Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overnight the new Soviet government , with plans for social welfare that on paper went far beyond those of Scandinavia or Britain in 1945 , had to take over . |
| 2 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 3 | It is the least satisfactory feature of collegiate universities that for all social and administrative purposes — meals and meetings and life in Common Room — the academics minx not with those who share their intellectual preoccupations but with people of completely different disciplines . |
| 4 | Such an equilibrium is stable ; that is , the price , if displaced a little from it , will tend to return , as a pendulum oscillates about its lowest point ; and it will be found to be a characteristic of stable equilibria that in them the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than the equilibrium amount , and vice versa . |
| 5 | These working practices had developed quite informally , and had become ‘ institutionalised ’ in a set of unwritten rules that in the end failed to satisfy anyone completely . |
| 6 | However , it is a matter of historical record that in the twenties the Ipswich branch had opposed the development of a district organisation and viewed the period following the introduction of the 1924 Adult Education Regulations as one of increasing centralisation . |
| 7 | They were friendly , but with a suburban reserve ; they were mad on sport and thought everybody knew all about it ; and they were gaining a glittering net-curtain prosperity against a background of ruined buildings that in England had been bombed in the war ( and in Ireland had fallen down ) . |
| 8 | For Jackie , it also brought a number of painful reminders that in those days , perhaps only a trifle more than now , driver mortality was a fact of life . |
| 9 | I do not believe it is merely the result of social conditioning that in the Scriptures , in the Jewish and Christian tradition , mankind and the Church is presented as feminine to God , to whom our response must be one of obedience in contrast to those religions in which the divine is regarded as contained within creation and is to be manipulated or cajoled in order to provide what man needs . |
| 10 | Invited the Lord President to take soundings among Government supporters with a view to determining whether it would be possible to persuade those who were in favour of the abolition of capital punishment that in the interests of securing the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in the 1947–48 Session they should refrain from pressing for this change in the law ; |
| 11 | It seems to be a matter of ordinary experience that in such circumstances we do accept the psychological fact as sufficient reason for making a choice and for retrospectively judging it right or wrong . |
| 12 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 13 | All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals . |
| 14 | However , it may be indicative of increased competition that in the case of dollar issues for supranationals the average margin over US T-bonds in 1980 – 83 was 17 basis points while in 1984 – 87 it was – 11 basis points . |
| 15 | Fans have besieged me of late claiming that in my last programme notes I announced the opening of a club shop . |
| 16 | He seems to have decided long before assuming responsibility for the government of Northern Nigeria that in general some form of indirect administration was ‘ in accordance with the spirit of British colonial rule ’ , which was benevolent and not ‘ arbitrary and despotic ’ . |
| 17 | This statement is in direct contradiction to the view of other researchers that at least up to age eleven , girls do as well as boys in mathematics . |
| 18 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 19 | Whitelocke replied with brutal honesty that in his opinion , ‘ it should be more to his prejudice than advantage to do so ’ , a remark that , predictably , displeased Cromwell . |
| 20 | I thought with sudden exasperation that of course I was quiet . |
| 21 | It was Willans who advised Rolt 's parents to apprentice him as a mechanical engineer , and it was with great enthusiasm that in 1926 the boy left Cheltenham College , which had been a miserable experience for him , to serve as a pupil at Bomfords , an agricultural engineering firm at Pitchill near Evesham . |
| 22 | Noreen felt much the same so it was with great relief that for the New York engagement they could at least travel in from Queen 's each day and sleep in their own beds at night . |
| 23 | It was with great satisfaction that in June 1918 The Seaman could report that at Southampton a case in which British seamen had refused , by prior arrangement , to sail with Chinese , was dismissed by the local magistrates . |
| 24 | It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business . |
| 25 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 26 | 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 ] ’ . |
| 27 | Eventually the earth would be dug out , remoulded and cast once more in the form of bricks , which would take their place in fresh walls that in due course would crumble again . |
| 28 | In countries like Brazil , the original financing had come so heavily from foreign loans that by the mid-1980s , SOE debt was over half of the total foreign commercial debt . |
| 29 | Missioners sided with the deaf and dumb population , being aware from personal experience that at least some degree of manualism was essential for communication with , and between , deaf and dumb people and that a proportion was capable of benefiting from higher education . |
| 30 | Relief workers reported in early August that since the beginning of the year thousands of Ethiopians had died in the Ogaden region and in the refugee camps of Gode , Kelafo and Dolo in the south-east . |