Example sentences of "that [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that eating in the kitchen has an attraction all its own . |
| 2 | The social services departments supervise the child during the statutory three-month period that elapses between the notification of adoption proceedings and the making of an adoption order by the court ; a social worker is usually appointed as a guardian ad litem , i.e. for the duration of the case , to interview the prospective adopters , investigate the relevant circumstances and report to the court . |
| 3 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 4 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 5 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 6 | The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest . |
| 7 | Standard features can include items such as leather trimmed steering wheel , one-touch electric window controls , exterior temperature indicator , electrically adjustable door mirrors and even a specially-shaped garment case that stows on the underside of the rear parcel shelf . |
| 8 | It would , therefore , make sense if axons played a part in controlling the number of oligodendrocytes that develop in a myelinated tract . |
| 9 | These findings suggest that axonal electrical activity normally controls the production and/or release of the growth factors that are responsible for proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells and thereby helps to control the number of oligodendrocytes that develop in the region . |
| 10 | The stability of the enterprise conditions of calculation that develop in the East Asian example has not been productive of the formation of high-risk entrepreneurial behaviour as firms launch into speculative and unrelated lines of business . |
| 11 | Gallstones are lumps that develop in the gall bladder when the chemical balance of the bile is upset — and women are two or three times more likely to have them than men are . |
| 12 | A major problem that arose at an early stage was the reconciliation of the local authority 's requirements for one car-parking space per flat with the DoE 's refusal to fund a scheme in which the entire ground floor would be used for parking . |
| 13 | An error that arose on the consolidation of the capital gains legislation into TCGA 1992 will be corrected in next year 's Finance Bill . |
| 14 | Coupled with problems that arose with the apparatus — UA1 for example was beset by difficulties ranging from dirty air-lines to burst pipes — it was not until last November and December that the experiments were able to observe a large sample of proton-antiproton collisions . |
| 15 | The later theory of instincts , which included the death instincts , as well as the sexual instincts which were retained from the first formulation , seemed to solve the theoretical difficulties that arose with the first theory of instincts . |
| 16 | On all the imperial and foreign policy issues that arose over the succeeding years ( the Cold War , Germany , the Atlantic Alliance , Indochina , Korea , the European Defence Community ) , he insisted on defining a " party line " . |
| 17 | The earliest land plants , to be found in Silurian and Devonian rocks , had simple shoots that arose from a creeping ‘ axis ’ , which were little different in structure from the shoots themselves . |
| 18 | What really concerns him , however , is the lack of progress on the national strategy for waste disposal that arose from the Gradouge incident . |
| 19 | The USSR as such was held to have ‘ ended its existence ’ , but the members of the Commonwealth pledged themselves to discharge the obligations that arose from the 15,000 or so international treaties and agreements to which the USSR had been a party . |
| 20 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 21 | They must be attentive to all the susceptibilities that people might have in this connection , and ensure that all of them played a part in resolving the tasks that arose in a society of this kind . |
| 22 | In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 23 | In the case of the RUC it is essential to reflect on the problems that arose in the research . |
| 24 | In other words , there was a growth in the use of ‘ framework legislation ’ , with Parliament establishing a general framework for controlling or regulating an area of activity and granting to governmental agencies both rule-making powers to put flesh on the framework or quasi-judicial powers to resolve disputes that arose in the course of implementing these schemes . |
| 25 | On this evidence it seems possible that a large part of the conflict that arose in the administration of the NIRC was the result of a belief of its president that , in industrial conflicts , one side can be discovered , after proper examination by judges , to be ‘ right ’ and the other side ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 26 | One question that arose in the Court of Appeal was whether this decision was subject to judicial review . |
| 27 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 28 | The stand-up collar was lace , too , as was the diamond-shaped inset that plunged to the V of her breasts . |
| 29 | Blake speculates that the rocks were probably the upper edge of a continental fragment that plunged under the North American plate . |
| 30 | When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris . |