Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset . |
| 2 | Thus the Paracelsians , who boasted that their account of creation as a process of chemical separation was the only legitimate interpretation of Genesis , incurred Bacon 's displeasure not only for their hijacking of the Bible , but also for the implication that knowledge of nature was in need of biblical support . |
| 3 | Pigs stood for the figures that lounge in the shaded wood of Manet 's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and Whistler 's mother was transformed into a black cow . |
| 4 | Pigs stood for the figures that lounge in the shaded wood of Manet 's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and Whistler 's mother was transformed into a black cow . |
| 5 | Even allowing for the probability that Time was no non-stop streamliner , faring ever forward at the same speed every day of creation , some fresh interruption of Nature must have occurred to explain its present serpentine course . |
| 6 | For example , Buttel and Flinn ( 1977 ) in a survey of Wisconsin residents found only weak support for the hypothesis that ruralism was more strongly associated with environmental ( ecological ) concern rather than agrarianism . |
| 7 | As for the supposition that psychoanalysis favours and furthers personal autonomy , I can find little evidence for it among either the analysts or the analysands whom I have known , unless by autonomy is meant a retreat into a private ( and invariably middle-class ) world of minor emotional fluctuations . |
| 8 | Interviews conducted by Tamar Pitch with members of the committee revealed that the campaign 's objectives included increasing public awareness of the issue of sexual assault and gaining recognition for the principle that violence against women was a serious offence . |
| 9 | There is some United States authority for the proposition that service on a person who does not understand the language of the document in question is not good service on want of due process grounds . |
| 10 | According to the applicants in the main proceedings , paragraph 13 of the judgment in the Pesca Valentia case [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 83 , 107 constitute a fair description of the effect of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 101/76 but no argument for the proposition that member states might define the conditions for registration without reference to basic principles of Community law . |
| 11 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 12 | " As for the evidence that cholera is spread in drinking water , there is , as Dr Dunstaple should be well aware , a considerable amount of evidence to support this view . |
| 13 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 14 | There is some evidence in Africa for the idea that uplift may precede volcanism since the Adamawa dome in the Cameroon region , which rises to elevations in excess of 2000 m , lacks evidence of recent volcanic activity . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was that which made her avid for the things that money could buy . |
| 16 | And this er oh dear what was the name of it , they had a special title for the man that sort of ran the stall as they called it for getting the coal out and he he chose who he wanted to go to work . |
| 17 | The Bishop believes in evolution , but can not believe that natural selection is an adequate explanation for the course that evolution has taken ( partly because , like many others , he sadly misunderstands natural selection to be " random " and " meaningless ' ) . |
| 18 | Whoever cares for his own safety is lost ; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake and for the Gospel that man is safe ( Mark 8:35 ) . |
| 19 | As for the slogan that man is master of his fate , no doubt it has its uses in combating a fatalism which could contract still further the limits within which he can influence the spontaneous by reason and will . |
| 20 | Assume for the moment that utility is not only cardinally measurable but also comparable between individuals . |
| 21 | Cases such as those discussed by Miller and Cohen provide evidence for the claim that holist explanations are sometimes autonomous in the sense that no individualist account serves to supplement them . |
| 22 | But it has one redeeming feature , for the claim that paperwork needs to be completed is used as an excuse to avoid other types of police work which are disliked even more . |
| 23 | So much for the claim that science does not involve causation . |
| 24 | For the Crown , Mr. Crystal submits that the issue involved in this appeal is a short point of construction and that there is simply no warrant for the suggestion that section 31 of the Act of 1968 embraces or was ever intended to embrace bankruptcy proceedings . |
| 25 | ( And so much , in any case , for the suggestion that Bishop gets preferential treatment from the Liberals . ) |
| 26 | As he stepped ashore , three RAF Hampden bombers made a low-level attack , placing their smoke bombs in so close a screen for the landing that phosphorus from a sheet of flame set fire to the Colonel 's tunic . |
| 27 | The May inquiry was told on June 15 by counsel for the Maguires that inspection of the records of the scientists involved in the forensic tests showed that a second series of tests on the hand swabs had been carried out and had proved negative . |
| 28 | Support for the view that remuneration schemes are designed to produce a particular outcome can be derived from the findings of Jensen and Murphy . |
| 29 | Lonrho itself is authority for the view that pursuit of naked self-interest by criminal means can never amount to conspiracy . |
| 30 | In other political states during the twentieth century , there has been strong support for the view that art should serve a social purpose . |