Example sentences of "that [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then there 's another theory with your feet , you know that bit of skin between your toes , they claim that was web at one time |
| 2 | Not too bright at all , I put just that bit of white in like you said and it 's coming on lovely . |
| 3 | Her room was so grubby too , with nothing but a bed in it and that bidet and that bit of rag for a curtain over the small old propped-up suitcase and some clothes . |
| 4 | I 've got outline planning permission for a shopping complex with secondary access to Champney Road via that bit of wasteland by your house . |
| 5 | Erm , what do you think he wrote on the other side of that bit of paper in front of you . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you follow that trail of paint towards the clearing they talk about ? ’ |
| 7 | The monstrosity of the exterminatus he contemplated had eclipsed that thread of instinct until now , all be it that exterminatus was the correct course of action . |
| 8 | We are gathered here a little before Christmas to perform our annual fishing industry pre-ministerial Council season 's service — that litany of woe from every corner of the kingdom — telling of sad tidings of discomfort and no joy in the industry . |
| 9 | ‘ You are so right , ’ the stranger said , always with that look of persiflage upon her face , ‘ there is nothing to a degree , unless you are a complete clod , I got mine for a bet — ’ |
| 10 | She had seen that look of appraisal in men 's eyes before . |
| 11 | But that look of defeat on his wife 's face was conducive neither to his sense of success nor to his peace of mind . |
| 12 | AN AMERICAN visitor to Panama who had the rare chance of meeting General Manuel Antonio Noriega said the dictator bore ‘ that look of doom on his face ’ . |
| 13 | Checks should also be made to establish that change of use of the land is not required and that there are no listed buildings or tree preservation orders affecting the site . |
| 14 | From then on , by day and night , the garrison laboured to keep that shield of earth between themselves and the sepoys . |
| 15 | Mr Ferguson admitted the game was ‘ something of a grind and we needed that flash of brilliance from Kanchelskis . |
| 16 | He spoke a little stiffly , and again Jean-Paul thought he saw that flash of resentment in the eyes , there and then gone . |
| 17 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 18 | A good example is that branch of physics for which the title ‘ optoelectronics ’ has been coined . |
| 19 | Cripps 's loss to soccer was rugby 's gain ; he spent the next twenty years teaching that branch of football to schoolboys . |
| 20 | Obituaries stressed his standing as master silversmith , ‘ very instrumental in bringing that Branch of Trade to the Perfection it is now in ’ . |
| 21 | Some bishops , notably those who owed their promotions to James ( such as Thomas Cartwright of Chester and Samuel Parker of Oxford ) , supported the Indulgence , and encouraged their clergy to deliver addresses of thanks for that part of Declaration in which James promised he would continue to protect the Church of England . |
| 22 | I walk into the terminal thinking , Well , at least there is n't that smell of sewage around you sometimes get when you arrive in dear old Embra ; I 'm not sure I could handle that right now . |
| 23 | Example 2:1 Parcels clause of office suite ALL THAT suite of rooms on the floor of the building known as ( excluding the outer faces of the walls enclosing the said building and its roof and roof structure but including the structure supporting the floor of the said rooms ) and for the purpose of identification only edged in red on the attached plan Example 2:2 Parcels clause of open land ALL THAT parcel of land in and numbered on the Ordnance Map ( 1968 edition ) for the said district a copy of which is attached hereto ( including the entirety of the hedge and ditch on the western boundary of enclosure number but excluding the entirety of the hedges and ditches on the northern boundaries of the said enclosures and the entirety of the road on the southern boundaries thereof ) Example 2:3 Parcels clause of building excluding airspace ALL THAT building known as shown edged red on the attached plan but excluding the airspace lying above the existing roof of that building together with a right for the tenant with or without workmen to enter that airspace for the sole purpose of inspecting the building or carrying out any works for which the tenant is liable under this lease Example 2:4 Parcels clause with details of boundaries ALL THAT the floor of the building known as ( " the property " ) including ( i ) all non-loadbearing walls situated wholly within the red edging on the attached plan ( ii ) one half ( severed vertically ) of all non-loadbearing walls separating the property from any other part of the building ( iii ) all plaster or other decorative finish applied to any wall bounding the property and not included in paragraphs ( i ) or ( ii ) above or applied to any column or loadbearing wall within the property ( iv ) the whole of all doors door frames windows window frames ( including mastic joints or seals ) bounding the property ( v ) all ceilings bounding the property and any void between any suspended ceiling and the structural slat above ( vi ) all floor finishes and floor screeds including raised floors and floor jacks supporting such floors ( vii ) all light fittings and air conditioning units incorporated in any ceiling but not any other part of the air conditioning system |
| 24 | If you are not allowed that kind of release for yourself , it may be intolerable for you to see someone else using it . |
| 25 | At present , I do think that there is that kind of willingness to be er , engaged in this kind |
| 26 | But I mean did they , did they have specific , erm did they , did they have that kind of idea about the type of light they wanted or |
| 27 | ‘ You got me all wrong , Malamute , ’ SHe said , ‘ I do n't need that kind of support from you . |
| 28 | There 's no point , I do n't think , in that kind of pretension to an absolute objectivity , and some of my colleagues in the department do , and I think that 's regrettable , and I do n't think it serves any useful function . |
| 29 | She loved everything , her new-found friends and her new friends , the intellectual ones and the sporting ones and the jokes they made and that kind of life in England and everybody being so accomplished and gay . |
| 30 | I 'm afraid you 'll have to wake up to the fact that that kind of man from that kind of a family would n't know the meaning of love . ’ |