Example sentences of "[adv] that [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other factors were deployed , but the standpoint of the report was predominantly that of the legal profession and local affinities , rather than the interests of the accused or the more efficient despatch of business . |
| 2 | Traditional stylistic terms ( eg that of the periodic sentence — see 7.5.3 ) although often ill-defined , seem to refer to such configurations of categories . |
| 3 | The fault is not entirely that of the sanitary authorities or of the immediate landlords … |
| 4 | Sheep , in contrast , are God 's creatures , and the ideal image of the men who tend them is naturally that of the Good Shepherd . |
| 5 | Garden design , especially that of the small garden , appears on the Ward Lock list in two titles : Roger Sweetinburgh 's Creative Garden Features ( September 1992 , £14.99 , 0 7063 7094 5 ) , and Small Gardens by Gill Page et al ( March , £8.99 , 0 7063 7153 4 ) . |
| 6 | Finally this anthropological study will investigate political reactions to this recent development , especially that of the Communist Party which is locally dominant . |
| 7 | Widely in evidence in the ancient world , it was regarded as a powerful protection against evil forces , especially that of the evil eye . |
| 8 | His Remarks touching Geography especially that of the British Isles ( 1822 ) proposed the introduction of Napoleonic departments , while his Horae Viaticae ( 1836 ) included a novel about a radical reforming pope . |
| 9 | Ellen and I both assumed that Sweetman 's interest in Wavebreaker had been merely that of a prospective charterer who wanted to reconnoitre the boat 's amenities . |
| 10 | Although he was paid a handsome salary by GE to be a morale booster and public relations spokesman , it should not be assumed that his role was merely that of a glad hander , a retired film star capitalizing on a fading reputation . |
| 11 | It was later to be challenged in urban Spain — not merely that of the great city but also the sizeable southern agrarian pueblo — because his parishioners were confronted with rival ideologies and because the priests tended to side with the notables . |
| 12 | But the usefulness which he sought was not only that of a prominent poet , and in a postscript to The Idea of a Christian Society he had already discussed the need for " constructive thinking " during the war . |
| 13 | The loss is not only that of a magnificent animal : the decline of the elephant hurts the wider environment . |
| 14 | I feel for him , for he is a man who has never lived the life of a man , but only that of an overgrown schoolboy . |
| 15 | Moreover , to say that a set of activities and skills partakes of the general discipline of librarianship is not the same thing as saying that all people who have ever been trained as librarians can perform them , or that they must be performed by people whose training is only that of the professional librarian . |
| 16 | It should be noted that this definition covers the audit of any enterprise , not just that of a limited company . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's not even room to swing a cat , ’ he says , and there is a wonderful picture of Tom imagining himself doing just that with a surprised-looking feline . |
| 18 | just that for the one part of the riff right ? |
| 19 | ‘ You should have whipped off the trousers and said the jacket was a mini-dress , ’ said literary agent Felicity Bryan , who remembers doing just that at the Tory Carlton Club 20 years ago . |
| 20 | I have heard my own favourite , Alchemilla mollis a useful hardy gap-filler , described as just that by a fellow gardener . |
| 21 | The " we " code is generally that with the longer association with the community , the community 's " own " language , while the " they " code is the community 's " new " language , a language of wider communication with the rest of the world . |
| 22 | The directors consider that in general the group 's 2,600 equity share investments do not come within the CA 1989 definition of associated undertakings , since 3i 's role is normally that of a passive investor . |
| 23 | The main details of this description are derived from the account of the lift published by Gordon Thomas , the designer of the lift , in a paper to the International Congress on Inland Navigations in 1902 , and later in a private publication of 1904 describing the ‘ Thomas Lift ’ for an exhibition in the U.S.A. Although they are clear general descriptions , they are almost identical and , where applicable , the wording is exactly that of the original patent applications , of 1896/7 . |
| 24 | The behaviour of ρ is , however , exactly that of the time-time component of a second-rank tensor : where is the four-vector velocity of the cloud . |
| 25 | ‘ Seek ye first the political kingdom ’ said Kwame Nkrumah , and nearly all African Heads of State have done exactly that in the last quarter of a century . |
| 26 | He argues further that from a legal point of view objectors have few opportunities to present an effective case . |
| 27 | We became friendly , although the association was more that of a client-lawyer kind . |
| 28 | In recent years the officers ' freedom to divorce professional judgement from political calculation has , in many authorities , diminished sharply , and today 's chief officers are increasingly coming ‘ to see their role as less than that of a neutral professional or technocrat and more that of a bureaucratic politician ’ ( Laffin and Young , 1985 , p. 51 ) . |
| 29 | This would reduce the number of authors listed while still providing unambiguous access to the publication , acknowledgment of the primary researcher , and identification of the department or laboratory ( usually that of the last author ) . |
| 30 | This site was once that of an ancient meeting place mound ; it was partly excavated , and the mound reconstructed as part of the landscaping design . |