Example sentences of "the [noun pl] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had heard tales of the sunshine , the flowers and bright colours of the upper world , but her father warned her of the perils that haunted the surface , in particular the giants that in those days walked the wilds of Dartmoor . |
| 2 | In his opening speech , the chair Ruslan Khasbulatov [ for whose election see p. 38537 ] warned the deputies that after the break-up of the Soviet Union the Congress had no longer the excuse of central Union power to influence its deliberations ; the Congress now represented , he emphasised , the highest legislative body of a sovereign state . |
| 3 | It is a sign of the times that despite the cost research is continuing . |
| 4 | But it is a sign of the times that in many universities around the world this kind of approach is actually ahead of the British system , largely because language awareness can be built into reading courses as part of the overall language-learning curriculum . |
| 5 | Yet for all their meanness , we learn from the minutes that by the end of 1907 nine holes were open , as was the clubhouse , and that several men , ladies and boys had been elected as members . |
| 6 | It is clear from the authorities that for these reasons a failure to comply with the requirements of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 is fatal to the lawfulness of the committal . |
| 7 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |
| 8 | How much of the great-sinner project remained unachieved and how much dissolved itself into the books that in fact got written , can be debated endlessly . |
| 9 | When stories appear along the lines that in another life you were a peasant girl who starved to death during Ireland 's potato famine you know you 've arrived . |
| 10 | Their lifestyle contains all the ingredients that for us make up ‘ the good life ’ — plenty of time devoted to playing , socialising , and making love . |
| 11 | Early writers had not analysed clearly enough the elements that by changing constituted a directional advance . |
| 12 | John Campbell of Mamore , however , had one powerful weapon at his disposal to reinforce his will , for he told the commissioners that for the future ‘ none but sure friends should be nominate[d] ’ commissioners of supply , ‘ and that all others should be razed out ’ . |
| 13 | The accounting policy note on turnover adds : ‘ It is the opinion of the directors that excluding such sales from turnover would understate the group 's activities and as such would fail to give a true and fair view . ’ |
| 14 | The topic was the focus of a meeting held at Erice in Italy in March 1981 , and this book collects the papers on alternatives to the tokamaks that at present dominate fusion . |
| 15 | Erm presumably we are talking here next year , talking about sort of years effects , and I just wondered what would be the effects that in general terms if we were looking at the full year effects ? |
| 16 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 17 | There is a second point stated to have been resolved , viz. : ‘ That payment of a lesser sum on the day can not be any satisfaction of the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum . ’ |
| 18 | It is thanks to the emigres that in America and Europe ballet has been on the move all century ; in Russia itself , it has been left in a museum . |
| 19 | But in years 4 and 5 , the years that in other schools would be devoted to working for the GCSE with continuously assessed course-work , and when the TVEI scheme would also be introduced , we are told nothing whatever about examinations , only that the pupils will not have a wide choice of subjects . |
| 20 | I mean in so I I come here today with a petition that I presented that also talks about proposing to abolish the merger , I mean this is a move just one step away from that but I still feel in what was proposed at the last full council meeting and I would express my views to the officers that in light of what has been suggested today is actually implemented to the wording as it stands because the joint working party that had been er written up previously never did meet although if I can inform it was only the officers who actually met up and I hope that in light of all the working group and the two heads of centres covering for each other would be implicitly applied . |
| 21 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 22 | Now er the things that of course was er was only different skill using colours and patterns but y y you understand that the Fair Isles were developed on pins , and you notice the patterns were always small and I think you know the practical reasons for that . |
| 23 | And really we ought to be concentrating far more upon the other other changes which are proposed other than the Trusts and the things that in fact are fo far worse in my my own opinion . |
| 24 | It is about the most fundamental human freedoms , of speech and thought and belief : these are the things that in the end matter most , as Salman Rushdie himself knows , and stresses . |
| 25 | Thus , it can be calculated from the figures that in 1951–52 over 72% of all WEA ‘ centres ’ in the Eastern District were in places with populations of less than 5,000 ; only 10% were in places with over 20,000 people . |
| 26 | I was gon na be happy to move the recommendation sir and anyone who 's aware of the traffic problem in London Road Brandon will , will support that and also sir the figures that in the questionnaire that was sent out support route A , emphatically because you 'll notice that double the people er double the number who returned the questionnaire supported route A as opposed to any of the other alternatives , so , so I think the , the recommendation that we were to accept this morning 's various adequately worded and , and accepted . |
| 27 | It is not the purpose of this book to study these problems , but rather the changes that in an earlier century began to alter our attitude towards death . |
| 28 | So convinced were the farmers that in July they delayed the trebbiatura , the threshing of the grain , hoping that they could do it under Allied administration ; they thought they would probably get 700 lire more for each sack . |
| 29 | However , there is irrefutable evidence that there will be a shortfall , and if we do not ensure that that gap is identified and ascertain where the resources to meet that gap will come from , not only will the people who are currently seeking community care be disadvantaged , but , more importantly , future generations who might seek care in the community will not receive the resources that at present they believe that they will get . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ At the last election the Tories shouted from the rooftops that with them in power there would be no tax increase . |