Example sentences of "[prep] that [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On neurophysiological grounds one would expect there to be considerable differences between different individuals with regard to the most effective channels of learning ; therefore , one must regard statements such as that quoted with a certain amount of scepticism . |
| 2 | Chests like that belonged to a different age , a dangerous age of swashbucklers , and buccaneers who gloried in their toughness , stripped themselves to the elements , and laughed , bare-chested , into the teeth of icy sea-winds . |
| 3 | This results in a common word like " History " being assigned a weight which is very low compared with that assigned to a rare word such as " swords " . |
| 4 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 5 | Although the nature of the 1:50,000 potency created is different from that created by a 1:100 ratio ( ‘ … my new method produces medicines of the highest power and the mildest action … ’ §270 ) it is interesting to note the theoretical relationship with the centesimal scale . |
| 6 | A goal of short-term profit maximisation implies conduct different in important respects from that required by a long-term profit goal . |
| 7 | Regardless of the methods used , however , the quality of print is superb and is referred to as ‘ letter ’ or ‘ correspondence ’ quality indicating that it is indistinguishable from that produced by a professional office typewriter . |
| 8 | There were fears that if the date for stabilisation was altered from that promised in a recent government white paper , the privatisation of the electricity industry would be jeopardised . |
| 9 | A procedure for the righting of wrongs which depends on peace-making and on the payment of enough compensation to make the peace hold , implies a different notion of justice from that embodied in a penal code in which offences are offences against the state . |
| 10 | Indeed , the line between ‘ predation ’ and dispersal mechanism is hazy in that plants with a small numbers of seeds in any season may lose the whole crop to ‘ dispersal agents ’ . |
| 11 | The county court said that it was not , this interpretation being opposite to that reached by a different county court . |
| 12 | Morphologically the stomach is similar to that seen with a conventional anterior/posterior view barium meal . |
| 13 | Even so , the advice is similar in principle to that given for a westward flight . |
| 14 | Unlike Grinley , Green did not own his own hearse and mourning coaches and was probably more at home performing in-parish funerals similar to that shown in a contemporary engraving by William Hogarth on a funeral ticket issued between 1730 and 1750 by Humphrey Drew , the King Street , Westminster , undertaker . |
| 15 | For example , using the manual cost breakdown already discussed it would be possible to expand such a system to provide the following : ( a ) A printout of costs in a simplified form , identical to that outlined for a manual system — directly employed labour , labour-only subcontractors , etc . |
| 16 | In fact the worst stress is concentrated within an area about equivalent to that covered by a single atomic bond . |
| 17 | But it failed to recognize that the challenge of running an individual company was very different to that posed by a large public organization with a multiplicity of purposes whose owners were n't shareholders but taxpayers who felt entitled to demand access to those things the nation already owned . |