . |
| 18 | It is only with thought , practice and feedback that the necessary skills can be acquired . |
| 19 | SUICIDE was thought damnable in the Middle Ages , and I expect there are those who have been brought to feel by a book called The Monument that the Middle Ages had a point . |
| 20 | When Soviet doctors carried out the autopsy on Hitler 's partially burned body they could only find one testicle , lending credence to the popular wartime ditty that the German dictator was indeed deficient in this intimate area . |
| 21 | But they seem to conclude from women 's and men 's different areas of ego investment that the gender-divided methodologies used to discover this should be perpetuated . |
| 22 | The LEA budget can not match the sort of investment that the fast food marketing chains make but , in promoting healthy eating , we can copy the best of their relatively inexpensive marketing and presentation techniques and use them to our advantage . |
| 23 | But Mr Miller 's letter explicitly reminds the president that the United Nations ‘ does not commit , or authorise , the use of United States armed forces . ’ |
| 24 | The strong showing of the two environmental parties — the Greens and Ecology Generation — who clearly benefited from a haemorrhage of votes from the socialists , must have convinced the President that the old party pulled together by him in 1971 and still led by its familiar herd of ‘ pink elephants ’ was doomed . |
| 25 | District councillors are under no illusion that the extra cash they are providing is enough to solve the problem entirely . |
| 26 | The windowpanes rattled furiously , and spidery fingers of crepitating electricity twitched and danced over the glass once more ; again creating the illusion that the entire office block was somehow enmeshed in some monstrous spider 's web . |
| 27 | In order to maintain the illusion that the Indian Union , though a republic in form as well as in reality , remained nevertheless part of the same political entity as the United Kingdom , the British in effect abolished their monarchy itself . |
| 28 | I am under no illusion on that score , he wrote , I am under no illusion that the big glass will in an instant blow all that away , flatten the critics against the walls , tear paintings from their places , bring the galleries tumbling to the ground . |
| 29 | It is an illusion that the Arctic is dark in winter . |
| 30 | No one considering the outcome could continue under the illusion that the co-operative form of organisation , as it is recognised in the west , can exist in any country the political constitution of which is modelled on the Soviet Russian derivative from Marxism . |