Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His teaching , or the teaching that over the centuries has been ascribed to him , brought into being the highly influential religion of Christianity . |
| 2 | Or the fact that at secondary school , only the posh wimps played , the ones who actually liked wearing white trousers and rubbing leather balls up and down their groins . |
| 3 | Likewise , a command enjoining some action which was logically impossible , or which had already been carried out , or a lie that through ignorance on the part of the perpetrator turned out to be objectively true , can both be considered defective through the lack of a canonical trait . |
| 4 | Have you anything to declare such as love desire ambition or a glimpse that in this air-conditioning and other circumstantial emptiness freedom has its sudden attractions as the body floats in willing suspension of responsibility to anyone . |
| 5 | Notice that the thought that in principle a would-be rapist should be compensated for giving up the right to rape is implicit in the answer of the supporters of the third principle as well . |
| 6 | Although Harold Wilson did not equate with Bevan in personal terms — in colour or in rhetoric — he too can feel pleased that the condemnation that in many quarters was directed at him demonstrated the genuine respect for his qualities that his adversaries feared . |
| 7 | If it is somewhat bizarre that after all the arguing , all the effort , the video souvenir of the event should be enormously disappointing to the band , it 's not more ironic that the fact that after the show the support act stole all the headlines — for all the wrong reasons . |
| 8 | see that the fact that in Amsterdam they de-criminalized cannabis and they do not have the same kind of problems . |
| 9 | It is noticeable that the group that in general is in control of the transport system ( ie males aged 25–60 ) have , on any given day , the highest percentage making access walks but no walk journeys , so that many in this group will be more familiar with easier , shorter journeys than those such as women , children and the elderly who have over-average representation in the walk journey category . |
| 10 | For example , it was apparent that the belief that with the establishment of a comprehensive system of National Insurance fewer and fewer people would need the ‘ safety net ’ of National Assistance was being proved false , with over a million allowances being paid out weekly in 1949 . |
| 11 | Your overall objective should be to ensure that a deal that at first sight looks attractive is not , in the long run , undermined because you have to expend significant additional sums in order to maintain a reasonable life-style abroad and fulfil your duties adequately . |
| 12 | Flying still excites me with that curious mixture of fear — knowing the plane has the aerodynamics of a brick once the forward thrust is lost — and the knowledge that at the other end of the journey there will be new sounds and smells and things to look at . |
| 13 | But by the time a baby boy grows up , his head has been stuffed with myths and taboos , and the idea that in sexual matters , the man always knows best ! ’ |
| 14 | And really we ought to be concentrating far more upon the other other changes which are proposed other than the Trusts and the things that in fact are fo far worse in my my own opinion . |
| 15 | It was one of the worst years ever for the construction industry and many a card this Christmas carried a message that 1992 was a good year to see the back of and the hope that in 1993 things may start to look brighter . |
| 16 | He also emphasises the need to take into account the costs of relationships , and the possibility that in some instances , apparently supportive relationships can have a negative impact on well-being . |
| 17 | Through his work as a teacher , he became fond of the race of Men and saw in it the possibility and the threat that in time it might far exceed the declining race of Elves . |
| 18 | I thank the Minister for that answer and the confirmation that during the Government 's tenure the burden has been placed firmly on the shoulders of those who are least able to bear it . |
| 19 | The table shows how the funding targets of the 14 English regions are affected by the use of the reduced weighting of standardised mortality ratio and the effect that including the socioeconomic variables would have had . |
| 20 | The committee appointed to enquire into the copper trade and mining ( 1799 ) , said in their report that copper bolts had never been considered strong enough , and that the practice of copper bottoming was stopped by about 1750 , as a result of the losses , and the fact that at one time a third of the navy was in dock under repair . |
| 21 | It is not common sense , and the fact that for most people it is one of the fundamental taken-forgranted assumptions of daily life is a measure of the tremendous success and power of the capitalist global system project . |
| 22 | There is some debate as to the omission of Lloyd 's of London from the FSA , given the nature of such recent scandals at Lloyd 's ( and the fact that to some extent these scandals prompted the FSA ) . |
| 23 | ‘ They want to cover up falling union membership and the fact that under the last Labour Government investment rose by just 13pc whereas under the Conservatives it has risen by 55pc in real terms . |
| 24 | And the fact that during our period the most rapidly industrialising countries , like Britain and Germamy , were also the great exporters of men , seemed to justify them . |
| 25 | Using the method of comparing population proportions given in Exercise 5 of Chapter 5 and the fact that about one in five twins are identical , check the assertion that the Danish Twin Registry data given in Section 16.1 show evidence of a genetic effect even for ‘ other acute infections ’ . |
| 26 | In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated . |
| 27 | Their own experiences at the Front , and the fact that in many of their villages and townships heavier losses had already been recorded than in the First World War , contradicted what Hitler had had to say . |
| 28 | The schedules proved to be acceptable , Their major drawback was length , perhaps inseparable from comprehensiveness , and the fact that in this exercise they were not integrated with normal agency practice and statutory six-monthly reviews . |
| 29 | The fact that this happens so widely and the fact that in relation to the volume and importance of the work they have to do , curriculum centres are still understaffed and under-funded indicates that there still exists a rather strange ordering of educational priorities . |
| 30 | They reflect added commercialism in the game , and the fact that in Wales various means are being sought to re-kindle public support lost in recent years . |