Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 3 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 4 | Erm erm can I just say , just on the on the basis of Mr 's map erm I think that proves the point that er that I suggested at the outset of the discussion erm on this issue , that if you look at the distribution of settlements there outside the greenbelt , there 's nothing there that suggests that any of the particular sectors ought to be discounted . |
| 5 | Of the suggestions that we have canvassed the one that seems to be the most promising is that which points to the emergence of classical measuring instruments from a quantum mechanical substrate , even if the mode and consistency of this happening is harder to comprehend than Copenhagen orthodoxy is willing to recognise . |
| 6 | The inconsistencies in public opinion point to the existence of a substantial section of opinion characterised by a cynicism almost as profound at that which lurks beneath the celestial rhetoric of George Bush . |
| 7 | The defendant was held liable , for the fire which did the damage was not that which broke out in the carburettor but that which spread to the car and this second or continuing fire did not ‘ accidentally ’ begin . |
| 8 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 9 | Where crops were sold both by large estates and small farmers or peasants , the situation was more complex , though in peasant economies , for obvious reasons , the proportion of the crop which came on the world market — i.e. which was not consumed by the producers — from large estates was normally much larger than that which came from the peasant holdings . |
| 10 | But for parallel development in relation to the parliamentary franchise , the position thus brought about might have resembled too closely that which prevailed under the Stuarts , save only that the pretended despot would have been a Prime Minister , able to influence the composition of Parliament to an excessive degree , rather than a monarch claiming Divine Right . |
| 11 | The sedentary farmer succeeded the migrant shepherd as the agent by whom the soil of Spain was squandered ; by the early nineteenth century cereals occupied perhaps three-quarters of the cultivable land , an imbalance between crop and animal husbandry as pernicious as that which prevailed in the heyday of wool . |
| 12 | The greatest single factor that continues to arise in every type of accident is that which falls under the all embracing heading of ‘ human error ’ . |
| 13 | But the real point is that , in contemporary Western society , the network of relations within the domestic household is built on an evaluation of exchange transactions which is , in certain respects , just the converse of that which operates in the capitalist world of wage relationships outside . |
| 14 | In any event , residence of some kind was the hallmark of establishment in so far as establishment involved economic integration in the host member state of a kind that was greater than that which arose from the provision of a cross-border service . |
| 15 | That will have a disastrous effect upon the locality equal to that which arose from the threat of the route . |
| 16 | Yet it is this policy making , often particularly that which occurs at the highest level , that receives very much more attention . |
| 17 | This uniformity expresses that which occurs in the progress of autumn to winter , of day to night , and of fire to ashes just as the symmetry in the rhythm show light and dark . |
| 18 | The knowledge which is concentrated in government agencies is not only that which derives from the employment of professionals , scientists and technologists . |
| 19 | It 's silly things like that which get in the way of the actual show , so for the next series , I suggested a couch , low enough for me to put my arm over the back of it , but high enough to stop me sliding off on to the floor . |
| 20 | There is a paternalistic assumption lurking here , which reminds me of that which led to the disastrous council housing estates of the Sixties and early Seventies . |
| 21 | Half a century later , in 1969 , First Artists Productions , a new independent film company , was set up by Paul Newman , Sidney Poitier and Barbra Streisand , with a similar aim — a balance between mammon and idealism — to that which led to the formation of UA . |
| 22 | He says that Murray always tried to help others , and it was doing just that which led to the tragedy . |
| 23 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 24 | No attempt should be made to allocate the proceeds of the instrument between that which relates to the liability and any other element . |
| 25 | If the ‘ postface ’ is the attitude of feigned female acquiescence to male views , the ‘ preface ’ is that which objects , that which goes through the tiresome ‘ routine ’ of explaining exactly why these views are objectionable . |
| 26 | The urge to stop the car will not qualify , but that which served as the reason for stopping , namely to assist a distressed animal , well might . |
| 27 | The general rule was that a company could lawfully do only that which fell within the scope of the objects clause . |
| 28 | On the highest point , the beech trees of Cottington 's Clump were moving in a stronger wind than that which blew across the heather . |
| 29 | Speaking on sentencing policy to the Law Society of Scotland 's annual conference at Gleneagles Hotel , Lord Taylor said there were two schools of thought — that which believed in the need for , and efficacy of , punishment and that which did not . |
| 30 | First , its approach is completely different to that which pertains in the United Kingdom . |