Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 2 | The Marxist critic reading a text for the ideological traces that it attempts to conceal — ‘ Hegelian grammar ’ is inescapable in such contexts — by its evasive gaps and silences , has an obvious resemblance to the Freudian analyst examining the manifest content of a patient 's dream for the repressed realities that are concealed within it . |
| 3 | The broad aims of all of these modules are to develop planning and organisational skills , interpersonal skills and self-awareness through the various experiences that they offer . |
| 4 | In Europe , AT&T plans to add to its existing network management centres here in the UK and in the Netherlands by installing systems in key European commercial centres to provide the service for multinational customers in the UK , France , Germany , Spain , Italy , Belgium , Switzerland , the Netherlands and Sweden , and plans to hire or redeploy more than 650 technicians and sales personnel in Europe to provide customer support for the new services that are to be available in 1994 . |
| 5 | And if we can just er just go back just for for one minute , just to draw a bit of before you were captured , er and whatnot , could you tell us just a little bit about the living conditions that you had when you were actually at the front . |
| 6 | She stifled the admission that they had to talk about something — anything — to take her mind off the contradictory emotions that stirred inside her , and managed a casual shrug . |
| 7 | In Environment Issues we do n't usually have room to record every birth , marriage and death ( hatches , matches and despatches ) , however , Hygiene Leeds warrants a mention for the five marriages that have taken place over the last three months . |
| 8 | Instead , the talks should examine seriously the problem of underpayment for the major commodities that the third world countries produce , which would be a step forward . |
| 9 | Smith became a Carnegie trustee , and it was thanks to the association between the two men that Keighley became the first town in England to acquire a new Carnegie free library . |
| 10 | One foundation upon which the new studies could be built was the Humboldtian search for the geographical factors that limited the distribution of particular species . |
| 11 | Belief that ultimate reality is timeless is deeply rooted in human thinking , and the origin of rational investigation of the world was the search for the permanent factors that lie behind the ever-changing pattern of events . |
| 12 | We can have , then , an analogy between the natural languages that we think in ( English , Swahili … ) and the programming language , on the one hand , and the machine code and our ‘ language of thought ’ , on the other hand . |
| 13 | So there was no more talk about the far-away things that were coming nearer ; but as for thinking — well , Auntie could n't help doing that , in her way . |
| 14 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 15 | She troubles a good deal about the three hours that she 's lost . |
| 16 | My mother , not believing in idleness and thinking of the long months that lay ahead of me , decided I should learn embroidery . |
| 17 | A great deal of the heavier particles that make up our bodies and the Earth itself are blasted out from incredible nuclear reactions taking place in dying stars ( dying stars , in fact , both explode and implode ) . |
| 18 | His pigtailed youngest daughter , Mary , found that her quick eye and nimble ‘ old enough to be trusted ’ fingers were invaluable in the unpacking , placing and appreciation of the tiny articles that arrived almost hourly by carrier . |
| 19 | An appreciation of the unspeakable dangers that could face us if we did n't live in a country full of cuddly things interested only in eating each other helps put our fear of midges into perspective . |
| 20 | They will abate only slightly as a result of the recent rules that have been introduced by the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Telephone Information Services and by Oftel . |
| 21 | Early in the fourth century the struggles that had occurred intermittently between the Roman state and the Christian Church ended with the latter proving the stronger , partly as a result of the military upheavals that had threatened the former in the middle of the previous century . |
| 22 | In the meantime , the Government have attempted to pull together a solution to the dilemma that arises as a result of the different views that are held by various groups . |
| 23 | There was again strict security at the court building in Liverpool town centre but there was no repeat of the noisy scenes that accompanied the first two remands. — PA |
| 24 | Moreover , they misunderstand the nature of the task upon which the judge has been compelled to engage himself , which is to discover , using the tools with which the law has furnished him — the accepted presumptions and canons of construction — not some speculative but unexpressed ‘ intention of Parliament ’ but the ambit of the written rules that Parliament has imposed for the regulation of the subject 's conduct and his rights and duties under the law . |
| 25 | There is a similar question mark about the future of the archival centres that NESDIS runs . |
| 26 | In order to provide an indication of the possible benefits that might be paid under this policy , LAUTRO ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) has made rules which lay down two bases on which future benefits may be illustrated . |
| 27 | In order to provide an indication of the possible benefits that might be paid under this policy , Lautro ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) has made rules which lay down two bases on which future benefits may be illustrated . |
| 28 | They should take the opportunity to re-state ( without condemnation ) the Christian principle of permanence in married love , the possibilities of achieving it , with a firm indication of the social evils that issue from its abandonment . |
| 29 | The optimism of the secular moralists that hypocrisy will reveal itself , the conviction of a Christian that God can penetrate it , these are reassuring attitudes in the long term . |
| 30 | Wang had close links to Deng , but was a fierce critic of the western influences that crept into China along with Deng 's economic reforms . |