Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's White Paper on Science and Technology is set to have a significant effect on universities , industry and education after its announcement that the funding priorities of the £6 billion R&D budget will be aimed at harnessing Britain 's strengths to enhance wealth creation . |
| 2 | It was not until after his death that the source of the problem was really understood . |
| 3 | So much for her hope that the Sûreté would turn out to have solved the case for her . |
| 4 | Rain wished for her sake that the cup had not rattled in the saucer . |
| 5 | Rothenberg 's involvement in this powerful feminist art form has been perpetuated through her belief that the act of painting is ‘ an extension of the performing body ’ . |
| 6 | A rumour ran through their number that the carbon tetrachloride with which they worked would have the same effect as too intimate a connection with the servicemen on whose behalf they were working to supply the equipment . |
| 7 | Inside there is more marble , — the marbled floor is very good — but it is for its art that the interior is famous . |
| 8 | The 1961 Programme , hailed by Khrushchev as a ‘ Communist Manifesto of the modern era ’ , was best known for its assumption that the achievement of a fully communist society had become an ‘ immediate practical task for the Soviet people ’ . |
| 9 | The origin legend of the Merovingians as recorded by Fredegar is important not only for its suggestion that the family claimed to be descended from a supernatural ancestor , but also for the implications it has for the rise of the dynasty . |
| 10 | Ashton 's ordinance for setting up Shrewsbury School is often quoted today for its specification that the building should include " a library and a gallery for the said school , furnished with all manner of books , maps , spheres , instruments of astronomy arid all things appertaining to learning . " |
| 11 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 12 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 13 | If a customer asks a broker to deal on an exchange it is usually an implied term of their contract that the broker will do so in accordance with the usages of that exchange . |
| 14 | In what was regarded then as some perverse flourish of American protocol , ‘ Admiral ’ Perry then gave the papers to two of his black mariners — ‘ the best-looking fellows of their colour that the squadron could furnish ’ — and instructed them to hand them over . |
| 15 | But sociological explanations of this kind have nevertheless been incorporated into the general category of positivist criminology because of their implication that the invention is not freely made but forced : some problem confronted by individuals in their environment pushes them out of convention and into crime . |
| 16 | Yet it would be unjust to deny the legislators the sincerity of their conviction that the transformation of land into a freely alienable commodity and the transformation of communal , ecclesiastical , entailed or other historically obsolete relics of an irrational past into private holdings , would alone provide a basis for satisfactory agricultural development . |
| 17 | In 1922 the Conservative/Liberal Coalition led by Lloyd George which had ruled Britain since 1918 was overthrown by a revolt of Conservative back-benchers who refused to accept the advice of their leaders that the Coalition should continue . |
| 18 | The Turks made little secret of their pleasure that the majority of the Central Asian delegations spoke in Turkish at the summit . |
| 19 | The frustrations which Bridgeman and Maxse expressed towards the party hierarchy were the product of their belief that the leadership was not responding adequately to the party 's ‘ crisis ’ , and in particular not accepting the kind of programme which could bring the party back to power . |
| 20 | So attached are the Milanese to this symbol of their city that no building that is close to it is allowed to overtop it . |
| 21 | The killings provided ammunition to Iraq in support of its contention that a solution to the Gulf crisis had to be linked to Israel 's withdrawal from Arab lands . |
| 22 | It was not until the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 1981 that the law in Northern Ireland was in breach of its convention that the process of reform started there , bringing change that was fifteen years behind England and Wales , and twenty-five years after the publication of the Wolfenden Report . |
| 23 | As Marwick has argued , ‘ It is only through knowledge of its history that a society can have knowledge of itself ’ , and Carr has said that ‘ The more sociological history becomes and the more historical sociology becomes , the better for both . ’ |
| 24 | 193 in support of its view that the quota system permitted member states to derogate from the E.E.C . |
| 25 | The general theory of relativity , on its own , can not explain these features or answer these questions because of its prediction that the universe started off with infinite density at the big bang singularity . |
| 26 | As she dragged Susan 's limp form away from the fire , she noticed with one part of her brain that a sheet of paper had just begun to burn . |
| 27 | It was during this phase of her life that the name ‘ Sir Berkeley ’ was added . |
| 28 | Leonora smiled diffidently , blinking with surprise at the sight of Charity , who was such a mirror image of her twin that the effect was electrifying . |
| 29 | In this case , however , the performer is Patricia Routledge , and such is the assurance of her grasp that the occasion is a masterclass in theatrical craft . |
| 30 | Bruce Walker , an old Africa hand , commented , of her assertion that the Bubis , like the Fans , pulled out their eyebrows , ‘ Surely she means eyelashes ’ . |