Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 2 | The plaintiff will plead the most exaggerated meanings that his counsel considers the words will conceivably bear , in order to maximise the insult and humiliation ( and hence the damages ) . |
| 3 | To cut a long story short — and I 'd be glad to give the details to anyone who wants — it was in Moers that our force met the Communist Party leadership of the Ruhr . |
| 4 | It was no less astonishing that she should find room on her emaciated body to engrave in it , by her discipline , the wounds of the son of God … she gave herself such blows that her blood sprinkled the wails … and as she practised this penance daily every night she reopened her bleeding wounds by making new ones … |
| 5 | But Berkeley 's claims that his Immaterialism avoided the scepticism endemic in his predecessors , and restored philosophy to the beliefs of sound common sense , were not accepted . |
| 6 | Churchill favoured having just sufficient troops to make it impossible for the USSR to attack without the need to make such large preparations that its intention to start the Third World War would be self-evident . |