Example sentences of "and the [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this book we will be using the ‘ C-word ’ in these senses to refer to the present penal situation in England and Wales , albeit with slight embarrassment and the worry that it has been used so often and for so long that there is a danger that it may be losing its dramatic impact . |
| 2 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 3 | After all , the kinds of films that they wanted to see and the conditions that they were prepared to accept were now generally appreciated . |
| 4 | His comments were useful because they provide us all with the opportunity to see what the Opposition have in mind and the approach that they will take in the run-up to the next election and if they were ever to be elected to government . |
| 5 | Why ca n't I take back the dozen ski-holiday brochures I 'm leafing through , and be rewarded with a discount from the travel agents , and the knowledge that they 're recycling them ? |
| 6 | The tears that came with this knowledge were now true tears of grieving for his father 's death , and the knowledge that they would never communicate with each other . |
| 7 | But the sight of their debauchery stifled his own , and the knowledge that they were going to end the evening at Madam Rachel 's select brothel , just off the Haymarket , far from exciting him , disgusted him . |
| 8 | Rare woods , special inlays , great tone and the knowledge that you 'll be the envy of everyone who has n't got one , and by the end of the year they 'll have missed their chance , too . |
| 9 | William Shakespeare left his wife his ‘ second best bed ’ , and an industrialist from Philadelphia who died in 1947 included among his bequests , ‘ to my wife I leave her lover , and the knowledge that I was n't the fool she thought I was ’ . |
| 10 | Erm I 'd re I 'd really like the the experience and the knowledge that I could learn at college , but I 'd like to take a short cut too . |
| 11 | In the 1930s , with the threat of war and the knowledge that it might be fought in territories infested with malaria , the need for additional remedies was evident . |
| 12 | The power of instinct , fierce and primitive , and the knowledge that it brings . |
| 13 | But he thought he knew a thing or two about muscles , and the knowledge that it was only a couple of big muscles that were keeping him alive was not comforting . |
| 14 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |
| 15 | The student must gather all his energies , and with great stillness of mind , and the knowledge that he can push beyond ordinary human barriers , focus them on the point where the material at hand is to be broken . |
| 16 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 17 | Roman was never far from her thoughts , and the knowledge that he would be meeting Dana in Paris after the show was very bitter . |
| 18 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 19 | Good food , plenty of sleep , and the knowledge that she was really wanted and loved gave her face a serenity it had never had before . |
| 20 | There was no fear in her eyes : only hatred , and the knowledge that she could never , ever die . |
| 21 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 22 | If this approach is anywhere near correct , we should expect a correlation between the class of people who are prohibited as sexual partners and the likelihood that they will be familiar or extremely novel ( see Fig. 24.6 ) . |
| 23 | The predicted demand for ISDN — consultancy Prognos reckons it will be the basis for business networks by the year 2000 — and the likelihood that it will become cheaper over time bodes well for the Highlands . |
| 24 | In turn this difference may affect the stability of the employment , and the likelihood that it will generate further growth in the region concerned . |
| 25 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 26 | It will support the Government if they lead , provide the vision and deliver at Maastricht an agreement and draft treaty proposals that will give the people we represent the standard of living , the incomes and the prosperity that they deserve . |
| 27 | ‘ . When a man says he will follow him ‘ but let me first say farewell to those at my home ’ , Jesus reprimands him , and when a woman cries out ‘ Blessed is the womb that bore you , and the breasts that you sucked ’ , he replies ‘ Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God ’ . |
| 28 | The number of actual evictions was tiny — less than twenty per year — though when they occurred they were given widespread publicity and the fears that they raised went far beyond what their numerical significance might indicate . |
| 29 | That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title . |
| 30 | The latter had included , she reminded herself sternly , his insistence on secrecy , her guilt at deceiving his wife , and the discovery that he was simultaneously conducting two other clandestine affairs . |