Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social services departments supervise the child during the statutory three-month period that elapses between the notification of adoption proceedings and the making of an adoption order by the court ; a social worker is usually appointed as a guardian ad litem , i.e. for the duration of the case , to interview the prospective adopters , investigate the relevant circumstances and report to the court . |
| 2 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 3 | Standard features can include items such as leather trimmed steering wheel , one-touch electric window controls , exterior temperature indicator , electrically adjustable door mirrors and even a specially-shaped garment case that stows on the underside of the rear parcel shelf . |
| 4 | An error that arose on the consolidation of the capital gains legislation into TCGA 1992 will be corrected in next year 's Finance Bill . |
| 5 | They must be attentive to all the susceptibilities that people might have in this connection , and ensure that all of them played a part in resolving the tasks that arose in a society of this kind . |
| 6 | One question that arose in the Court of Appeal was whether this decision was subject to judicial review . |
| 7 | In other words , there was a growth in the use of ‘ framework legislation ’ , with Parliament establishing a general framework for controlling or regulating an area of activity and granting to governmental agencies both rule-making powers to put flesh on the framework or quasi-judicial powers to resolve disputes that arose in the course of implementing these schemes . |
| 8 | On this evidence it seems possible that a large part of the conflict that arose in the administration of the NIRC was the result of a belief of its president that , in industrial conflicts , one side can be discovered , after proper examination by judges , to be ‘ right ’ and the other side ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 9 | In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 10 | The stand-up collar was lace , too , as was the diamond-shaped inset that plunged to the V of her breasts . |
| 11 | Nerves that communicate with the use of acetylcholine are said to be cholinergic and are found in the peripheral and central nervous systems . |
| 12 | Whatever the rapture of first love and the obsessiveness of courtship ( sweet old fashioned word ) and marriage , it is a class act which can retain that rapture through the rigours of parenthood , child care and mortgage repayment . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most significant contribution to the debate was that made by a member of the TBC board , the former Mwafrika editor Mr Bagdelleh . |
| 14 | It was invented by the Joseph-Robinson corporation , a particularly unscrupulous food company that operated for a time amongst the outer colonies of the planet Earth . ’ |
| 15 | This requires that when a record is added to the file it is stored in its home bucket if any record that is a synonym is at present in the home bucket , and that if space becomes available in a bucket , any synonym that randomizes to the bucket in which space is now available is moved into the home bucket . |
| 16 | He discovered just how good during the three weeks that elapsed between the signing of contracts and the opening . |
| 17 | The fossil history.of earth suggests that we have about a billion years — one ‘ aeon ’ , to use a convenient modern definition — to play with , for this is roughly the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago and the era of the first fossil organisms . |
| 18 | One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils . |
| 19 | According to Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , the new licensing strategy — see front page — should , for example , enable the Sparc compatible community to get its hands on the company 's next-generation Viking , or SuperSparc technology — being co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc — much more quickly than the best part of a year that elapsed between the launch of the Sparcstation 2 ( UX No 308 ) , and the day Sun gave the green light for the LSI Logic Inc made 40MHz Sparc chip sets to be sold on to Sun wannabe 's ( UX No 356 ) . |
| 20 | If anything disturbed that natural covering , the vegetation would follow a pattern of development that led through a series of recognizable stages to the mature climax once again : |
| 21 | They took a winding dirt alley that led through the back of the village between houses and outhouses . |
| 22 | He beat a red light and turned right again , on to the parkway that led along the river to the bridge . |
| 23 | And that led to a day of fury and counter-claims by the Pakistan team bosses who insisted : ‘ We are not cheats and we intend spending our last rupee proving so . ’ |
| 24 | Typical Eden Park pitches over many years were low and slow , and that led to a lot of drawn Tests . |
| 25 | Well er ha you know I found myself after Budgie managing a singer called Leo and that led to a lot of interesting business and getting involved an , and I sort of forgot Adam Faith for ten years and just got diverted really . |
| 26 | Because we were specifically looking at the assessment of children who presented to hospital with vomiting and a possible diagnosis of pyloric stenosis we excluded children admitted for other conditions who subsequently developed symptoms in hospital that led to a diagnosis of pyloric stenosis . |
| 27 | ‘ We posed as dealers and that led to a number of raids . ’ |
| 28 | The table 's steel surface was ridged with a network of channels that led to a drain-hole in one corner . |
| 29 | But the two were at odds on many issues , especially the 1988 Geneva accords that led to the withdrawal of Soviet troops from neighbouring Afghanistan . |
| 30 | She was halfway down the corridor that led to the back of the house when , out of nowhere , Mrs Birkin appeared . |