Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [that] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a true political democracy , such a declaration is of course perfectly allowable ; and none the less so for least that the general interest will not suffer from the exercise of the right ; and that the loss or diminution of any other opposed rights can be justified . |
| 2 | Consumption financed from government transfers ( pensions etc. ) rose from 5 per cent of GDP in 1952 to 10 per cent in 1973 , and it was partly to pay for this that the average proportion of incomes taken by direct taxation rose from 16 per cent in 1952 to 22 per cent in 1973 . |
| 3 | The express statutory definition of ‘ company ’ is only its prima facie meaning , since it is expressly provided in section 735(4) of the Act of 1985 that the defined meaning may be displaced where a contrary intention appears . |
| 4 | It was ironic in view of this that a hotly-disputed goal was to cost Arsenal the Cup in the 1932 final . |
| 5 | It was probably as a result of this that the Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury was impelled to describe his manners as being ‘ thus polished from the rust of Scottish barbarity ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed , it was directly as a consequence of this that the White Paper was so general in approach and so nebulous on crucial issues . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is because of this that an alternative method of picking was developed . |
| 8 | It was not until the Local Government Act of 1889 and the Burgh Police Act of 1892 that the Scottish spelling ‘ Burgh ’ became universal and firmly established in Scotland . |
| 9 | Central bankers were also concerned in the spring of 1991 that the German government might attempt to stave off the pressure on the mark by raising interest rates , a move which they felt would further depress the prospects for world economic growth ; by April , however , it appeared that global interest rates were at last starting to come down , with particularly strong declines in the United Kingdom , the United States and France . |
| 10 | A temporary replacement was hastily found , but it was not until the end of 1946 that a permanent appointment was made , that of Sgt. P. Merrey , recently retired from the Derbyshire Constabulary . |
| 11 | On top of all that the National Railway Museum has agreed that the T9 can be steamed for a limited number of occasions until May next year . |
| 12 | I share the opinion of many that a similar figure would have been more appropriate than the controversial statue of Air Marshal Harris outside St Clement Danes . |
| 13 | Therefore , there is a probability of 0.68 that the true value of beta will lie between 0.541 and 0.807 . |
| 14 | This led to calls for the reassertion of the values and practices of the Tokugawa period , or rather of those that the ruling élite regarded as according to the needs of post-1868 Japan . |
| 15 | Also , there is only a probability of 0.025 that the true difference between treatment groups in the population was greater than 16.8% ( upper limit of 95% CI ) . |
| 16 | It was on idiocies like this that the frail sisterhood thrived . |
| 17 | Let us recognize once and for all that the modest silence … has landed England in child harlotry . |
| 18 | This was hardly a comparison to Æthelred 's advantage , and must have occurred to many , who would doubtless have further agreed with Ælfric that a just war was one " against the cruel seamen or against other nations who desire to destroy our homeland " . |
| 19 | It is with these that the archaeological study of Romano-British mosaics is primarily concerned : the indicators of stylistic affinity upon which are based any suggestions of uniqueness of design , regularity between the interests of clients , the existence of aids to design i.e. pattern books , or the nature of the workforce employed . |
| 20 | The drovers ' roads of the Midlands were particularly important , for it was along these that the great traffic in cattle from Wales to London and the Midland markets found its leisurely way . |
| 21 | You will learn above all that a successful negotiation leaves both parties satisfied with the outcome . |
| 22 | Matthew Arnold echoed the belief in 1869 that the social system was groaning under the weight of ‘ those vast , miserable , unmanageable masses of sunken people — one pauper at the present moment , for every nineteen of us ’ . |
| 23 | Angel One had argued in vain that the actual heroin loss involved was negligible , most of it having been moved on , and that the setting up of a new base was only a matter of time and resourcefulness . |
| 24 | Relative peace ensued in Champagne in the years which followed , although it was not until the coronation of Louis XI in 1461 that the French nobility were able to express their new solidarity . |
| 25 | Setting up such a Common Fund proved even more difficult and it was not until 1986 that the required number of states ratified the agreement . |
| 26 | They still hoped in 1980 that the Palestinian issue — the demands of Palestinians who lost their homes in what is now Israel — could be dealt with as part of a general Arab–Israeli peace settlement , that the whole two and a half million Palestinian diaspora could be given a lump-sum , once-and-for-all payment of compensation . |
| 27 | It was not until 1903 that the famous rope of Ravanel , Giraud and Comte completed the first grand traverse of the Drus in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | You know , there 's no point in wasting your time you know , logging everybody else , and you go to the boss , and you say , boss you know that personal management skills course that I , you said I should go on , so you proving what , you know , what a good person you are , because you 've remembered a month later what the course was called , erm , I , I was told on that course to keep an interruptions log , so you 're proving , you know , that you are a good person when you 've done this , and i see from this that a great deal of your valuable time is being eroded by my humble concerns , you know , something like that . |
| 29 | Wittgenstein argued that the solipsist can not develop rules in the way required , and hence can not construct a language ; and we conclude from this that a certain programme in epistemology is not going to be available . |
| 30 | It logically follows from this that a fit person should need less sleep than an unfit one , or a man than a woman , or a grown-up than a child . |