Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the purely oppressive aspect — that these people felt that women must be seen and not heard , that taking part in an industrial struggle was not right for a woman — there was the undeniable fact that in these families money was desperately needed . |
| 2 | The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book . |
| 3 | There remains however the subtle difference that in this case no board member can be hijacked unless he or she is a willing and compliant co-conspirator . |
| 4 | We have locked them away , in the vain hope that by doing so we could make them disappear . |
| 5 | In the Reich the various German patriotic societies were designed to combat ‘ Jewish influence ’ , which was seen to be both ethnically alien and racially inferior , and also to be at the very heart of the economic change that at once afflicted and enriched German society . |
| 6 | But the insinuating eloquence of Brook Lane raised the awful spectre that behind the attractive veneer of high-speed motorbikes , Norton Group plc was being irresponsibly run . |
| 7 | One has the awful feeling that at this election , because of the recession and the loss of conviction which has accompanied the ending of the Thatcher era , this tendency may at last be triumphant . |
| 8 | I refer to the decision of the Labour Group that in the first instance all Conference items should be submitted to the Labour Group Executive for approval before being placed on a committee agenda . |
| 9 | ‘ … it is clear that , even on the absurd assumption that from one day to the next , or even from one generation to the next , the bourgeoisie would all take the places of workers and vice versa , nothing fundamental about capitalism would be changed , since the places of bourgeoisie and proletariat would still be there , and this is the principal aspect of the reproduction of capitalist relations ’ ( Poulantzas , 1975 , p. 33 ) . |
| 10 | We had the usual instructions that in the event of his death he should be buried here , and in those cases we do n't wait . |
| 11 | The parallel is not exact , but it underlines the usual perception that in education/industry partnerships education tends to receive while industry tends to give . |
| 12 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 13 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
| 14 | It must be a cause for concern to those of us in the public sector that in the period 1979–90 the percentage of children receiving private education increased from 5 per cent to 7.8 per cent a growth of over 50 per cent . |
| 15 | The problem , which has long troubled white consciences , has come to the fore now because of a decision by the High Court that in one case aborigines have a legal claim to lands where they hunted before the white man came . |
| 16 | He offers the unassailable proposition that without money there can be no inflation . |
| 17 | Added to this is the historical argument that in the tropics more of the available ‘ niches ’ are filled and that , because of ice ages or other environmental factors , temperate habitats are not yet saturated with species . |
| 18 | I regret that the seasonally adjusted figure went up by 700 to 121,600 last month , but I remind the hon. Gentleman that in January 1986 , the figure was over 170,000 . |
| 19 | As for the hon. Gentleman 's suggestion that the grant-maintained school policy might be paralysing the production of reorganisation proposals , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that in the past 12 months 150 proposals for school reorganisations were received and some 93 have so far been approved . |
| 20 | Among the German miscalculations that on various historical occasions have seemed Heaven-sent to save the Allies , Falkenhayn 's denial of reserves to the Crown Prince reminds one of Hitler halting his Panzers before they closed in on the BEF at Dunkirk , different though the motives may have been . |
| 21 | True or not , the marriage was , like most , full of ups and downs , and illustrated the French maxim that in an embrace , one kisses while the other offers the cheek . |
| 22 | Baldwin lanced this boil fairly quickly and quietly by an announcement to a party meeting on 11 February : ‘ I do not feel justified in advising the party again to submit the proposal for a general tariff to the country except on the clear evidence that on this matter public opinion is disposed to reconsider its judgment of two months ago . ’ |
| 23 | But what is of greater Baldwin significance is the clear indication that at this stage he had developed little of the pervading antipathy to wards Lloyd George which was to be the making of his own career . |
| 24 | Well , I remember my father saying of the old Baron that in his last illness he talked all the time of there being a grandson . |
| 25 | Alan Moses QC , prosecuting , told the Old Bailey that after evidence from Mr Clark which was ‘ not consistent ’ with his earlier statements , there was no longer a case to answer . |
| 26 | Rent-control policy in the inter-war period was the product in the main of three forces : pressure by property owners for complete control ; the Conservative Party belief that the Rent Acts were but a temporary measure to deal with a housing shortage ; and the social reality that without the protection of the Acts many working-class people would suffer considerably . |
| 27 | Referring to the biblical saying that in the resurrection men and women do not marry , the declaration comments that this does not mean that the distinction between man and woman is suppressed in the glorified state . |
| 28 | This label allowed us to start from the simple proposition that in some classrooms more than one teacher was present and to explore without preconception what they were doing . |
| 29 | Marxist theory begins with the simple observation that in order to survive , humans must produce food and material objects . |
| 30 | The preliminary conclusion , then , that emerges from our discussion so far is this : that the concept of a topic of discourse is analytically linked with that of identity and that there can be no question of " defining " this link in terms of the conditions of re-identification of such topics , whether they be meanings or non-meanings , for the simple reason that without presupposing the identity of the topic in a given case , the question of its " reidentification " can not even be intelligibly raised . |