Example sentences of "[noun] that [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the paradoxes of contemporary political thinking that at the same time as much conventional theory has tried to restrict the idea of democracy to that of choosing a government from competing elites , it is also widely admitted that the theoretical sovereignty of these democratic governments is not in fact matched by their actual powers over society , particularly in relation to the vast conglomerate firms and multi-national companies on whose policies and decisions the employment and livelihood of so many millions now depend . |
| 2 | Meredith that on the grass with his chin tilted to the sky as if sunbathing . |
| 3 | It is a common perception that during the 1950s biology replaced physics as the most exciting domain of science . |
| 4 | One Sunday morning after he had gone to his chapel and I to my church , he came back excitedly waving a newspaper and said ‘ Listen to this , ’ and he read the Dylan Thomas poem ‘ The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ’ . |
| 5 | It was the force that through the green fuse … drove him . |
| 6 | ‘ The force that through the green fuse drives the flower . ’ |
| 7 | The Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Hisham Nazer was quoted before the meeting as saying that while Saudi Arabia would continue to support the US$21 reference price , it would not " force that on the market by a deliberate creation of shortage " . |
| 8 | I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula . |
| 9 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 10 | Gabriel obeyed at once , and while riding along was thinking so hard about the shooting that in the darkness he failed to notice a man walking along the road to Casterbridge . |
| 11 | These are : 1 the differences between speech and writing ; 2 the nature and internal organisation of written texts ; 3 the processes of writing — and concomitant with this , the appreciation that for the purposes of teaching , the process is of prior importance to the product . |
| 12 | Like any political arriviste , he could not be sure whom he should trust among his colleagues , but the faction-fights of the previous thirty years must have taught Ceauşescu that in the Romanian Communist Party ideological affinity or even past services counted for little . |
| 13 | The course was also marketed extensively overseas , with the result that of the current 454 members , 20% are resident abroad . |
| 14 | Mine comes from peaty moorland and the pH is too low with the result that over the years copper pipework corrodes in places , especially at low points . |
| 15 | Breeze and Gay had printed their handbills with great care , and had painted their board most beautifully — with the result that on the following Sunday afternoon the entire population of Overclyst and Clyst St George filed past Sunset Cottage in slow procession , gazing open-mouthed at the birthplace of such a surprising scheme . |
| 16 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |
| 17 | By manipulating the number of days in the intercalary month they could prolong a term of office or hasten an election , with the result that by the time of Julius Caesar the civil year was about three months out of phase with the astronomical year , so that the winter months fell in the autumn and the spring equinox came in the winter . |
| 18 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 19 | She was eleven years old , with a smooth oval face , and deep , dark brown eyes that at the moment seemed far too big for her face . |
| 20 | He had small shrewd hazel eyes that as a rule missed nothing . |
| 21 | Is not the significance of that reply that in a Community of Twelve , investment in this country is as much as that in the other Eleven put together ? |
| 22 | Indeed , it is a matter of pride for his club that in the February issue of Rugby World & Post Andrew led the try-scorers in Britain and Ireland with 23 ( he now has 26 ) and his partner at stand-off , Jonathan Newton , led the point-scorers with 267 ( now over 300 ) ; |
| 23 | It is matched only by the insistence of the anonymous reviewer of the TLS that in The Lord of the Rings all the good and bad sides do is try to kill each other , so that they can not be told apart : ‘ Morally there seems nothing to choose between them . ’ |
| 24 | IT IS a rather puzzling irony that in a country where we are apparently so obsessed with our homes , such a huge proportion of our new houses are mass produced boxes which are put up speculatively by developers who have little knowledge of their end customers ' needs and requirements . |
| 25 | It is pure irony that after a climb involving some of the most sustained smooth rock that I 'd ever encountered , the finish involved a traverse of wire cable attached to a telepherique station , a swing down and across metal laddering and a hand-traverse of the spars which guide the telepherique into its housing . |
| 26 | It should be borne in mind that despite the fact that psychiatric diseases such as depression or manic-depression tend to be vastly over-diagnosed , particularly in sufferers from alcoholism ( in whom these features may be indications of their primary disease of alcoholism ) , some patients do have both addictive disease and psychiatric disease and need appropriate treatment for both . |
| 27 | Whatever I have recommended , you should always bear in mind that to a great degree tackle is a personal affair . |
| 28 | He writes in the last paragraph , ‘ It should be borne in mind that for the creation of a climatic regime managed by man , further progress of science and engineering is necessary which would permit a considerable increase in the present production of energy . |
| 29 | Also , bear in mind that for the single horse owner a bag of coarse mix will be used up while the feed still retains its value . |
| 30 | Unfortunately it is not cheap or readily obtainable , bearing in mind that with the radiometer it might be necessary to screen a considerable proportion of a growth room . |