Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is not the purpose of this book to study these problems , but rather the changes that in an earlier century began to alter our attitude towards death .
2 They have some good features , especially the principle that in dire straits , where there is hardship and cuts are to be made , the broadest backs should carry the greatest burden .
3 Early writers had not analysed clearly enough the elements that by changing constituted a directional advance .
4 If you look at the industry as a whole , there 's obviously the problem that by producing so much more content that people are are simply not going to have the time to get through it .
5 Interestingly it seems very much the case that in socializing infants linguistically , in introducing them to words and utterances , we from the very beginning teach them to use talk in this self-dissociated , fanciful way .
6 What has so far prevented them from becoming assimilated to each other is not only the fact that in the field of psychotherapy , differing theories do not readily and happily intermix , but that each theory tends to take sides ( without this necessarily being apparent ) in the eternal dialogue between youth and age .
7 When stories appear along the lines that in another life you were a peasant girl who starved to death during Ireland 's potato famine you know you 've arrived .
8 ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice .
9 The reasons are numerous — the recession , people 's awareness of drink/driving and perhaps a perception that in some way white spirits are healthier !
10 Maybe he just did n't think when they showed him it , that it was n't the right one cos I suppose if you 've seen them every day you do n't , it does n't register it 's just the fact that of course your dad only gave him the price of the blue and white
11 Is it not the case that on the trip he was identifying markets , boosting British business , ensuring that British companies can take advantage of that business and , in the end , creating jobs back here at home ?
12 Contrary to one popular view , it is not the case that at the Kalmar plant each group of workers builds up a complete car from a box of component parts .
13 Is it not the case that in the east midlands , my area , for example , unemployment is 30,000 fewer than five years ago ?
14 Second , it is not the case that from any three elements the fourth can be uniquely predicted .
15 Is it not the case that after all the hype and hopes that were insinuated in the debate , the Scottish Office is toeing the Ministry of Defence line ?
16 Er I was being told this morning by not the Government that of the twenty million employed in this country , at least a quarter has been affected , has been affected by the disturbances in , in employment in recent years , so it does n't matter you see whether your gun shot massage the figures .
17 The Education Reform Act required college governing bodies to be dominated by employer interests , and it is normally a requirement that at least 50% of the attendance at any governing body meeting should be from the employer sector .
18 There is thus no doubt that on the older authorities the courts have refused to review by way of certiorari the decision of a visitor even though they were prepared to grant mandamus to require him to act or to prohibit him from acting in excess of jurisdiction .
19 Is it not a fact that with 560,000 people reaching the age of 65 this year and the elderly accounting for a larger proportion of the population , national health service provision is proportionately poorer , not better ?
20 Is it not a fact that on 3 July last year the Minister of State told my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian ( Mr. Home Robertson ) that the recruitment figures for individual battalions in Scotland would not be released on the ground of security , yet when it suited the Secretary of State 's purpose , he was prepared to release figures showing 67 per cent .
21 And is is not a fact that in fact the Killinghall bypass and the Ripon bypass , in fact does nothing to in fact i er alleviate those particular problems over about a seven mile stretch .
22 Moreover the fact that after 1713 no State in Western Europe was in a position to dominate the area , as France had done during much of the reign of Louis XIV , introduced into the politics of the period an element of flexibility which had previously been lacking .
23 But it was still the case that with respect to the School " now it is not a credit but a disgrace to us " .
24 But it is still the case that through the reading of it in church a certain image of what it means to be male or female is conveyed .
25 It is apparently still the case that in some local , county gaols adults and juveniles are housed together , sometimes for periods of several weeks .
26 A woman may not be bound by her role as a housewife but it is still the case that in so far as any one person is left with the main responsibility for the housework , that person is the woman .
27 While this is so , it is still the case that by no means all hospitals or doctors are yet educated in the pharmacological and other management of the terminally ill , and large numbers of patients outside hospices and centres of excellence may well , by virtue of their condition , continue to pose the problem of euthanasia .
28 Few cases are quite as confusing as the zebra 's stripes , but there is always the chance that in a year or so 's time new information will have been gathered that changes our views about some aspect of animal life .
29 As Hopper , a nice guy but slightly mad discovered , there is always the danger that after such auspicious beginnings , it might be downhill .
30 However , there is always a danger that in taking such measures a State may , intentionally or unintentionally , give undue assistance , and so promote its own industry at the expense of that of its trading partners .
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