Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun sg] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So great by now was Edward 's paranoia that in 1324 he seized the lands of his queen , Isabella , and dispersed her servants to safe-custody in various religious houses , lest they be employed to aid her brother , the king of France . |
| 2 | It is a measure of Edward 's desperation that by its terms he surrendered any claims which Englishmen had upon Scottish lands and thus alienated further support among his magnates . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | She provides a lopsided interpretation of Freemantle 's report that on her death bed the poet expressed concern for her father and asked that the subscription be carried on for his sake : |
| 5 | What must have really alerted concerned Americans was Blumer 's conclusion that for the most part the movies dulled discrimination , confused judgement , and stimulated random and unchannelled emotions . |
| 6 | A pointed feminist saying about the president goes : ‘ George Bush is every woman 's first husband ’ , an apt summary of Francis Fukuyama 's concern that in liberal democracies the greatest threat is boredom . |
| 7 | It had not escaped Cecilia 's notice that to many people , even today , old women are objects of ridicule . |
| 8 | It was followed by a silence so fraught with regret on Luce 's part that after a few seconds she had to admit the truth . |
| 9 | Einzig was so frequently seen in Minton 's company that to outsiders it seemed as if she became his other half . |
| 10 | It is clear from Clarkson 's History that in the early years of the anti-slave trade agitation local organisations were established through existing religious networks ( an example would be the Quaker Lloyds in Birmingham ) or contact by Clarkson or others with a small group of prominent individuals who already had an interest in the issue . |
| 11 | After lunch in a sheltered spot in the garden she 'd vetoed the idea of going sailing , despite Rune 's assurance that like many Danes he was a competent sportsman on the water , enjoying water-skiing and sailboarding as well as yachting . |
| 12 | A glaring example of this is Andersson 's claim that to has meaning in He trained the dog to perform some very clever tricks , where it is prepositional , but not in He taught the dog to perform some very clever tricks , where it is " a pure infinitive marker without meaning " ( 1985 : 267 ) . |
| 13 | It crossed Harry 's mind that on the kind of salary he received — even if he was lucky enough to be paid as well by an English employer as he was by Wendell Harvey — Madeleine would not be able to afford designer dresses , or any other of those expensive luxuries she took for granted . |
| 14 | She first confirmed Watson 's hypothesis that in the tobacco mosaic virus small protein sub-units were arranged in a helical fashion . |
| 15 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 16 | But the Baptism of Jesus did not merely see the end of the long silence , and God 's declaration that in Jesus the role of the Servant and the Son had converged : the age-long drought of the Holy Spirit was ended too . |
| 17 | Looking back towards his study of Cornford and Harrison , he approves of Johnson 's view that for the modern the distinctions between tragedy and comedy were superficial . |
| 18 | In 1975 Dr ( later Lord ) William Marshall , the country 's leading champion of nuclear power , lamented before a House of Lords ' committee that at the current rate of progress there might be only two fast reactors on line by 2000 . |
| 19 | A typical statement of this position was Claire Johnston 's argument that in realist feminist film ‘ what the camera in fact grasps is the ‘ natural ’ world of dominant ideology ’ . |
| 20 | The result is to make more plausible Mancini 's claim that from the seizure of the prince at the end of April some men were suspicious of Gloucester 's ultimate intentions . |
| 21 | The result is to make more plausible Mancini 's claim that from the seizure of the prince at the end of April some men were suspicious of Gloucester 's ultimate intentions . |
| 22 | Zhdanov , in particular , evidently did not share Bukharin 's view that in 1934 the time was past when literary criticism should be a " battering ram which smashed the enemy " For Zhdanov and company the socio-political climate was ripe for battering and smashing the ideological enemies of the Soviet Union with every available cultural and artistic weapon . |
| 23 | About literality and freedom in the rendering of poetic texts , however , the applied linguists are not altogether at ease ; Hatim and Mason ( 1990 ) allude to Roman Jakobson 's argument that in a poem " formal aspects of the linguistic code become part of the meaning , so that translation proper is impossible " — in other words , that the only option may be some form of creative equation in which the resources of the target language are searched for equivalents or compensatory balances . |
| 24 | In later years many critics were to take up Lorentz 's implication that in essence I am a Fugitive was a conventional melodrama centred on a romantic hero . |
| 25 | They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ . |
| 26 | As I have said , it is claimed on Winchester 's behalf that in addition to being an exempted person , it was also a member of Lautro itself , and thus in addition an appointed person . |
| 27 | And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe , taking it over in the title of Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse , we may well think again about Auden 's comment that in English family life ‘ it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks , hoaxes , family games and jokes ’ . |
| 28 | Derrida focuses on Foucault 's claim that in Madness and Civilization he is writing a history of the Other . |
| 29 | This critique of utilitarianism would seem to support Gandhi 's contention that in comparison with sarvodaya utilitarianism shows a lack of dignity and humanity . |
| 30 | It was the Bioscope 's view that for the person ‘ in search of different phases of human nature there is no better place to find objects of study than to visit a bioscope show ’ . |