Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reiterating that ‘ there 's no such thing as ‘ race ’ ’ offers only the frail reassurance that there should n't be a problem . |
| 2 | However , one has not the slightest doubt that the moving spirits behind the coaches ' gathering will have been England 's Geoff Cooke and Australia 's Bob Dwyer . |
| 3 | A quotation ( provided by Randall Baker , private communication ) from a recent Australian funded cattle ranching scheme in Fiji illustrates both the unquestioned assumption that development must imply modern commercial development and the disparaging attitude towards existing social and economic organisation : |
| 4 | Sexuality lies emblazoned across the surface of pop culture in the careless whispers of countless love songs , yet this apparent confirmation of dominant sex codes — heterosexual , same-age , monogamous relationships — cloaks a far more ambiguous relationship to sex and gender that illustrates well the ambiguous standing that pop culture has within our society . |
| 5 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 6 | Another past champion graphically described this as the moment when the golfer blacks out and has n't the remotest idea that he is holding a putter at all . |
| 7 | Peter Wharton , charged with protecting the magician puppet , said : ‘ Sooty bears out the old truism that life begins at 40 1992 will see him gain legs and a new Nineties image . |
| 8 | Truly , William Blake put it most succinctly : ‘ A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees . ’ |
| 9 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |
| 10 | The availability of in vitro fertilization opens up the further possibility that the proembryo which is eventually implanted need not originate from an egg produced by the woman herself . |
| 11 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 12 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 13 | So you see , Miss Abbott , though he might never , on account of his birth , want for money , he lacks sadly the human love that lucre can in no way replace . |
| 14 | He points out the surprising truth that an accurate random sample of 1,000 people will work whether it is taken from a population of 5,000 , five million or 50 million . |
| 15 | ‘ It sends out the wrong signal that there should be two groups on the board of directors — the doers and the checkers , ’ said Peter Morgan , the IoD 's director general . |
| 16 | There are some very good photographs and some intriguing snippets of information — Michael Bowyer tells how the Operational Requirement that led to the Hampden and Wellington specified that the aircraft should have folding wings for hangar storage ! |
| 17 | For strict conventionalism gives only the negative advice that judges must not pretend to be deciding such cases on legal grounds . |
| 18 | Sir : In his article ‘ Creating money to buy trouble with ’ ( 9 October ) , William Rees-Mogg puts forward the surprising view that the early 1980s constitututed a ‘ Thatcherite miracle ’ . |
| 19 | He puts forward the radical solution that the range be given almost total protection as a wilderness area or area of land where the hand of man is less evident . |
| 20 | Jameson puts forward the familiar argument that society has lost any possibility of depth or effect , and is reduced to mere pastiche and superficial self-comment . |
| 21 | Several modifications have been made to this bridge in the century and a half since its completion , but it remains basically the same bridge that Telford designed , and was one of the great civil-engineering achievements of the period . |
| 22 | There remains however the subtle difference that in this case no board member can be hijacked unless he or she is a willing and compliant co-conspirator . |
| 23 | ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning . |
| 24 | ‘ This demonstrates clearly the financial situation that everyone is in . ’ |