Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during the 1980s that the hospitality industry started using the power of computers and communication technololgy . |
| 2 | I 'm talking about the the overshoot , and my comments about greenfield sites were related to period eighty one to ninety two , and it became quite clear during the eighties that the sketch plan green belt or development was at that time , through the eighties , was by and large abutting onto the urban area , that er through the eighties what everybody understood to the sketch plan green belt was tight up against er the urban area , so in resisting urban greenfield sites erm on the urban edge through the eighties the County Council were recognizing the greenbelt constraints . |
| 3 | It was a stunning performance , and certainly one of the finest that the league has ever produced . |
| 4 | Sadly , one of the grimmer interpretations of the word ‘ experience ’ loomed in ugly manner over the last few days of the tour and may overshadow some of the good that the trip has produced . |
| 5 | Then , on 8 May , the Secretary of State suddenly announced out of the blue that the advertising of that post was to be put on ice . |
| 6 | It was at the end of the Fifties that the joke became popular about one high-powered executive calling another on his car telephone only to be told : ‘ He 's on the other line ’ . |
| 7 | Rather than eliminate any further jobs on top of the 1,000 that the company has budgeted to shed this year , IBM UK Ltd chief executive Nick Temple is expected to ask senior staffers to bear some of the pain and accept pay reductions — and it could happen : Temple has been telling anyone who will listen that if IBM UK makes a penny profit this year , it will be the most amazing turnround in corporate history . |
| 8 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
| 9 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 10 | It may be seen from the above that the controversy between ‘ past use ’ and imprint date as a criterion for weeding has still to be resolved . |
| 11 | It can be seen from the above that the Finance Act 1988 regime seeks to tax increases in value arising in management 's ( and indeed employees ' ) shares in Newco after those shares are acquired . |
| 12 | unc It is apparent from the first that the vector elements are changing sign ; so we do not reduce a homologous element to unity ( though in general we might periodically remove a power of 10 ) . |
| 13 | He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross . |
| 14 | A large crowd greeted him upon his release from Jakarta 's Cipinang prison , despite warnings from the military that the occasion should not be politicized . |
| 15 | It was not primarily from the left that the groundswell of absolute pacifism emerged in the later 1930s . |
| 16 | The earlier charters after 1135 gave rights to the latter but it was not until the 1220s that the authority of the episcopal servants was finally replaced by elected bailiffs , soon to become the mayors . |
| 17 | It was not until the 1970s that the use of polyethylene terephthalate as a polymer for the rigid packaging market began , but since then its growth has been explosive . |
| 18 | It was not until the 1890s that the railway companies themselves entered the promotional market . |
| 19 | It was not until the 1950s that the investment role of the services began to play a greater part in government debates while the 1960s are the period par excellence of the human capital theory and theorists . |
| 20 | It was not until the 1830s that the idea of a teaching laboratory became at all general ; at Durham University then , for example , laboratory instruction was still an optional extra , to be paid for if taken . |
| 21 | Was it , perhaps , in the 1960s that the notion became clear that no idol can exist without feet of clay ? |
| 22 | Thus it is in the former that the manufacturer has the greater strategic motive for vertical separation , setting wholesale prices and charging franchise fees . |
| 23 | Bishop Rathier of Verona wrote in the 930s that the church was one in all its bishops ; that not Jerusalem , not Rome , not Alexandria , had received a special prerogative of rule to the exclusion of others ( he tucks Rome pointedly into the middle ) . |
| 24 | We have assumed in the above that the operation code field is fixed in length , but we may be able to make better use of the instruction length by having a variable.length operation code field . |
| 25 | It was under Somes 's sole ownership in the 1830s that the firm rose to become the largest in England . |
| 26 | During the 1960s these two sea-adventures were republished for young readers in Penguin 's Puffin division ; there was more confidence then than there seems to be in the eighties that the accessibility of Masefield 's story lines and his energetic prose would justify offering to capable readers in the early and mid-teens novels written for adults . |
| 27 | One feature of life in the 1980s that the crisis did little to alter was the precarious existence of members of the upper reaches of the Iraqi system . |
| 28 | It was in the 1880s that the Ministry of Finance began to coordinate its tariff , fiscal , and investment policies to extend the railway lines already laid . |
| 29 | Such vandalism would have required periodic repairs , and it was during one such overhaul in the 1860s that the window shutters were replaced . |
| 30 | It was only when Leicas started to gain popularity in the 1930s that the developer was also found to be very suitable for giving high actuance and sharpness at much higher dilutions with the new miniature films . |