Example sentences of "that [noun] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment . |
| 2 | His wife Kathy , who organised the walk , admits that Ian goes to hell and back on the walks . |
| 3 | It is at the local level that change needs to be assessed and at which the variety of political forces at work was best displayed . |
| 4 | Eliminating the risk element in electricity prices is the most important benefit that ICI expects from the planned 1725MW Enron power station on Teesside . |
| 5 | Lord Denning M.R. said that liability extends to a case where a ‘ third person prevents or hinders one party from performing his contract , even though it be not a breach . ’ |
| 6 | Where the objection does dent it , however , is in the ambiguity of key terms like ‘ fellow countrymen ’ , something that MacIver points to . |
| 7 | It appears that play begins during the period when the separation between consciousness and unconsciousness is becoming more deeply dichotomized , and that , following the development of language , objects never again have such a prominent place in our articulation or self-expression . |
| 8 | If Parliament had meant to say that any distribution or publication should suffice , it could very easily have said so ; the courts are bound to make sense of the words that Parliament has in fact used . |
| 9 | Somewhat anomalously , reference may even be made to later statutes , to see the meaning that Parliament puts on the same words in a similar context . |
| 10 | Well , they each seem to do one thing well enough , but fail to realise that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time . |
| 11 | They are a reminder that faith speaks of life that is unbroken by death . |
| 12 | Looking after three young children , being involved in various groups as well as doing part-time evening work means that Faith depends on food that 's quick and convenient to prepare . |
| 13 | A confidential Ministry of Information report , written in April 1968 , revealed that the two papers owed Sh.900,000/ — to the printers , who threatened to discontinue working on them altogether unless this amount were paid and an assurance received from the Treasury that printing costs for the rest of the financial year would be met . |
| 14 | The fact that progress appears to be being made with respect to MNC environmental scanning practices should not be overly comforting to MNC executives . |
| 15 | He states that ideology consists of the beliefs and values of a ruling group which ‘ obscures the real condition of society both to itself and others and thereby stabilizes it ’ . |
| 16 | This is approved on the understanding that RVA works in closer partnership with Christian Aid . |
| 17 | Certainly there can be no doubt that Islam looks at its most impressive in a great urban cathedral mosque , especially on an occasion like Id . |
| 18 | There is the troubling dictum of Lord Roskill in Seymour [ 1983 ] 2 AC 493 that Caldwell applies to all offences , unless Parliament otherwise ordains , but that statement has not been followed in non-fatal offences . |
| 19 | These results show that tenascin has at least 16 consecutive fibronectin like type III repeats . |
| 20 | This dilemma is given prominence in the distinction that Nizan draws between " balance-sheet novels " ( " romans-bilan " ) , which take stock of a finalised historical period , and " problem-centred novels " ( " romans-probleme " ) which focus on contemporary issues . |
| 21 | The conclusion that Nizan draws from this is the need to displace the focus of attention in the novel away from an outdated preoccupation with individual psychology and to direct the reader 's attention to the complex interaction between the public and the private spheres , to focus in short on the tragic destiny that links the individual to his social group and his social environment.66 Special attention , in other words , was to be paid to the political and social dimension of human existence . |
| 22 | The Proconsul is not interested in the fact that Polycarp believes in the existence of another god . |
| 23 | The idea that damage relates to the localisation of the chemoattractant , whether mucosal or luminal , is supported by data in the experimental animal.2 |
| 24 | Mm , that 's right , I mean the fact that agriculture tends to be perfectly com right , why there tends to be a lot of independent small producers is because there are no economies of scale , you know , apart from beyond , you know , a certain size of farm , you know , stud studies in the U K show that once you get , get beyond about two thousand hectares there are , there are significant dis-economies of scale , and although there are economies of scale up to that point , and that 's only in the case of very specialist types of production , by and large once you 've got a farm in excess of five hundred hectares , erm , you start to run into dis-economy , and mostly managerial dis-economies of scale . |
| 25 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 26 | The floor machine was in the living room , the long black thing that Marcus rubs on the carpet snaking in front of the sofa . |
| 27 | The dust allergy means that Will has to be bedded on paper , and his hay always has to be soaked . |
| 28 | It is becoming increasingly essential that Carling recovers from his strained thigh muscle in time for Saturday 's first Test against the All Blacks . |
| 29 | In doing so , they would highlight the various roles that money plays in society : a medium of exchange or of speculation , a store of value , and so on . |
| 30 | For the next two chapters we are going to look at the special role that money plays in the economy . |