Example sentences of "[that] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It looks like wheat , except that right in the middle of this prairie is a group of small hills rising unexpectedly out of the flat plain .
2 One suspects that somewhere along the line of the story 's forming there has been some attempt to draw a veil over the proceedings , and to protect the reputation particularly of the great Moses .
3 The Revenue contended that regardless of the amount of the capital appointed each appointee was liable on the full amount of the trust income so that the Crown was entitled to as many times the tax on the income as appointees year by year .
4 They know that only through the legislature of the nation can the battle for common justice be effectively fought and permanent well-being for the people obtained .
5 The Sufi tradition in particular stresses that only through the use of symbols can any understanding be reached : It is through symbols that one is awakened ; it is through symbols that one is transformed ; and it is through symbols that one expresses .
6 But he declared that he would be unable to recognize Roksanda , after having seen her for such a short time , and that only by the light of his master 's ring .
7 This implied that only in the sphere of the mathematical sciences can the human intellect attain knowledge that is as objective and as certain as it is known to the divine mind .
8 Using a magnetometer , they found that only in the bones of the sinuses was magnetic remanence more than twice the background level — and in those bones it was up to 13 times background .
9 We now know this to be true of all the planets ; however , the effect is so small that only in the case of Mercury was it detectable by nineteenth-century astronomers .
10 Indeed , if the superego is always in part a cultural , collective phenomenon and if in such states the divine monarch , chairman or party leader is far beyond the reach of the identifications of the masses because of his incomparable pre-eminence , then it follows that only in the dissolution of the superego that alcohol brings does the ordinary ego find any hope of believing , however unrealistically , that it is equal to , or as worthy as , the father of the state .
11 But I think that sex can be a fleeting thing and sometimes I believe that if it is that alone as the basis of a relationship , then all the finer and better qualities are thrown out of the window .
12 But is n't it possible that these traits do n't figure that largely in the lives of , at least , young people in Ireland today ?
13 Provided that Ali 's analysis of Hacihasanzade 's motives is correct-and one must remember that Ali is writing nearly a century after the event it would appear that already at the beginning of the sixteenth century the career of a kasabat kadi was regarded as a dead end .
14 A rich girl , then ; but he could see that already from the delicacy of her skin , and the fine soft hands which lay crossed over her small breasts .
15 He saw that just as a knowledge of atoms and molecules is essential for the progress of chemistry , it is also essential for chemistry student .
16 But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges …
17 The Derry Journal of 30 August reported that shortly before the beginning of the corporation 's monthly meeting , ‘ the Guildhall foyer was crowded with men , women and children waiting to voice their protest ’ .
18 But the fact is that gradually from the heyday of the detective story in the 1920s , " 30s and " 40s new tendencies crept in .
19 Many felt that possibly as a result of Big Bang more people generally were changing jobs , and the mining conglomerate questioned wrote that : ‘ we have had to review salaries etc. of staff vulnerable to approaches from the City .
20 Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it .
21 Rather , if one considered the nineteen years of Jordanian rule to be an interruption in the physical integrity of Palestine , it could be argued that ever since the beginning of the century an increasing proportion of the agricultural labour force of the Palestinian uplands provided seasonal labour on the coastal plain for Jewish , Arab and other industrial and agricultural enterprises .
22 We shall see in the next section that partly as a result of secularisation religion has become privatised and inward looking .
23 The Ehrenreichs claim that partly as a reaction against the actions of the government ‘ large numbers of young people pushed professional-managerial class radicalism to its limits and found themselves , ultimately , at odds with their own class ’ .
24 All I know is that probably during the course of the year something will happen and I might have to chip in you know , a thousand pounds or a million pounds or whatever , but I do n't know how much it 's going to be .
25 ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child .
26 Right and indeed , er I , I must er correct the impression that Yeltsin is anti-semitic , I do n't think there 's any evidence of that at all , er , a and , er I , I would regard that really as a slander on his character , but er , er Russian nationalist , this is a very delicate question .
27 One can only use criminal law to test theories of law on the assumption that independently of the theory in question one has in criminal law a genuine instance of law .
28 It was reported that immediately after the close of the congress around 120 of these delegates began discussions on splitting from the Estonian CP and setting up a rival communist party in Estonia which would be subordinate to the CPSU .
29 148 Squadron suffered such an attrition rate to its Wellingtons during attacks on Malta 's airfields early in 1941. that immediately after the end of February the unit was withdrawn to Egypt .
30 Who would have thought that even at the beginning of this century the poet felt the need for time to stand still .
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