Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst such experimentation in community education may be small-scale it does provide the opportunity for adult education to demonstrate in microcosm the potential for change that inheres within the adult education framework , given the right political context . |
| 2 | Wellcome 's share price lost 85p in early dealing after news that trials of its anti-Aids drug , AZT , had shown it to be ineffective in treating the virus . |
| 3 | Parents are being warned not to be complacent after news that vaccinations against a deadly form of meningitis are to be introduced for children . |
| 4 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 5 | Welsh Office Minister Gwilym Jones acted after claims that photographs of a badly-beaten child were filed away for at least six years without being passed to police by social service workers . |
| 6 | Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Rewards on her total over one million dollars , for offences that range from felony bank robbery to first degree murder . |
| 8 | There is a narrow line between harness fund raising and commercial exploitation and within the thin financial margins that schools operate there may be a temptation to fudge issues and associate with producers and distributors of products that conflict with the school 's or parents ' values . |
| 9 | Technically , they did not qualify for the defence of provocation , but their cases are heart-rending and should evoke a change in attitude towards the type of defence that women in those circumstances can claim . |
| 10 | I have no pretensions to the type of expert knowledge of semiotics that students of linguistics will have . |
| 11 | It has been a particular source of worry that sales of the magazine have been so low ; in fact on the current issue we made a considerable loss which as a small Society is very difficult to cover . |
| 12 | The Conservative vote is an act of faith that springs from the fear of something worse . |
| 13 | The wind has died and now from the brooding world of the floor of the forest there burst from on high the calls of birds that cascade through the dense branches like the chimes of Chinese wind bells . |
| 14 | However , the range of meanings that members of society give to these activities , their purposes for marriage and procreation , are not directly observable . |
| 15 | There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce . |
| 16 | This poem uses lots of words that sound as if they ought to be proper words but are not . |
| 17 | However , it is also a big mistake to underestimate the strength of opposition that enthusiasm for , and participation in , change may encounter — and it is in Chapters 6 and 7 that we begin to turn our attention outwards to the social context . |
| 18 | It is an atavistic reaction , born partly of disappointment that decades of believing that infectious diseases are a danger past and partly from the underlying despair of those infected with HIV and the anger of the groups that represent them . |
| 19 | She laid great stress on these little courtesies , the formal acts of politeness that women in their emancipated state seemed to be in danger of losing . |
| 20 | curricula are very flexible and allow students to follow a course of study that appeals to their own interests . |
| 21 | That organisations as diverse as shipbuilding , meat processors , training agencies and hotels saw fit to participate must be encouraging and some degree of recognition that marketing as a business philosophy is making some impact on the Scottish psyche . |
| 22 | But it was in Cropper 's and Roscoe 's home town amongst liberal men of religion that agitation of the economic arguments had first substantially begun . |
| 23 | Scientists are using transmitters to track the movements and migrations of eiders that nest near Prudhoe Bay . |
| 24 | The excesses of Vathek do have some emulators — in Matthew Lewis 's The Monk ( 1796 ) , and even in the Victorian novels of Sheridan Le Fanu — but it is the polite feeling of Otranto that flourishes in the hugely popular Gothic novels of the Regency . |
| 25 | This is the wonder and delight of poetry that men from different centuries and far off countries meet in the transcendent . |
| 26 | Lucker holds my hand with the kind of grasp that men at sea learn as a last resort . |
| 27 | In his critical essay , A Full Enquiry into the True Nature of Pastoral ( 1717 ) , he examined many of the issues treated by Thomas Tickell and Alexander Pope [ qq.v. ] in the Guardian dispute of 1713 , and argued strongly on the side of Tickell that writers of pastorals should use imagery drawn from contemporary rural life . |
| 28 | The highly charged politics of national identity that have been occasioned by these developments have been transposed into a higher , shriller key by current concern over the appeal of a wide pan-European disposition tailored to the new range of possibilities that flow from tighter political and economic integration of the European Economic Community . |
| 29 | There is an inner sense of shame that results in a feeling of alienation from one 's own true self and from others . |
| 30 | Those who believe that such insistence would ‘ infringe civil liberties ’ should appreciate that this liberty is valueless if wise judgment is so impaired by lack of insight that sufferers from the underlying illness can use this liberty only to their detriment . |