Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nursing and medical libraries can be made accessible to you , as can the skills of the librarian , for whom finding that elusive reference you have searched for can become a personal crusade . |
| 2 | There 's particular questioning about my proposition that joint commissioning erm , should remain distinct from I think , the joint planning arrangements . |
| 3 | Nevertheless liberalism succeeded in destroying the fueros and it was only after its triumph that conservative liberals challenged the maxim that ‘ centralization is neither more nor less than liberty itself ’ . |
| 4 | An Islamabad brothel madam had claimed after her arrest that senior politicians in the IDA , bureaucrats and religious leaders were among her regular clients . |
| 5 | I am dubious about their confidence that British industry is already experienced in a wide range of PWR work , and has technical and manufacturing competence at the levels ready to receive successfully the transfer of information specific to PWR components . |
| 6 | Although Bekenstein 's hypothesis that black holes have a finite entropy requires for its consistency that black holes should radiate thermally , at first it seems a complete miracle that the detailed quantum-mechanical calculations of particle creation should give rise to emission with a thermal spectrum . |
| 7 | He 's also the man who last March upbraided BR for its argument that ten minutes either way was ‘ on time . ’ |
| 8 | Runner-up was Higgs Furs , of Westcliff-on-Sea , Essex , for its claim that real furs are more environmentally friendly than fake furs made from polluting synthetic fibres . |
| 9 | But if in the maintained schools teachers become more like civil servants , this will afford an additional motive for many parents to move into the independent sector , valuing as many do the overall moral and social responsibility for their pupils that such schools assume . |
| 10 | They give no reasons for their belief that modern physics , analytical psychology and the perennial philosophy will be the driving forces of the new world that we are approaching . |
| 11 | This being so , it is all the more important to end by underlining what I take to be gained by the acceptance of my proposal that concessive holism should be adopted as the most fruitful approach to social explanation . |
| 12 | It is part of my argument that this notion of service is still a fundamental part of the actor 's conception of professionalism , constrains professional behaviour and is built in to the ‘ contract ’ between profession and public . |
| 13 | A recognition of the failure of this mechanism , consequent on the massive growth in the capitalisation of companies in the twentieth century , the corresponding increase in the size of their membership that this growth has required , and the shareholder passivity that inevitably results , underlies much modern company law scholarship . |
| 14 | But it is only in some of their lyrics that this cleanliness of vision appears . |
| 15 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 16 | Union leaders , however , claimed that the management 's offers fell far short of their demand that both lecturers keep their jobs . |
| 17 | And , if they have read the passage , they might well be forgiven for entering it as further evidence , if evidence were needed , in support of their view that evolutionary Socialism is anathema and its proponents the prime enemy . |
| 18 | The heterogeneous nature of its object had led to a heterogeneous discipline , and it was only by making literariness the object of its enquiry that literary science could exist as an independent and indeed as a coherent and systematic type of study . |
| 19 | It should not be presumed , however , that the child instantly and readily makes a generalization of its perception that many women possess no penis ; in the way of this there lies the assumption that the absence of the penis is due to a castration performed as a punishment . |
| 20 | The treaty practice of some common law States seeks to avoid the term because of its suggestion that all types of co-operation require judicial authorisation or involvement ; they prefer ‘ international legal assistance ’ . |
| 21 | He got a little tired of her complaints that male chauvinism had stopped her getting a book out . |
| 22 | It had occurred to Cecilia as soon as the words were out of her mouth that five minutes to twelve , which was the time when she had seen Jasper , was rather early for a lunch hour to begin . |
| 23 | On the substantive hearing the mother indicated her desire to seek medical opinion in support of her view that such measures should be used . |
| 24 | It did so only at a price ; but it is the measure of his greatness that few others in ancient or modern times have attempted , let alone carried through , a comparable essay in the reorientation of Christian thought . |
| 25 | The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented . |
| 26 | It is not clear how claim ( c ) is to interact with the claim in the earlier part of his article that prenominal position is reserved for characteristic ( as opposed to occasion ) adjectives . |
| 27 | To say this is not the same as complaining of his acknowledgement that poor people can have a good time . |
| 28 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |
| 29 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 30 | Gandhi is unable to harbour the thought , even secretly , that another man 's faith is inferior to his own because of his belief that different faiths are God 's creation and thereby equally holy . |