Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Fans have besieged me of late claiming that in my last programme notes I announced the opening of a club shop . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |