Example sentences of "[prep] that of [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 | The household of the skilled potter became in income terms the equal of that of the lower clergy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In contrast , motorways account for 30% of the mileage covered by heavy goods vehicles ( and 45% of that of the largest lorries ) . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Arab rule , like that of the preceding conquerors , meant involvement in the wider fortunes of empires and dynasties around the Mediterranean . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | No one wants to shoot birds , but we must balance the survival of an entire species against that of a few individuals |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | James 's role , in fact , was not unlike that of the attacking centre-halves of the pre-1925 era . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ( 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 . ) |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The moneyers ' pieces can be dated by a comparison of their alloy with that of the royal issues . |