Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [that] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does , however , point out that these techniques are only suitable for text that displays the specialised sublanguage characteristics . |
| 2 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 3 | Entire families , forced off the land and driven to the cities , found themselves tied to a treadmill of existence that involved the entire family working , quite literally , night and day . |
| 4 | And it 's not just the dizzying development and the smell of money that pervades the downtown area . |
| 5 | WC apps : 1st time Jack Charlton is still riding the wave of optimism that bore the Irish through the European Championship . |
| 6 | This is a much lower threshold of liability than the notion of violence that underlay the common law concept . |
| 7 | This is where the spectacular forms of regeneration that characterised the 1980s ( Harvey , 1989 ) were not so much a postmodern discontinuity as a logical extension of the tradition of symbolically rich , effectively marginal , policy palliatives that were offered to the urban crisis from the 1960s onwards . |
| 8 | In doing so we shall concentrate in this chapter on lines of research that address the general issue of whether psychosis and creativity are in fact connected . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm thinking of the sort of attitude that suggests the unemployed do too little to help themselves , that if only you have determination and drive you can get on in the world . ’ |
| 10 | There are many breeds of flop-eared dogs , but this is the only breed of cat that lacks the typical , pricked ears of the feline head . |
| 11 | This , however , was only one example of the kind of issue that required the concerted action of states with different social systems . |
| 12 | In the words of Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke , ‘ There is no body of opinion that finds the existing law wholly satisfactory . ’ |
| 13 | There is a growing body of opinion that distinguishes the German action , typified by Stein 's action , from the Viennese action , typified by Walter 's action . |
| 14 | It is the commercialisation of fuel that poses the greatest threat to India 's forests . |
| 15 | Without getting into these deep and murky waters , let me say that problem solving uses thinking , but that solving a genuine problem usually requires some creative act , ranging from the flash of insight that illuminates the entire problem to the glimmer of light that shows a direction to pursue ( and which may be a will o' the wisp ) . |
| 16 | The party had quietened in the half-hour since Belinda had turned into the driveway , but music , laughter and conversation still flowed over her with a welcome wave of sound that drowned the thudding pulse in her ears and the silent clamour of her thoughts . |
| 17 | I do n't think that I was in a minority of one in finding this performance , particularly the absolutely shattering playing of the Finale , incredibly moving — the thunderous howl of approval that greeted the final chord bears that out . |
| 18 | It was not only gifts of cash that kept the voluntary hospitals going , but the donation by leading doctors of their services . |
| 19 | In the same way , it 's the heathen elements of Pop that trouble the sober-minded rock fan , keen to see through the superficial , engage with the depth of an artist , |
| 20 | The natty questions of authorship that plague the Old Master market often as not leave collectors of nineteenth-century paintings unfazed . |
| 21 | Does she accept that very few people are totally opposed to Sunday trading , but millions want some form of compromise that recognises the special nature of Sunday ? |
| 22 | Attempts to reform the education service in the 1930s had been frustrated by financial stringencies ( of the kind , for example , that led to the substitution of special for free places in secondary schools ) , by the conservative indifference towards education that marked the National Governments of the decade , and , perhaps most decisively , by the persistence of religious difficulties . |
| 23 | The barrage of criticism that greeted the consultative paper persuaded both Ministers and mandarins of something that schools and parents had known experientially all along ; that the problem of curriculum planning is not deciding what to put in , but what to leave out . |
| 24 | In Britain these anxieties , warnings and qualifications intensified in the period of debate that preceded the 1867 Reform Act . |
| 25 | He established territory over a cave roof in the middle of the tank and proceeded to carry out a reign of terror that had the other residents hugging the ends of the tank in various stages of nervous collapse . |
| 26 | Certainly few of the Moi University students state any wish to revert to a traditional course , and many already show enthusiasm for the process of self-learning that underpins the whole philosophy of a problem-based approach to medical education . |
| 27 | Her voice was judicial , but she quailed inwardly at the flare of anger that lit the blue eyes . |
| 28 | If the bulge is axisymmetric , lines of sight that make the same angle on either side of the centre will appear equally bright . |
| 29 | But this pre-history he rejects serves as a symbolic equivalent of the narrative of multiple usurpations and misappropriations of territory that occupies the following six hundred pages . |
| 30 | ‘ Fowler ’ was inserted for ‘ Tebbit ’ on the placards and the demonstration went ahead with a degree of intimidation that made the front page of every national newspaper the next day . |