Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind his hostility lay a conviction that the Roman Church represented a corruption of an earlier , undefiled religion that he associated with the Egyptians . |
| 2 | It read : ‘ I ask you to consider that the effects of the legal action that I undertook in the Berne district court concerning my non-participation in the European Cup this year are null and void . |
| 3 | As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below . |
| 4 | He was always grateful for ‘ the healthy and restorative force that I see in the country . ’ |
| 5 | Then , grasping the shoe and using its heel as a club , smite the biscuit tin lid with such force that it flies across the room and the egg plops into the glass , unbroken . |
| 6 | Barking ferociously , the big Great Dane rushed from the rear of the house , skidded around the corner and hurled herself at the gate with such force that it creaked under the impact . |
| 7 | At the utmost , the allegation that he relied on the testator 's promise seems to me to import no more than that he believed the testator would be as good as his word . |
| 8 | It was in that terrible moment of loss that he noticed for the first time the eagle in the cage on the other side of his from where Minch 's cage was . |
| 9 | If tourism is to be properly recognised as Scotland 's largest employer , and recognised for the very considerable revenue that it brings into the country , it must first be given higher priority within the Scottish Office itself . |
| 10 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 11 | It was as she finished with the remainder of yesterday 's mail that she glanced through the window in time to see Silas walking towards the stables . |
| 12 | I wanted to show the break that she made under the pressure which could not be ignored or left without a response . |
| 13 | The answer depends on the criteria of efficiency and equity that we developed in the last chapter . |
| 14 | One more guilty secret that Maggie felt obliged to keep from everyone was the deep fear and disgust that she felt at the thought of sexuality . |
| 15 | Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him . |
| 16 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |
| 17 | ‘ It was always the intention that we stay through the Darkfall and monitor the activity , ’ said Rohmer . |
| 18 | Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative . |
| 19 | How much nicer Mark Ainger was , assuming in his remote kindness that everybody knew about the things he was interested in himself and being much too charitable to pass judgement on other people 's amusements , however unlike his own though they might be . |
| 20 | He becomes an entertainer , a manipulator whose victories we watch as if hypnotized , seeing both the tricks and the mesmeric effect that they have on the innocent . |
| 21 | An abstract data type ( ADT ) is a set of operations , operating on a collection of stored data , defined so that they are rigorous enough to specify completely the effect that they have on the data , but abstract because it must not specify how the data is stored nor how the operations are carried out . |
| 22 | Even if that problem can be overcome , the vendors often then make a blanket disclosure to the effect that everything known to the management is disclosed against the warranties . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 24 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 25 | This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born . |
| 26 | In Wimsatt 's definition irony is a ‘ cognitive principle which shades off through paradox into the general principle of metaphor ’ ( Wimsatt and Brooks 1957 : 747 ) ; according to Brooks , it is the ‘ most general term that we have for the kind of qualification which the various elements in a context receive from the context ’ ( Brooks 1949 : 191 ) . |
| 27 | It may be shown ( using the criterion that they lead to the same set of equations ) that by adding the so-called leakage inductances to the ideal transformer the two representations ( Fig. 4.11 ) become equivalent . |
| 28 | For Wolf was " the first to present a systematic description of the vast fabric that he called by the name of Altertumswissenschaft , to arrange and review its component parts and to point to a perfect knowledge of the many-sided life of the ancient Greeks and Romans as the final goal of the modern study of the ancient world . |
| 29 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 30 | The review that we undertook of the calls shows that the peak demands in are between eight A M and twelve midnight , so the four officers will work a sixteen hour duty scheme er of eight till four , four til midnight , and then the cover between midnight and A M will come fr eight A M will come from as it does at present . |