Example sentences of "of [noun] that the " in BNC.

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1 It is only by stressing the element of play that the imposition of totalitarian meaning of any kind can be avoided .
2 It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ .
3 The essential vulnerability reinforces the requirement that the starting point of design should be a clarification of objectives followed by a consideration of the criteria of assessment that the objectives have been achieved .
4 The Bar was the sort of impenetrable club with its own set of values that the Thatcher administration instinctively distrusted .
5 But neither reached the noise and level of support that the Wallaby parade received .
6 By then , warnings were already blowing in the post-imperial winds of change that the all-regular Army might soon be overstretched trying to maintain stability in the final stages of Britain 's withdrawal from Empire .
7 Management in particular is not about the preservation of the status quo , it is about maintaining the highest rate of change that the organization and the people within it can stand .
8 He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance .
9 You should make it a condition of payment that the gang supplies a Polaroid photograph of your father holding the mornings paper on the day the drop is made .
10 Land in this category tends to sell at inflated prices , over the current use value , varying from a marginal surcharge , to perhaps 50% over the value of building land , depending on the degree of hope that the site will receive planning approval in due course .
11 It is not as it may be interpreted a message of hope that the sun might still wake him but rather one of despair that even the sun is at a loss and does not know how to wake him .
12 Perhaps it is hindsight which has allowed us to understand fully the sheer technique that went into Bogart 's acting but many people at Warners could see Mayo 's point that he was just the type of actor needed to breathe life into the kind of story that the writers were making into a speciality .
13 Also the mothers are reluctant to reduce the amount of milk in the child 's diet because they know that this is the only form of nutrition that the child accepts .
14 When we were in our twenties , we thought that life was full enough just thinking about ourselves in those long periods of freedom that the twenties offered , without having to fill them up with anything else .
15 The key to the success of the project is the relationship between the agencies and the host department , and the degree of freedom that the agencies will be allowed .
16 I mean you ask what it 's like erm being a member of the majority Labour group , being the leader of the City Council , it 's extremely hard work , it 's an enormous responsibility , and on many occasions it 's extremely frustrating because the amount of freedom that the City Council has to decide its policy and decide its spending priorities is reducing all the time .
17 The raft of policies that the Opposition are putting before the British people would be devastating to job prospects , and so ashamed are they of the consequences of their policies that four Labour members of the Select Committee on Employment last week voted down a proposal to hold an inquiry into the effects of national statutory minimum wage because they wanted to hide the truth about that policy from the British people .
18 The only way to get proper growth is to have an economic recovery based on low inflation and proper investment , not on the sort of policies that the right hon. Gentleman has advocated .
19 In 1875 a contributed an article on the Bible to Encyclopedia Britannica , in which he considered and in part accepted the hypothesis of Wellhausen that the first five books of the Old Testament were composites , made up of different interwoven literary strands .
20 We hope that further exploration will reveal the degree of protection that the palace had . ’
21 The Accountant 's Report ( Controlled Trust Accounts ) Amendment Rules 1992 give details of checks that the reporting accountant must now make .
22 A duty of care founded on creditor interests , in contrast , might in theory constrain the pursuit of maximum profits since it is in the interests of creditors that the company should undertake low risk , but sub-profit- maximising , projects , given an entitlement to a fixed return .
23 A problem with the presentation of the foregoing data is to assess the amount of responsibility that the government has for the policies .
24 In any case , no head is powerful enough to carry effectively the sort of responsibility that the management of the National Curriculum , in the context of the rest of the Act , will bring .
25 to avoid any possible misunderstanding about the nature of the work performed and the degree of responsibility that the firm is taking for the information contained in the report , it is preferable for the report distribution to be limited to those with a clear appreciation of the purpose and nature of the engagement .
26 It is therefore in the true interests of defence that the claims of military expenditure should be considered in conjunction with the need to maintain the country 's financial and economic strength .
27 Desperate food shortages continued in Tskhinvali , and it was reported at the end of March that the town 's vital road link to North Ossetia had been cut by Georgian armed bands .
28 Overall , it appeared by the middle of March that the Gulf environment was proving more resilient than had been feared , but environmentalists cautioned that the full extent of the damage would not be apparent for some time , particularly as the oil sank to the bed of the shallow Gulf , where it would damage vital food plants .
29 We saw in regard to the coming of agriculture that the introduction of weaning produced reactions in early agricultural populations which are detectable in their religious , literary and mythical culture .
30 Eliot , in The Use of Poetry , quoted Jacques Rivière : ‘ It is only with the advent of Romanticism that the literary act came to be conceived as a sort of raid on the absolute and its results as a revelation . ’
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