Example sentences of "[prep] that [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Arab rule , like that of the preceding conquerors , meant involvement in the wider fortunes of empires and dynasties around the Mediterranean . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | James 's role , in fact , was not unlike that of the attacking centre-halves of the pre-1925 era . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is the world of the underground man 's eruptive and unexplained ‘ They wo n't let me — I ca n't be — good ’ ; which world is itself continuous with that of the pre-Siberian stories , particularly The Double where Dostoevsky says he found his underground type . |
| 19 | ( I excluded the one woman who had a full-time job from this tabulation since this was the one respect in which her housework situation was not directly comparable with that of the other women . ) |
| 20 | There is a growing consensus that one of the major factors contributing to the relatively poor record of labour productivity in Britain is the low level of skill in the workforce compared with that of the major competitors . |
| 21 | The list of sons of the right sort , still available in this country , was miserably short in comparison with that of the golden lads who had come to dust in Flanders and other places . |
| 22 | France 's permitting the USA to use French air space and refuelling facilities , and accepting nominal US leadership of the 10,000 French troops involved was considered significant but France continued to equate the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait with that of the occupied territories by Israel . |
| 23 | This behaviour is consistent with that of the saturated samples and indicates that the lower rate of reduction of conductivity with pressure is not associated with electrolytic conduction but with some mechanism that becomes more efficient during compaction . |
| 24 | When mealworms were given to a group of meerkats by means of a cleverly designed dispenser their activity increased enormously and the pattern was on a par with that of the wild populations ; without such a dispenser they showed more lethargic , passive and atypical behaviour patterns . |
| 25 | The moneyers ' pieces can be dated by a comparison of their alloy with that of the royal issues . |
| 26 | The variability of the shifted features does not seem to correlate with that of the main features . |
| 27 | The behaviour of the Riemann tensor is contrasted with that of the metric connections in Fig. 6.4 . |
| 28 | This problem overlapped with that of the Public Schools generally , and he had already in the summer secured Cabinet approval for setting up a Public Schools Commission . |
| 29 | In the wind band , then , the clarinet family can form a complete entity covering a very wide range comparable with that of the orchestral strings . |
| 30 | The report must also state whether the auditors consider that the information given in the director 's report is consistent with that in the annual accounts and , if they are not satisfied , they must say so in the report . |