Example sentences of "[that] [adv] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While appreciating the need to continue good exporting conditions for this major Scottish commodity , one could argue that perhaps much of the tax revenue goes straight back into the system to treat those many people who suffer from alcohol misuse or abuse ( not just whisky , of course ) . |
| 2 | Note that only some of the additional text rows created by lexicographic activity in the Working-Set are copied back to the Main Database . |
| 3 | A high failure rate ensures that only those with the right aptitude for the job eventually make it to the Company . |
| 4 | Looking at the audience , you may find that only those in the first five rows are alert and interested — the next five rows are straining forward , probably frowning , while the people in the back of the hall have given up and are doing their best to hide the fact that they are nodding off . |
| 5 | Until the move in the 1860s to a new building with adequate space , it was dispersed on shelves scattered all over the old one , with the books crowded three rows deep on the shelves so that only those in the front row were visible , and no catalogue of it existed . |
| 6 | As a mother I warm to someone who observes that so many of the modern theories on childcare ‘ show utter contempt for women 's judgement ’ , and who points out that , when it comes to smacking , ‘ if we were talking about any other activity which was so widespread , people would say this was a method which was tried and tested and obviously worked . |
| 7 | ‘ The Catholic Church … was unique among the larger religious bodies by the fact that so many of the most devout were drawn from the working-class and even from the poor . ’ |
| 8 | AN OXFORDSHIRE reader expresses astonishment that so many of the hotels featured in this column border on Fawlty Towers . |
| 9 | City teachers , even the most experienced , are so accustomed to mobility , access to transport and social competence in getting around that they are continually surprised to find that so many of the children they teach lead lives confined to a few streets . |
| 10 | The fact that so many of the balances are associated with graves-goods dating from c . |
| 11 | It 's sad that so many of the people I 'm interested in are no longer around . |
| 12 | It is no wonder that so many of the small northern birds have to raise large broods of young , just to maintain the status quo of the population . |
| 13 | It is no accident that so many of the latter — Wieland , Winckelmann , Lessing , Gottsched — disliked both him and Prussia . |
| 14 | Dame Sirith does not end with a brief moral in the way that so many of the French fabliaux do . |
| 15 | Firstly , I am tired of hearing from experts that so many of the world 's problems are insoluble : poverty , malnutrition , pollution , road accidents , bureaucracy , illiteracy , inflation … there are literally hundreds of such problems , and most of them are getting worse . |
| 16 | It occurred to me that so many of the people who influence our lives are people who have been unjustly treated . |
| 17 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 18 | The reason for this is that so much of the guesswork can be removed , certain weather conditions demand certain tactics . |
| 19 | It is for this reason that so much of the initial consultation is spent explaining the technique to the patient , answering all his questions and , hopefully , dissolving all his apprehensions . |
| 20 | In the knowledge that so much of the central and parochial planning has been based on these kinds of projections , many ministers want to ignore the evidence from the past and present , and work in the hope that God will do a new thing . |
| 21 | However you do the sums , the levy is clearly there to pay for history ; the Select Committee said it is ‘ indefensible that so much of the burden of discharging the pre-April 1990 liabilities should be placed on electricity consumers within one eight-year period ’ . |
| 22 | JC : I regret that so much of the spoken word is now cut . |
| 23 | Yet an analysis of the ideology behind the antipathy and prejudice displayed in racial nationalism , despite the fact that so little of the expression of such ideas was coherent or systematic , is important for three reasons . |
| 24 | It is symptomatic of the depressed state of industry that so few of the individuals interviewed had anything positive to say about their experiences . |
| 25 | Miss Logan observed several butterflies and numerous lizards , but was secretly disappointed that so few of the creatures which had descended from the Ark were manifesting themselves . |
| 26 | The fact that so few of the Crown 's powers were redefined in 1688 – 9 meant that neither the old conflicts between Court and Country , nor those between advocates of limited versus strong , autocratic monarchy , had reached any satisfactory resolution . |
| 27 | At a meeting with the Lords Lieutenant , it was recorded , ‘ many of them being so sick by this great fatigue , and out of all hopes of relief from His Majesty 's forces , absolutely refused to hold out any longer ’ , whereupon the city corporation , conscious that already some of the militia had disappeared over the walls and fearing further desertions , voted by 24 to 15 to capitulate . |
| 28 | The precise interpretation of correlation co-efficients depends upon the size of the data-sets employed , but , as a rule of thumb , a correlation of 0.7 indicates that approximately half of the variation in the set of test scores is attributable to real variations in the attribute being measured . |
| 29 | The success of a programme of captive-breeding for Brazilian capuchin monkeys has been diluted by the fact that hardly any of the primate 's natural habitat remains . |
| 30 | It is possible that nearly all of the outgassed volatiles have always been the result of recycling . |