Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |
| 2 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 3 | The table shows how the funding targets of the 14 English regions are affected by the use of the reduced weighting of standardised mortality ratio and the effect that including the socioeconomic variables would have had . |
| 4 | It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying . |
| 5 | It was followed by a silence so fraught with regret on Luce 's part that after a few seconds she had to admit the truth . |
| 6 | But er at that time there was plenty work coming in , erm there was , there was no need for us to be apprehensive , and so therefore we had to convince the management that in the best interests of everybody , having agreed that the scheme would go on across the whole spectrum of the workforce , was to move reasonably , you know , quickly through the various machine departments and introduce with a minimum amount of frustration . |
| 7 | It is a sobering statistic that in the twelve months either side of Owens ' triumph there were twenty-six lynchings of blacks in the USA . |
| 8 | It is probably no accident that among the first organs that it attacks are the crab 's testicles or ovaries ; it spares the organs that the crab needs to survive — as opposed to reproduce — till later . |
| 9 | Just making the point that in the early years , your income will be less , then there 's a crossover point , because the value of the asset grows , and so does the yield on the fund . |
| 10 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
| 11 | One is brought back to the fundamental conclusion that throughout the Primary years it is the children 's activity that is the key to full development . |
| 12 | Smooth plains are distinguished from intercrater plains by a far lower number density of small craters and by clear evidence that on the smooth plains there has occurred the obliteration or partial obliteration of craters . |
| 13 | The test of outrage was also considered , and was countered by evidence that in the two years from July 1973 to June 1975 , the film had been shown in 475 cinemas before an audience of approximately one and a half million people without a single complaint to the police or any local authorities until the present case . |
| 14 | Certainly there is evidence that in the past sisters provided very significant amounts of practical , moral and sometimes financial support for each other ( Young and Willmott , 1957 ; Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 16 | We have argued for a long time that there is a peripheral argument that in the strategic interests of the nation we should be concerned about the coal industry . |
| 17 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 18 | But we need to fill the gap , and by the way colleagues , I think it is appropriate , just to end this particular section of my reply with the comment that at the public services section conference from our count forty percent of the delegates there had never been to a G M B conference before . |
| 19 | It 's a sobering thought that in a million years or so , the Thames will break through somewhere around Poplar High Street and turn it into a proper island . |
| 20 | Insignia Solutions Ltd , High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , is reminding the world that in the early days of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , all anyone will be able to use in it is Insignia 's SoftPC — integrated within NT to provide the MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows emulation environment that must suffice for almost all users until 32-bit applications come along — in the version of NT that supports the R-series and Alpha chips , Insignia emulates the iAPX-86 CPU and other hardware including graphics boards , disk controllers and floppy disk drives . |
| 21 | Insignia Solutions Ltd , High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , is reminding the world that in the early days of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , all anyone will be able to use in it is Insignia 's SoftPC — integrated within NT to provide the MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows emulation environment that must suffice for almost all users until 32-bit applications come along — in the version of NT that supports the R-series and Alpha chips , Insignia emulates the iAPX-86 CPU and other hardware including graphics boards , disk controllers and floppy disk drives . |
| 22 | ‘ The illusion that China is our enemy , ’ he argues , ‘ must be replaced by the reality that on the fundamental questions of Hong Kong 's peace and prosperity , China 's interest coincides with that of Hong Kong . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 24 | This change results in a wave of electrical activity passing down the nerve cell membrane — a wave called an action potential that in a few milliseconds passes from the cell body along the axon to the synapse . |
| 25 | Whether we would be correct to conclude from this that in manic-depression mania was produced by a quasi-toxic suppression of the superego I do not know , but if would certainly accord well with Freud 's suggestion that in the manic interludes in depression we witness ‘ a magnificent festival of the ego , which might then once again feel satisfied with itself ’ . |
| 26 | It is clear from Clarkson 's History that in the early years of the anti-slave trade agitation local organisations were established through existing religious networks ( an example would be the Quaker Lloyds in Birmingham ) or contact by Clarkson or others with a small group of prominent individuals who already had an interest in the issue . |
| 27 | It is enough to say that that is not a proof of the counter proposition that outside the three miles no such result could be looked for . |
| 28 | There is thus no doubt that on the older authorities the courts have refused to review by way of certiorari the decision of a visitor even though they were prepared to grant mandamus to require him to act or to prohibit him from acting in excess of jurisdiction . |
| 29 | Furthermore , there is little doubt that within the Hebrew scriptures , there are recorded some of the most valuable pieces of wisdom and rules for righteous living , as are to be found anywhere , and it is these particular tenets and doctrines , which need to be separated , completely and utterly from the dogmatic claims of ‘ god-given ’ rights and superiorities which have always been , and always will be , unacceptable to the rest of the human race . |
| 30 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |