Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lancashire cotton industry grew so spectacularly after 1770 that by 1803 cotton had replaced wool as Britain 's leading export , a pre-eminent position that it was to hold until 1938 . |
| 2 | The prohibitions in question were those against parricide and incest ; but of these that against incest had priority because it was the occasion for the temptation to commit the latter . |
| 3 | It is surely a powerful confirmation of his underlying concern with tragedy throughout the whole of 1871 that in this period we find , again and again , lengthy drafts and preliminary studies for one part or other of BT , but no other sizeable fragments ascribable to a " large " book " about Greece " and falling outside the actual book 's eventual range . |
| 4 | It was for reasons such as these that in June 1981 we used the educational press to invite schools , colleges , and teachers to contact us if they had ‘ undertaken self-evaluation , self-assessment , self-monitoring or curriculum review ’ . |
| 5 | The safe shelter he had found on the edge of the village could not have been more comfortable , for all that on awakening and having his first lightsome look it struck him as a mite strange . |
| 6 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 7 | Doris will account for all that in the script and he 'll fall into line the second he sees hard print . |
| 8 | For one thing , how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected ? |
| 9 | This is that area of physical life which is associated with sickness and health ; an area wherein the interplay between the subconscious healing operations of the bodily functions , on the one hand , and the power of the human mind or will to help those functions on the other , would offer immense possibilities for medical practice if the practitioner knew for sure that in the mind of the patient there was the certain knowledge that successful self-help generated from faith in a fully believed-in ‘ god ’ could be achieved . |
| 10 | For those that like " -ism " sorts of names , the aptest name for my approach to understanding how things work is probably " hierarchical reductionism " . |
| 11 | Archbishop Stratford maintained in 1341 that in March 1337 the king obtained the assent of parliament to go to war against Philip of France . |
| 12 | Americas Watch estimated in 1986 that at any one time , 300 or more prisoners were held in DGSE facilities . |
| 13 | They are well known in the Weald of Kent and Sussex and around Poole harbour ; and one land-drainage contractor was of the opinion in 1986 that in his own county , Northamptonshire , there was scarcely a parish without areas which were effectively undrainable due to ochre . |
| 14 | It would be reasonable to expect from this that over a few years , our APR disclosure regulations broadly similar to the US Truth in Lending Law — will raise people 's knowledge of APRs well above the present level , and confirm them in their belief that disclosure of APRs is important . |
| 15 | It is clear from this that for Rolle prayer was the most important exercise by which the reality of faith is realised , which is why he deals with it first after the section on the necessity for patience in adversity : Prayer is the means by which the transforming dynamic of the love of God is accessed in the innermost marrow ( " inhirliest mergh " ) of our hearts ( 7.118.28 ) and labour becomes light ( 11.123.30 ) . |
| 16 | It was obvious from this that in going into storms we were quite literally playing with fire . |
| 17 | We can see from this that in the technical sense most large and many small organisations can be described as bureaucracies . |
| 18 | It follows from this that in a recognition test subjects will find it extremely difficult to distinguish one of the early sentences in a passage from similar sentences which mean the same . |
| 19 | Whether we would be correct to conclude from this that in manic-depression mania was produced by a quasi-toxic suppression of the superego I do not know , but if would certainly accord well with Freud 's suggestion that in the manic interludes in depression we witness ‘ a magnificent festival of the ego , which might then once again feel satisfied with itself ’ . |
| 20 | It will be apparent from this that in the event of LCH 's liquidation the clearing members would rank not as members but as creditors or debtors . |
| 21 | Margaret Irwin reported in 1894 that in one Edinburgh firm the piece rate was 6¾d per 1000 for a man , 3d to 5d for a woman ; in another , men got 6½d , women 4½jd to 5d . |
| 22 | Indeed , it was not until 1940 that under the demands of world conflict and with cost almost no object , the War Agricultural Committees laid down thousands of miles of concrete roads along the droveways throughout the fens . |
| 23 | Postwar economic growth , especially in the past decade of celebration of free enterprise and markets , has generated a more or less universal acquisitiveness , and it is far from evident that in circumstances in which the desires which have been aroused can not be gratified , or their pursuit breeds disillusionment , socialism , historically grounded in the labour movement , does or can now provide a new direction . |
| 24 | Lord Strange wrote to Robert Cecil in 1593 that since his father , the Earl of Derby , was unlikely to live long , he wished to be given the earl 's office of Chamberlain of Chester . |
| 25 | The World Bank estimated in 1970 that in cities such as Bogota in Columbia , Mexico City , Madras and Ahmadabad in India , and Nairobi in Kenya , between a half and two-thirds of the households could not afford even a house of £300–£1500 — the cheapest that can be built with modern materials such as cement and fired bricks . |
| 26 | There can be no doubt , however , that funerary liability was a powerful inducement to save ; it was estimated in 1843 that between one-quarter and one-third of all deposits in savings banks were intended to provide for ‘ a respectable funeral . ’ |
| 27 | Charles Wesley congratulated himself in 1744 that as a consequence of his having preached against wrestling on his visit to Cornwall in the preceding year , the village of Gwennap had been unable to find enough men for their next contest , " all the Gwennap men being struck off the Devil 's list , and found wrestling against him not for him " . |
| 28 | There was a widespread feeling in 1951 that at any moment the Chinese , who had already identified themselves in US eyes as aggressors in Korea , might extend their intervention to Vietnam . |
| 29 | Thomas Law reported in 1896 that in one Lancashire town the local Council nominated nine men for election to eleven vacancies on the Board of Guardians and all nine were elected . |
| 30 | It seemed clear to many that with the defeat of France a glorious peace was imminent . |