Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll leave the tart for tomorrow — sinful to cancel the flavour of that lamb . ’ |
| 2 | On appeal , on the question whether the judge was entitled to refuse to allow the prosecution to discontinue the case at that stage and whether he was entitled to call the remaining witness : — |
| 3 | Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else . |
| 4 | It occurs to me we 're just about to circulate the picture of that man , Stein , suspected of wholesale fraud — so maybe we get them mixed up , Kurt . ’ |
| 5 | If the Leader of the House had had the foresight in those early days to see the merit in that legislation , he would not have felt it necessary tonight to move a savage guillotine motion to curtail debate on the measure . |
| 6 | French interests , on the other hand , were to see the break-up of that empire and King Philip Augustus , therefore , supported the Staufen cause and the candidature of Philip of Swabia . |
| 7 | I 'd like to see the back of that whipper-snapper , John Patten . |
| 8 | I realized he could not catch them , because they had nearly got to the ship , but I did not wait to see the end of that adventure . |
| 9 | Under the old system , the Leader of the PLP would be seen to enjoy the confidence of that body because it had elected him through an exhaustive ballot . |
| 10 | It was important , therefore , to compare the conclusion of that research with the results of the After Redundancy study which was based on contrasting socio-economic groups . |
| 11 | The persuasion rests on the assumptions that the forms of consultation practised and of participation prompted by the best employers are a measure of industrial democracy , but not enough : that the representation of employees on company boards is necessary to establish complete industrial democracy ; that total industrial democracy , in this prescription , will so far improve industrial efficiency as to benefit materially the general interest ; and that the implicit loss or diminution of the rights of ownership should not be allowed to preclude the realisation of that benefit . |
| 12 | We 've had to increase the cost of that estimate by , for three things . |
| 13 | One solution was the improvement of administrative and managerial efficiency , but emphasis was increasingly placed upon the need to improve the physical and productive efficiency of the mass of the population , and to increase the size of that population . |
| 14 | ‘ They should be considering how to increase the value of that pound in terms of francs , liras and pesetas , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The raft of policies that the Opposition are putting before the British people would be devastating to job prospects , and so ashamed are they of the consequences of their policies that four Labour members of the Select Committee on Employment last week voted down a proposal to hold an inquiry into the effects of national statutory minimum wage because they wanted to hide the truth about that policy from the British people . |
| 16 | For a long moment Fran stared-down at them , then slowly , reluctantly she looked up , to find the owner of that voice , a voice she remembered with a mind-spinning clarity . |
| 17 | If we are brought up to accept the doctrine of looking after number one , it is not surprising to find the result of that upbringing reflected in society . |
| 18 | Money is held to provide the basis for that level of abstraction at which people are regarded as fundamentally equal to one another , bereft for purposes of social construction of their personal characteristics . |
| 19 | Probably if you if you were to absorb the information in that guide book , that would be enough . |
| 20 | The object objective in six should be to minimize the loss of that land and to take the land in the l in the lower grade within the best and most versatile , rather than the higher grade . |
| 21 | I was trying to remember the name of that collar . |
| 22 | Well my question was to be erm would your guests be happy to return to a Kuwait the same as it was before , but having listened I feel somewhat enlightened , although perhaps they 'd still like to answer the question in that form . |
| 23 | But when the wind turned the leaves , the blackthorn flowers were enough to arrest the movement at that place . |
| 24 | Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires … |
| 25 | All I need to do is find how to open the threshold through that cave . ’ |
| 26 | Fundamental to everything was the bitter experience of Japanese colonialism and the determination to eliminate the legacy of that experience together with those who had collaborated with the Japanese . |
| 27 | This chapter seeks to chart the growth of that government assertiveness and to highlight some of the significant manifestations of its emergence . |
| 28 | Whilst it is intuitively obvious that the utility of most things declines over time , it is more difficult to identify the extent of that decline over a given period . |
| 29 | The female ‘ imaginary ’ which is often counterposed to the phallic code of the symbolic , belongs in history and culture as closely as the law of the father , and it has been the self-elected quest of women 's art to elucidate the character of that interaction , participation and combination . |
| 30 | Just as the enthronement of the dollar at the centre of the world 's monetary system symbolized US dominance at the end of the war , so the weakening of the dollar was to symbolize the erosion of that power . |