Example sentences of "that [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates suggest that between a fifth and a quarter of children may spend some time in a one-parent family . |
| 2 | A case of the contrast which may be helpful as a mnemonic is that between a symphonic overture ( ascriptive ) which is symphonic in and by itself , and an operatic overture ( associative ) which does not have the usual characteristics of opera ( not only is it purely orchestral , it is often played with the curtain not yet risen ) but which is , nonetheless , designated by a phrase where the property OPERATIC is associated with OVERTURE in order to describe sufficiently what the speaker wishes to identify . |
| 3 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 4 | And I would also draw attention to a particular consideration namely that between the outer boundary of the greenbelt in that corridor and the area of outstanding natural beauty of the Hills , there is very little distance . |
| 5 | We can say , then , that between the two codes involved — Baroque and rock — there are differences but also a relatively high syntactic correlation . |
| 6 | The only reliable difference in Table 1 is that between the pooled combining conditions , and versus with : by a chi-square test , . |
| 7 | Just as the line between semantics and pragmatics is fuzzy , so is that between the indexical and symbolic meanings of deictic terms . |
| 8 | In England the question of translation was complicated by the fact that between the Norman Conquest and the middle of the fourteenth century French was the language of the ruling class . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , Mori figures show that between the second half of 1991 and 9 April 1992 , the swing to the Tories was 9 per cent among Sun readers and 6 per cent among Star readers , compared to just 1 per cent among Mirror readers — evidence that the press influenced its readers in 1992 as in 1987 . |
| 10 | ( This xenia directly anticipates that between the early fourth-century Spartan king Agesilaus and the Persian satrap Mausolus , not to mention the fusion policies of Alexander : see p. 193 . ) |
| 11 | Er we , we 'll agree that between the three of us and make sure we have the exact wording , cos we would n't want three three subjects would we ? |
| 12 | Craig Monson builds on his edition of the vernacular service music to validate suspicions that between the Short Services by Tallis and Byrd , and between those by Byrd and Morley , there is a commonality of material and procedures both overt and covert that is not coincidental but deliberate , and possibly inspired by respect for and deference to a master by ( not a pupil , but ) a disciple . |
| 13 | In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | The analogous distinction in fiction would be that between the conscious and the reluctant narrator — the sad , the unwitting narrator . |
| 15 | We can conveniently begin with a widely drawn cosmological contrast , that between the secure realm of human habitation and activity , and the wild wasteland which surrounds and threatens it . |
| 16 | Until recently historians have believed that between the opposing parties there emerged around 1317 a so-called Middle Party , which had its beginning in a mission to Avignon in that year . |
| 17 | For the manager the critical relationship to understand is that between the potential ‘ drive ’ of an individual and the nature of needs . |
| 18 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 19 | Incomplete figures reveal that between the third ( 1762 ) and fourth ( 1782 ) censuses , the number of exiled serfs almost quadrupled from around 2,500 to over 10,000 in the Tobolsk , Kolyvan and Irkutsk provinces alone , that is , not counting those condemned to hard labour in the mines at Nerchinsk . |
| 20 | It is probable that about a further 10,000 jobs are generated by whisky exports , giving an estimate of approximately 93,215 jobs generated by all Scottish manufactured exports . |
| 21 | David Clews , of Pintail , says that about the only request for spares was due to a shaft breaking when a burr caught in clothing . |
| 22 | ‘ If you say that about the Irish , why did you marry my mother ? ’ |
| 23 | You might say that about the human animal really , might n't you ? |
| 24 | Could n't you say that about the British in Portugal ? |
| 25 | Before I moved to Sheffield in 1970 I had done my homework and knew that for a first visit to this corner of the Peak the venue had to be the last of these three crags . |
| 26 | This follows from ( 5.47 ) as recognizing that for a perpetual bond rm = rc ( see ( 5.5 ) and ( 5.7 ) ) . |
| 27 | Symmetry selection rules correspond to symmetry requirements that for a forbidden band , must be zero , at least at the equilibrium configuration , where Q is zero . |
| 28 | There is now a considerable literature on the public schools , none of which unfortunately comes to grips with what seems , with respect to the subject of this book , to be perhaps the central issue : the fact that for a hundred years , from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth , the British governing classes were educated in an atmosphere which combined the toleration of a merciless brutality with perpetual exhortations to be good . |
| 29 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 30 | Assuming that dl → 0 and noting that for a closed contour the line integral of the electric field vanishes we get |