Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | How else would I be able to think of states of affairs that are merely possible ? |
| 2 | What the Commission has to do now there is a new article in the Maastricht treaty is to ensure that its practice complies with it and that it does not encourage the drafting of legislation or the working out of projects on matters that can perfectly well be dealt with by member states , or even closer to the citizen , and that applies to English and French cheeses . |
| 3 | And the sort of operations of course that are capable of being put on a computer . |
| 4 | Even so , the abnormal number of requests for references that poured in from provincial and oversea banks was bound to set him wondering . |
| 5 | Although the proportion of phosphates in sewage that comes from detergents and cleaning materials is quite low , switching to phosphate-free products can help . |
| 6 | The model tends to overestimate the prices of calls on securities that have volatile returns and underestimate the call values of those with non-volatile returns . |
| 7 | So the 46% of houses in Barnet that the government reckons will be in the top band will all pay the same amount , irrespective of their value . |
| 8 | A very strong impression , even now , is of a lack of diversity in the planning and delivery of activities in ways that may not be in the best interests of the children . |
| 9 | He was deeply influenced by German idealism and sought the kind of patterns in Nature that were typical of that school of thought . |
| 10 | For example , the probable universal existence of tag-questions ( under a functional definition ) can perhaps be related to the universal operation of rules of turn-taking that allow as one option the ending of current speaker 's turn by a selection of a next speaker . |
| 11 | Just as organizations develop a set of rules for documents that are delivered through the postal service they will develop rules for documents delivered electronically ’ ( Truller 1993 ) . |
| 12 | If the advantages of decentralization of decision making are to be preserved , firms must be able to operate within a set of rules for competition that enable them to identify what strategies are likely to attract scrutiny , and what strategies they can pursue without hindrance . |
| 13 | During the hundred fifty years in question , there was so great a diversity of views about nature that , on closer inspection , it becomes difficult to achieve a succinct characterization . |
| 14 | Examples of pairs of verbs that describe an event from different perspectives in English include give/get and like/please . |
| 15 | One of the results of this difference is that such accents have different pronunciations for the two members of pairs of words that are pronounced identically ( i.e. are homophones ) in RP , e.g. ‘ won ’ and ‘ one ’ , ‘ nun ’ and ‘ none ’ . |
| 16 | Perhaps our common reason is not any prediction about the number of cases of injustice that the checkerboard strategy would produce or prevent , but our conviction that no one should actively engage in producing what he believes to be injustice . |
| 17 | That the propriety of expenditure is premised on the possibility of an eventual return to the shareholders is , however , made starkly apparent in a number of cases concerning companies that are ceasing to trade . |
| 18 | With me it is the sound of groups of bars that form a phrase . |
| 19 | I think that , more , not sort of say a general question like that , but say that after the collection has happened that you want returns for the number of people in Oxford that have benefited from the number of groups in Oxford that have benefited . |
| 20 | This general tendency in soil conservation evaluation derives from similar problems identified by critics of the existing approaches to agricultural research , namely the lack of a continuous outreach to and from research stations and farmers , and the conducting of programmes under conditions that do not exist for the farmer/pastoralist who is supposed to adopt them ( Biggs 1981 ) . |
| 21 | The trio are specifying a common set of definitions for messages that can be shared among CASE tools including messages for debugging , browsing , analysis and design , editing and version management . |
| 22 | The point is not that we in any way deliberately do down the intelligence of animals — although we do this as well — but that it is hard for us to imagine the workings of forms of intelligence that have evolved to cope with environmental circumstances different from our own . |
| 23 | Even if ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) are true , then this book may yet turn out to be one of the minority of books on philosophy that is not boring . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got a couple of books on marketing that you could read . |
| 25 | It 's a problem that so enraged Martin Cutts of Words at Work that he took up a challenge to rewrite one . |
| 26 | Returning now to the context of a church planting team , it will not be such national pronouncements that are being sought : rather it is the expression of words from God that build up the individuals listening . |
| 27 | Learned behaviour in any particular society includes those ideas , techniques and habits which are passed on by one generation to another — in a sense , a social heritage — and which are virtually a set of solutions to problems that , in the course of time , others have met and solved before . |
| 28 | Hence it would seem both helpful and important to examine a number of aspects of work that industrial sociology has highlighted as critical in the explanation of job satisfaction . |
| 29 | They steam through two strident , intelligent covers of songs by Erasure that show just how great Clarke and Bell 's debt to Abba has always been . |
| 30 | On that occasion the member of parliament openly told the meeting of commissioners of supply that ‘ as he look't on the representing this shire to be hereditary in some measure in their family , soe he look't on the appointing the collector to be a consequentiall priviledge of it , and he would take ill any opposition given to him ’ . |