Example sentences of "[noun] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moore is also the man who holds fixedly to the belief that it is solely because he lives in a Labour borough that his pavements have broken and cracked paving-stones . |
| 2 | When she was a child , Ginny Salperton followed the forms of religion that her school and to a lesser extent her parents laid down for her . |
| 3 | The creation of a captive insurance company may enable the group to save on premiums and to cover risks that their normal insurers do not ( eg excess claims ) . |
| 4 | Mrs Martin , 38 , says doctors failed to warn her of the risks that her sterilisation operation might not work forever . |
| 5 | Such was their isolation that their way of life hardly reflected at all the kind to be found just a dozen miles away . |
| 6 | But in the isolation that their riches had brought about , and in their serene acceptance that privilege was their due , they did not anticipate for a moment the press of people Don Antonio Beatillo 's idiosyncratic will would bring to their door . |
| 7 | Darras relishes the splendid isolation that his undisputed status as poet confers , and the power that language bestows . |
| 8 | And then the moment had passed , and tall and tanned and fit in the sunshine she had walked down the green street with the gardens either side of her , and had known by an instinctive glance that her mother still lived there , that nothing had changed . |
| 9 | The London Stock Exchange invariably requires that a company seeking a listing provides in its articles of association that its shares will be free from any restriction on the right of transfer and free from any lien ( see the Yellow Book , section 1 , chapter 2 , para 4 and section 9 , chapter 1 , para 1.2 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The association that our society makes between authority and masculinity , more specifically adult heterosexual masculinity , is a significant underpinning of the power structure of a school system where most administrators , principals and subject heads are men ’ ( Connell , 1985 , pp. 138–9 ) . |
| 11 | Revolutions toppled first the Chinese emperor in 1911 , then the tsar of Russia in 1917 ; the Great War of 1914–1918 also weakened the European powers drastically and at the same time showed the colonized peoples that their seemingly invincible white masters were capable of enormous self-destructive folly . |
| 12 | There was also a noting of a physical pattern ‘ … a physically produced rhythm … the sorts of rhythm that your hand makes automatically ’ . |
| 13 | She had assumed that because mother had n't wept or shown grief that her father had n't been loved by anyone but herself and her father 's parents , who wept copiously . |
| 14 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 15 | Seymour Clarke , General Manager of the Great Northern Railway , told the 1869 Parliamentary Select Committee on the transit of animals that his company sent meat from almost all the 197 stations on its lines . |
| 16 | More often the memory is of the displeasure that their body and its excretions caused . |
| 17 | Apes may well have produced new two-sign combinations that their trainers have been inclined to interpret as appropriately invented for some feature in the context . |
| 18 | Kate throws herself into her delusion that her son will come back ; Joe heartily espouses being realistic and burying the dead . |
| 19 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |
| 20 | With the illicit amorous adventures of wives in the situation of the eternal triangle ( husband , wife , lover ) being the most common single dramatic type in the fabliaux , the most frequent type as the object of ridicule is the deceived husband , often not merely cuckolded but on occasion beaten or otherwise degraded or abused as well ; and what is more after all this sometimes so utterly deceived that he remains happy in the delusion that his wife has proved herself faithful to him . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |
| 22 | The economy of the villa had undergone so many transformations over the centuries that its nature and workings were subject to every kind of variation . |
| 23 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 24 | To our philosophy teacher , Professor John Macmurray , I owed the perception that my chosen trade was a treacherous one if what you looked for was strict objectivity . |
| 25 | Rather , as was pointed out in Makanjuola v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis , it is intended to reassure informants that their statements will only be used for the investigation of complaints and for such criminal or disciplinary proceedings as directly follow . |
| 26 | The urgency to complete it was put down to US pressure to achieve a result in time for the opening of the Republican Party convention on Aug. 17 , apparently in an attempt to boost the troubled election campaign of President George Bush by convincing the US electorate that his skills in the foreign policy field had domestic benefits . |
| 27 | Though a great deal of Professor Alexander 's book is new and original work , it is probably in his study of these indications of manuscript planning and iconographic guidance that his book is most fascinating . |
| 28 | This time it caught Millie across the wrist , and when she reacted by rising from her seat in an effort to leave the room , she found herself thrust back with such force that her head bobbed on her shoulders . |
| 29 | This does not matter too much , because gravity is such a weak force that its effects can usually be neglected when we are dealing with elementary particles or atoms . |
| 30 | gear with my forehead with such force that my goggles , which I was wearing luckily , were shattered and my face badly bruised and bleeding profusely . |