Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [pron] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider an example from the new Collins Cobuild dictionary ( 1987 ) , of which Sinclair is editor-in-chief and which is based on just the kind of computer analysis of text that he refers to . |
| 2 | The forms are more crudely simplified than in Cézanne , and while there is the same sensation of recession that one gets from Cézanne 's paintings , as one 's eye moves from one clearly defined plane to another , Braque 's paintings are composed in such a way that the feeling of depth is very restricted . |
| 3 | And indeed it will be hard for any future Kiwi tourists to recapture the freshness of football that one associates with that side . |
| 4 | One may quibble with some of Jakobson 's distinctions and classifications , but it must be stressed that these are only a small selection of the multitude of relationships that he identifies in the space of this short poem . |
| 5 | It is in the nature of this kind of programme that it deals with several different topics , so the length of individual items is likely to be good for classroom use . |
| 6 | Porter seems to agree with this view , but says that the extra value obtained from putting the results of the sorts of analyses that he recommends into the matrix form is marginal compared to the value derived from the underlying analysis itself . |
| 7 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 8 | In the last two stanzas , Blake is explaining the marks of woe that he sees in the first stanza — but what extraordinary connections to make ! |
| 9 | Yet the whole image of Xanadu is the poet 's personal creation , as he connects the practical knowledge of nature that he holds in his conscious mind , with his less readily available powers of creativity which he stores in his subconscious mind . |
| 10 | This is the system of signification that he refers to as ‘ metalanguage ’ and for Barthes , semiology is a metalinguistic description of ordinary language . |
| 11 | And if Jim 's got some some new form of escalator that he wants to er sell to the customers , or or or whatever , th then |
| 12 | For some reason or other a believer gets into his head such a wrong idea of God that it comes between him and God or between him and his trusting God . |
| 13 | As we saw in Chapter 1 , there are unresolved conflicts between Beccaria 's fundamental assumptions about the nature of human beings , the social contract and the functions of punishment , on the one hand , and the particular mode of control that he derives from them , on the other . |
| 14 | But it is an odd kind of belief that one accords to propositions one can not claim to know ; and Eliot 's talk of mental constructs , plainly an uncomfortable compromise in itself , sits oddly with his intense dogmatism about morality and public affairs . |
| 15 | The lyrical meditation proper to the second degree of love that he includes in Ego Dormio projects a lightness of spirit as it embodies rhetorically a sense of the joyful reality behind the story which is the goal of the contemplative . |
| 16 | And that 's the sort of love that he has for you , and for me . |
| 17 | The criminal justice system , of course , now recognises this even more than it recognises our need for autonomy : monetary penalties are by far the most common form of penalty that it uses in its attempt to control crime . |
| 18 | This is the amount of food that it takes for a fish to stay the same weight , i.e. just survive . |
| 19 | It breathes through a pair of tubes that it projects from her genital opening . |
| 20 | That is to say , the infant must convert stimulation from light rays , sound waves , from the speech stream into the appropriate representational grist if it is to get the kind of information that it requires from the world ; but this gleaning of information does not constitute thought . |
| 21 | The evidence was of the way in which the rocks of the oceanic crust are magnetized ; it 's not the kind of thing that one comes across every day , so it will take a bit of explaining . |
| 22 | Naturally this judgement has to be tempered by the unrepresentative nature of the sample of reports that it draws upon . |
| 23 | The £3m or so net of expenses that it expects from the placing will go to eliminating existing bank loans , which stood at £952,200 on November 13 , with the balance going for working capital . |
| 24 | The sympathetic or empathetic attitude to the natural world that characterizes Gandhi 's teaching , and the sense of identity that he has with it , contrasts strongly with the approach that one normally associates with the highly technological society of the Western world . |
| 25 | At the same time Sartre makes a larger , though less persuasive claim that the boxing-match also works synecdochally and re-exteriorizes a more fundamental violence , namely the interiorized condition of scarcity that he considers to be the basis of conflict in general . |
| 26 | I mean , you know , if you see an advert in the paper that tells you that every fifty pence you spend is going to save a child 's life by providing it with Diralite or providing it with food that it needs for a money , or something like that , I mean how can you justify keeping any fifty pences at all yourself ? |
| 27 | So too in memory research ; if an animal can not be shown to have learned except by changing its behaviour and this change in behaviour can only be induced by some form of stress or constraint , then the changes in biochemistry that one finds in relation to the learning must include the changes in relation to the stress — including all the types of neuromodulators discussed in the last chapter . |
| 28 | They mean in essence that he complies with the procedural expectations of the institution . |
| 29 | It is with this ‘ ideal ’ of ‘ parallelism ’ in mind that one embarks on an analysis of the biased nature of the British press , its ‘ unfairness ’ to the Labour party and its ‘ infatuation ’ with the Conservative party . |
| 30 | ‘ So far everything that we 've done we 've done keeping in mind that it has to be played live . |