Example sentences of "that behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Unbearable Lightness of Being , the Czech exile Sabina disturbs her French friends by being unable to last out a parade held to protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 : ‘ She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism , Fascism , behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic , pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison . ’ |
| 2 | So that behind the changes of direction , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , this has always been a constant , the feeling of disgust in the pit of the stomach . |
| 3 | He suggest that behind Raskolnikov 's sister 's loathing of him there lurks attraction , and he states flatly that she and his own wife were once in love with each other ; and perhaps he is right . |
| 4 | This presentation allows the hint of primitive ritual to remain in the background , just as later Eliot was to imply with deliberate provocation that behind the High Mass lay , if one went back far enough , ‘ the Australian ceremonies described by Spencer and Gillen and Hewett [ sic ] ’ . |
| 5 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 6 | Yet another , Bertrand Blier , senses that behind the clowning ‘ there is a terrible sense of anguish . ’ |
| 7 | So we think : is she saying that behind the glamour and the adulation , especially from young girls , she is really just one of them ? |
| 8 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 9 | The Christian psychologist Paul C. Vitz has said , ‘ From Freud 's example , one has reason to suspect that behind many an atheist , agnostic or sceptic of today lies shame , disappointment or rage directed at the father . |
| 10 | However , not only is the wind downwind of a sail affected but also that behind the board , since the sail curves the wind and it takes a few board lengths for it to revert to its normal direction . |
| 11 | All our lives , we shall know that behind the veils of the transcendent is a world of freedom waiting for us , with its meadows of delight . |
| 12 | IT IS not long before anyone interested in wildlife photography discovers that behind every good picture lies a fairly heavy investment in film ( to allow for the shots that did not work ) and a nigh on infinite amount of both time and patience . |
| 13 | The assassin gave her no time to cry out ; a flare of terror — what am I doing here who is that behind me dark dark someone behind me — and Fox tightened her hold on the other 's mind , taking control . |
| 14 | Captive Audience was going easily but Kelly knew that behind her , Cy would be swinging off Shine On , who was in a different class to her horse . |
| 15 | Whether you love the adventures of ‘ Swallows & Amazons ’ or fancy being marooned on a desert island like Robinson Crusoe you will know that behind these exciting stories lies a real world of evil men ( and women ) who terrorised merchant ships to satisfy their own greed . |
| 16 | But when the appeal of fire-spewing guitars and exploding basses started to pall , Kiss were forced to prove that behind the pan-stick and pyrotechnics lay a band with staying power . |
| 17 | Again and again the book got across Diana 's point of view that behind the hallowed institution of the monarchy exists a family incapable of accepting outsiders . |
| 18 | In the case of Romania , people suspected that behind the arguments about economies of scale and equalized standards of living lay more sinister purposes . |
| 19 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |
| 20 | In all these works there was a sense that the author knew more than he was telling , that behind his immediate story there was a coherent , consistent , deeply fascinating world about which he had no time ( then ) to speak . |
| 21 | The 21-year-old McCracken , who makes his debut in tomorrow 's home game with Wakefield , said : ‘ I 've come to England with a bit of a reputation but I want to put all that behind me and get on with playing rugby and improving my game . |
| 22 | Of course , I 'm very committed to social change , but I leave all that behind me when I get back here . |
| 23 | Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ . |
| 24 | They know that behind the posing , the lippy interviews and Piotr 's cocky , and somewhat questionable , backstage assertion that ‘ music only began in 1980 , everything before was just rubbish , ’ at the core of all truly great bands are , well , truly great songs . |
| 25 | Thus , even though they may for professional purposes , guarantee their subjects ' anonymity in return for access , they nevertheless stress that behind the ‘ sources in Whitehall ’ or ‘ the people of Hicktown ’ there are indeed real people ; thus establishing both their veracity and their morality . |
| 26 | Whilst not denying the symbolic role of leaders , radical elite theorists are more concerned to establish that behind the diversity of official power holders in every liberal democracy there is a defacto centralization of ‘ real ’ decision-making power in the hands of a core executive : the locus of the power elite . |
| 27 | For example , Marx 's economic theory insists that behind the surface phenomenon of wildly fluctuating market prices for goods and services there lies an underlying and controlling structure of values , which are determined not by the supply and demand forces which obsess ‘ bourgeois ’ economists , but by the laws of the labour theory of value . |
| 28 | Here Lévi-Strauss argues that behind the original question from which Sartre began — how can man make history if history makes him ? — lurks another : if it is man who makes history , how does ‘ History ’ gain its exorbitant status as the desired , unachievable object of Sartre 's text ? |
| 29 | Roger of Howden seems to suggest that behind Eleanor there stood the figure of a man , her uncle , Ralph de Faye , the seneschal of Poitou . |
| 30 | The form alone would be as nothing , a shell , but with the knowledge we have that behind the form is the reality — that behind the ritual on the physical plane there is a spiritual significance . |