Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is during gastrulation that the main body plan is laid down ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 2 | The reduction was regarded by Ministers as modest grounds for hope that the high level of imports is at last beginning to ease and the three-month picture shows a 13.4pc fall in the deficit . |
| 3 | Foucault points out several factors which fundamentally challenge this : the fact , for instance that the sexual apparatus and the nuclear family were produced by the bourgeoisie as an aspect of its own self-affirmation , not as a means of controlling the working class ; that there are class sexualities ( and different gender sexualities ) ; that indeed there are sexualities , not a single uniform sexuality . |
| 4 | Ironically , it is obviously during recession that the greatest demands are made on the social security budget as needs explodes . |
| 5 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 6 | The last Minister for the Arts but one , Tim Renton , made a remark to me about the difficulty of speaking up too energetically for the arts sector in the House of Commons , for fear that the other MPs would say , ‘ Ah , poor chap , he 's gone native ’ . |
| 7 | Aberdeen Petroleum , courted as a merger partner by Bellwether , dipped 1p to 14p after news that the proposed tie-up was off . |
| 8 | It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ . |
| 9 | By then , warnings were already blowing in the post-imperial winds of change that the all-regular Army might soon be overstretched trying to maintain stability in the final stages of Britain 's withdrawal from Empire . |
| 10 | Eliot , in The Use of Poetry , quoted Jacques Rivière : ‘ It is only with the advent of Romanticism that the literary act came to be conceived as a sort of raid on the absolute and its results as a revelation . ’ |
| 11 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |
| 12 | On 17 April 1764 , he finally got the go-ahead , providing of course that the new building was erected as economically as possible . |
| 13 | But it was really , I mean it , it meant of course that the other people on the boat could have some enjoyment as well , cos I mean , there 's nothing worse i if you if there 's only one rod out , or two rods out th those boats there 's only like a couple of rods out int there on , on |
| 14 | Yes I mean , I think that we had a big discussion at the last area committee on the scheme and the problem was of course that the detailed plans er , for the consultation erm to the , I 'm at , I 'm a bit worried that at this late stage there 's this new idea of of building on the green wedge at the back and I would n't like to think that the scheme should be delayed the important thing , it seems to me , is that it should press ahead and |
| 15 | Now that you have the contract you will have seen of course that the commercial exploitation of the data on the tape will be subject to further negotiation between presumably Cristian de Wilde and myself . |
| 16 | It is here of course that the precise order in which voters place candidates can have a decisive effect on the destination of the last seat(s) . |
| 17 | The use of examples in each definition encodes information concerning the actual usage of words in running text , which is more representative of the type of text that the semantic analyser will usually be required to handle . |
| 18 | It may well be in this mis-match of experience that the first seeds of misunderstanding and destructive tension are sown , particularly as the education officer is often perceived as ‘ the authority ’ , in several senses of the word , while the head has a greater knowledge of the processes of education required in school to meet the needs of the children . |
| 19 | The revenue from the Patrimony was the first obvious source of income that the papal chamberlain , whose office dates back to Paschal II ( 1099 – 1118 ) , received . |
| 20 | I am not sure how accurately that can be measured , but it represents a substantial cost to the NHS , which the hon. Member for Eccles compared , in my view rightly , with the large sums of money that the European Community still commits to subsidising tobacco production , against which we have argued vehemently in Brussels . |
| 21 | Because of the increasing use of complex machinery and sophisticated farming methods , many of those engaged in agriculture require managerial and supervisory skills and it is to this area of provision that the agricultural colleges should be turning in the next few years . |
| 22 | It is only when this distinction has been made in terms that comply with the workings of narrative that the linguistic analogy is introduced : the functions , Barthes suggests , are based on metonymic relations , the indices on metaphoric relations . |
| 23 | The information was available in the summer and , as the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland said , it is his experience as a local Member of Parliament that the nuclear industry is much more open than has been alleged by the hon. Member for Moray . |
| 24 | It is in the proposed causal origins of this enduring disposition towards crime that the different theories diverge . |
| 25 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 26 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 27 | I mean the point would be to give it that kind of pzazz that the young kids love so much . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's only rissoles , I 'm afraid , ’ said Alec , but if I felt a pang of disappointment that the first meal at his house was n't going to be out of the ordinary I was mistaken . |
| 29 | The LEA budget can not match the sort of investment that the fast food marketing chains make but , in promoting healthy eating , we can copy the best of their relatively inexpensive marketing and presentation techniques and use them to our advantage . |
| 30 | Now , I have heard tell in the sultry dens of Freudianism that the psychological scar inflicted by this act of parental desertion frequently induces the daughter , when she is of an age to start questing for a swain , to seek a substitute for the departed archetype . |