Example sentences of "[prep] that [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As other forms of control and influence , such as that of the lower clergy , diminished , the people were given a space in which to make their own culture . |
| 2 | For the mid-nineteenth-century observer all history coexisted at the same time , except for that of the ancient civilisations and empires such as classical antiquity , which had been ( literally ) buried , awaiting the spades of H. Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) in Troy and Mycenae or Flinders Petrie ( 1853–1942 ) in Egypt . |
| 3 | In a study of 6000 children aged 10–12 , ‘ children who approved of cigarette advertising were twice as likely to become smokers as children who disapproved ’ with the smoking behaviour of those who were ambivalent about advertising falling between that of the two groups … |
| 4 | Nevertheless the true incidence curve probably lies somewhere between that of the two studies . |
| 5 | Despite a rise in tax revenue as a proportion of GDP of 4.0% over this thirteen year period , the UK tax burden in 1989 continued to lie well below that in the Scandinavian countries , where over half of GDP was taken in tax and social security contributions in that year , and below other major competitors such as France and Germany . |
| 6 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |
| 7 | The household of the skilled potter became in income terms the equal of that of the lower clergy . |
| 8 | The first conclusion I reach , therefore , is that a Single European Currency is not in Britain 's interest nor , as it happens , of that of the other countries of Europe . |
| 9 | In contrast , motorways account for 30% of the mileage covered by heavy goods vehicles ( and 45% of that of the largest lorries ) . |
| 10 | I set out with a more or less religious belief in a Platonic , eternal world , in which mathematics shares with a beauty , shines , I 'm sorry , with a beauty of that of the last cantos of the Paradiso . ’ |
| 11 | They realized there would be difficulties in discrediting the evidence of Mr Ross 's false identification of Meehan 's voice and of that of the planted pieces of paper , but nonetheless remained optimistic . |
| 12 | One barometer of health — LTOM 's volume of contracts traded compared with the volume of underlying stocks — is less than half of that at the European Options Exchange in Amsterdam or the Chicago Board Options Exchange . |
| 13 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 14 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 15 | They stayed like that for a few seconds , both breathing hard , their mouths almost touching . |
| 16 | The name Alnasr Alwasheek somehow just does n't roll off the tongue like that of a 2,000 Guineas winner and would rank high among a long list of awkward names of Arab-owned horses . |
| 17 | Arab rule , like that of the preceding conquerors , meant involvement in the wider fortunes of empires and dynasties around the Mediterranean . |
| 18 | Larval termites look like those most primitive of insects , the bristletails ; larval horseshoe crabs are visibly segmented and so reveal a similarity with the trilobites difficult to perceive in the adult ; the free-swimming molluscan larva looks very like that of the segmented worms and thus suggests a link between the two groups . |
| 19 | During the period of Chinese disunity the Japanese had supported the powerful warlord , Zhang Zuolin , who ruled Manchuria as his private province for much of the 1920s , but Zhang 's position , like that of the other warlords , began to come under threat from the rise of the Nationalist movement under Chiang Kai-shek ( Zhiang Jishe ) . |
| 20 | He had a smart head , Charlie ; he learned that his success , like that of the other bands , was guaranteed by his ability to insult the media . |
| 21 | This movement exposes the active site ( pink ) , consisting of a catalytic triad like that of the serine proteinases , which lies at the bottom of a hydrophobic canyon in the catalytic amino-terminal domain of the protein . |
| 22 | In the sixteenth century , and to a considerable extent in the seventeenth also , their function , like that of the French secretaries under the last Valois kings , was merely executive . |
| 23 | All this may seem obvious , but in fact it had not worked out like that in the earlier days of the cutters as I recall . |
| 24 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |
| 25 | No one wants to shoot birds , but we must balance the survival of an entire species against that of a few individuals |
| 26 | Regarded as more independent of the President than Akbulut had been , his appointment as Prime Minister was nevertheless interpreted by some observers as an attempt by Özal to boost the influence within the ANAP of a secular , liberal tendency against that of the Islamic fundamentalists . |
| 27 | James 's role , in fact , was not unlike that of the attacking centre-halves of the pre-1925 era . |
| 28 | Classical Macedon was however organized in a manner unlike that of the Greek states who dominate the history of the period — that is , Sparta , Athens and the cluster of poleis round the Isthmus of Corinth . |
| 29 | Meciar 's government had rejected an economic programme drawn up by Deputy Premier Jozef Kucerak which followed the reform strategy of the federal government , creating fears among Meciar 's critics that Slovakia 's economy would lag behind that of the Czech Lands . |
| 30 | It is tempting to compare the role of the Commissioner with that of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality , bodies that are empowered to support individual cases in connection with complaints about discrimination on grounds of sex or race respectively . |