Example sentences of "that the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Locke that the strained sense of ‘ perceive ’ must indeed be the one on which all the rest of our talk about the objects of perception should be fashioned . |
| 2 | 40% of the women interviewed considered pregnancy should be treated as a disease and 87% that the perinatal period was a " highly dangerous " time for them . |
| 3 | In the above example , the ‘ cost , insurance , and freight ’ or ‘ CIF ’ stipulation was made possible by the likelihood that the Belgian bill of lading would arrive in Marseilles by land before the goods would arrive by sea . |
| 4 | No French troops troubled the road to Mons ; it seemed that the Belgian countryside slept under its summer heat . |
| 5 | It is here that the contradictory character of the inner city assumes such significance . |
| 6 | As much because of what is left unsaid as because of what is directly described , The Albatross is one of those exceptions which suggest that the junior adventure story has always suffered under unnecessary limitations : the names that stand out in the genre are those who in various ways have ignored or overridden these limitations . |
| 7 | But speaking about the possible loss of a new community centre , she added : ‘ The parish council have reluctantly taken the view that the Junior School is paramount at this time but , should land values improve by the time the site is actually sold , the community centre should still be a possibility . |
| 8 | McDaid denied any links with the IRA and withdrew after it became clear that the junior partner in the government , the Progressive Democrats ( PDs ) , would not vote for a reshuffle including him . |
| 9 | She could n't tell him that it had aroused her ; that the smarting of her breasts and belly and buttocks had combined to generate an absurd pleasure ; that the gentle scourging of her flesh had stimulated a tide of salaciousness ; that she was enjoying it . |
| 10 | When the unit is in place , adjust the angle of the mercury switch S1 so that the gentle vibration experienced as the car is being driven causes the l.e.d. to stop flashing . |
| 11 | This led S. Ohno at the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York to the rather unlikely conclusion that the mammalian ovary must be capable of inducing oestrus cycles even in the complete absence of eggs . |
| 12 | Ten years ago , in the attempt to prove that the mammalian brain naturally contained a substance with opiate-like activity , Kosterlitz 's colleague John Hughes regularly got up at 4 o'clock in the morning , collected pigs ' brains from a slaughterhouse and pulverised them with a steel rod in the basement toilet of a laboratory in Aberdeen . |
| 13 | Says Renate Olins , director of the London Marriage Guidance Council , ‘ It 's entirely understandable that the innocent party is wracked with feelings of such vehemence and passion that she may not know what to do with them . ’ |
| 14 | In Chase Manhattan Bank NA v Israel-British Bank NA [ 1981 ] Ch 105 , a civil case , it was held that the innocent party to an overpayment retains an equitable right where the overpayment was brought about by a mistake of fact . |
| 15 | It was held that Maidstone market was a market overt because it was established by charter in 1747 and that the innocent purchaser obtained a good title to the car because it was customary at Maidstone market for goods to be sold by private treaty after the auction . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal held that the innocent purchaser acquired good title under section 9 of the Factors Act . |
| 17 | Unless you happen to have a racetrack in your back gardens , I would have thought that the sheer frustration of never really being able to stretch a car like this is one of the main drawbacks to owning one . |
| 18 | When we worked it out as an average that the sheer monitoring and chasing quotes or following up quotes erm and just preparing the documentation , we were n't convinced that was the case at all . |
| 19 | There are plenty of good ideas around , but the worry is that the sheer difficulty of practising in inner cities will overwhelm even the most enthusiastic practitioners and managers and that they will ‘ settle for more of the same … but out of better buildings . ’ |
| 20 | From his diaries it is evident that the sheer mass of work he achieved was remarkable . |
| 21 | There is a real danger that the sheer scope of the Darwin industry will encourage us to forget that other people were thinking about organic origins at the time , but were exploring very different ways of trying to understand the development of life on earth . |
| 22 | I think sometimes people who do n't actually work in schools imagine that the schools are managed , in the financial organisational sense , by the Local Education Authority , and that in some way the head of the school is merely concerned with discipline , curriculum and so on , but one has to bear in mind that the sheer size of some of these schools now makes the head a manager in a very real sense . |
| 23 | It was not until daylight broke that the sheer scale of the devastation could be seen . |
| 24 | Few brewers realised that the sheer proliferation of products , rather than consumer demand , was fuelling growth and that this short-sighted gallop would eventually limit the size of the market . |
| 25 | But the London office checked it out and confirmed that the sheer secrecy of the Bedford police gave credence to the story . |
| 26 | Others found that the sheer workload of the course left them unable to develop outside interests , such as reading or the theatre . |
| 27 | King Edward was still sure that the sheer weight of his mounted knights must prevail . |
| 28 | It remains to be seen who will end up being the dominant supplier , but it would seem that the sheer volume of Novell and DOS/Windows users will dictate that future PC Lan systems will have to be compatible with them . |
| 29 | One accepts , of course , that the sheer volume and intractability of the subject matter render resort to delegated legislation to some degree inevitable ; but , by the same token , those very factors of volume and intractability almost necessarily involve a degree of perfunctoriness in parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 30 | In short , then , while one is able to adduce specific reasons for the creation of certain of the joint muderris/muftiliks , it is important to recognize that these offices were a not uncommon feature of the Ottoman learned profession in the sixteenth century and that the sheer momentum of established practice may count for as much in assessing the reasons for their creation as what appear to be locally important considerations in each individual case . |