Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [that] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Remarkably , the first sighting of Dr Johnson 's ‘ Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel ’ was in The New Republic in March 1989 ; by which time such a bedrock of well-meaning patriotism had been wedged under the case that it proved difficult , if not impossible , to shift . |
| 2 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 3 | His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , who having fled Tibet in 1959 — nine years after the country was occupied by China — lived in exile in India , welcomed the lifting of martial law but expressed the hope that it represented more than a superficial " public relations exercise " . |
| 4 | However , the fact that the ‘ soft left ’ has lost even the illusion that it runs Labour ( it lost the reality years ago ) opens up the possibility of realignment within the party . |
| 5 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 6 | It was only when no parking places were to be found anywhere near the hall that it became clear that this was not normal . |
| 7 | In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide . |
| 8 | The word ‘ sweet ’ is used so often throughout the scene that it loses all worth , in the same way that a Chaucerian epithet such as ‘ fresshe ’ comes to mean almost the opposite when continually applied to January 's wife May in The Merchant 's Tale . |
| 9 | That is the question this chapter leaves us , and it is the question that it left those who first heard the larger narrative being read . |
| 10 | With case study material print has an important role but there is always the danger that it goes astray or just does n't get read . |
| 11 | ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’ |
| 12 | The pluralist account is descriptively sound , therefore , but may be open to the charge that it ignores this broader vision of socio-economic and political change . |
| 13 | The Philips Report was so concerned about the increasing proportion of elderly people in the population that it thought some rise in the minimum pension-age inevitable . |
| 14 | It is the view of the group that it has another role in promoting dialogue on particular areas of concern : the comments on ‘ Data Sources and Research Methodology ’ produced last year are an example . |
| 15 | Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye . |
| 16 | This was open to the criticism that it imposed constructive liability : a person who risked a minor assault might be held guilty of a more serious offence if ‘ actual bodily harm ’ happened to result . |
| 17 | We voted against it on the ground that it seemed absurd to respond to a crisis in the beef sector simply by throwing yet more money into a system which has not been reformed . |
| 18 | People who say this , like me , always use the word ‘ kids ’ in the belief that it sounds open and democratic and leaps generation gaps at a bound . |
| 19 | It need not , therefore , be related to any act performed in the belief that it has normative consequences . |
| 20 | Whilst it rendered the monarch formally subordinate to Parliament in the sense that it became acknowledged that , at the end of the day , the will of Parliament was to prevail , it failed to provide adequately and efficiently for the discharge of executive government . |
| 21 | These are wishes of the ego , and they 're gratified in the illusion of religion , but as we 've also seen , Freud erm , notices even though he does n't comment , that the illusion of religion is pro-social , in the sense that it maintains social order , systems and morality , and so on . |
| 22 | Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’ |
| 23 | I mean , I mean I 'm sure it 's useful in the sense that it gets one person through er doing a degree who could n't have done it otherwise , but whether it would actually give you the sort of experience you want , I 'm much more doubtful . |
| 24 | However , in the world of Orwell 's 1984 there may be people who although sure that the events abolished by official historiography did happen , are not so sure that the experiences treasured in memory keep the value which official propaganda degrades ; they might be happier for the assurance that , in the sense that it remains true that an event happened even if universally forgotten an experience remains good even if in universally shrinking awareness there will never again be anyone capable of appreciating it . |
| 25 | Easier , in the sense that it bans Germanic tricks to limit the transfer of ownership ; but more difficult by requiring an offer to be made to all shareholders at the same price , once a firm has accumulated 30% of the shares . |
| 26 | The decision is logical , in the sense that it places local authorities in the same position as other builders . |
| 27 | The proposition that they sprinted up the hill is not equivalent to the proposition that they ran up the hill , but it is an interpretation of it in the sense that it shares certain contextual implications . |
| 28 | In a way this was not such a radically different view from Mannheim 's because the sociology of knowledge was sociologism in the sense that it held that truth was only ‘ true ‘ for ’ certain groups of men ’ ( Grunwald 1970 : 238 ) . |
| 29 | However , it should be remembered that this figure will be an underestimate in the sense that it excludes occasional users — ‘ chippers ’ and ‘ dabblers ’ . |
| 30 | Enquiries led me to owner Tony Allen and the information that it awaited final paperwork after having had floats fitted . |