Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must stop trying to persuade themselves or the country that some sort of semi-detached arrangement can be made that will serve Britain 's interests — there is no such arrangement . |
| 2 | In applying subsection 2 , the quantity of material is one of the factors that the tribunal can bear in mind when assessing the defendant 's intention , or the likelihood that racial hatred will be stirred up . |
| 3 | The increase in the dividend and presumably the optimistic implication about the bank 's future earning ability or the possibility that past investment policies were proving to be injudicious ? |
| 4 | It is not a relationship in which rules are kept because of either fear or the belief that such action will bring some reward . |
| 5 | Yes , but I want to know , Brenda , are you really concerned about the fact that you 'll see it , or the fact that these people that you do n't particularly like are going to be living near you . |
| 6 | Moreover , goals relate to situations , so arousal may be as much situational as internal ; we may be aroused by the presence of others and the knowledge that other people are evaluating us , thereby linking goals or values important to us to the situation in which we find ourselves . |
| 7 | The myth has to do with the inability , for a culture which holds the belief that mankind is autochthonous … , to find a satisfactory transition between this theory and the knowledge that human beings are actually born from the union of man and woman . |
| 8 | For instance , some coins of the Roman Emperor Severus Alexander found in Egypt fall into two stylistic groups , and the discovery that each group has different trace elements provides clear evidence that they were made at different mints . |
| 9 | One advance , still perhaps not fully evaluated , arises from the principle of competitive antagonism and the discovery that certain compounds compete with oestrogens and block the tissue receptors on which the oestrogen acts . |
| 10 | They have convinced themselves and the public that each year they have suffered draconian cuts . |
| 11 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 12 | These statements added little to what Arafat had already said but such casuistry , the decision to limit official contact with the PLO to the US embassy in Tunis , and the warning that any terrorist incident attributable to a PLO faction would render US recognition of the PLO void , suggested that the outgoing US administration had acted with considerable reluctance . |
| 13 | Ringing the woman 's number again , she found her in , and more than ready to offer her somewhat trenchant views on the House of Commons and the way that seminal institution seemed to cling to the outmoded notion that women were an inferior breed . |
| 14 | A pupil whose difficulties in learning and in social interaction are connected with difficulties in seeing and the way that these difficulties are regarded by others will require both understanding and knowledge of the nature of the problems from the teacher . |
| 15 | It will be pleasing if the features of this sketch seem intuitively natural , as indeed we would claim , but justification for them is of course to be sought primarily in the observations of Chapters 2 to 10 and the way that these observations fit our assumptions about the bases of adjectival syntax . |
| 16 | The Campaign attacks the carve-up of the brewing industry by vested interests , and the way that large companies are getting around legislation following the 1989 MMC Report . |
| 17 | As will be made clear in the following brief history of Marxist thought in Latin America , there has been very little interplay between the evolutions of Marxism-Leninist prescriptions for revolutionary development in Latin America , as shaped by Soviet ideologues , and the way that Latin Americans themselves have applied Marxism to their situation . |
| 18 | First , proposals for reform — such proposals will be discussed more fully below — ultimately fail in their intentions because they do not take into account the social , economic and political nature of today 's society and the way that important relationships have changed . |
| 19 | The fact that a large proportion of women now work has potential implications for the balance of power and dependency within families and the way that domestic tasks are performed . |
| 20 | Consequently , early systems were unsuccessful , and the realisation that effective MT would not be possible without fundamental work on text understanding led to a cutback in funding . |
| 21 | The causes of Britain 's relative decline are addressed in Allen ( 1979 ) , and the thesis that British society , fatally , failed to embrace industrialism is developed in Weiner ( 1981 ) . |
| 22 | A vector is parallel transported around an infinitesimal closed path and the change that this operation produces in the vector is calculated . |
| 23 | A unitary system , the sovereignty of Parliament usually wielded by a one-party majority , Treasury control of national finance , the absence of a written constitution or a Bill of Rights which courts can use to challenge the government , and the idea that extra-parliamentary party organs are merely ‘ handmaidens ’ of the parliamentary party all bear witness to this centralization . |
| 24 | Indirectly , we have already explored this way of thinking in our consideration of the proposal that pragmatics is " meaning minus semantics " , and the idea that some distinction from sociolinguistics is necessary was responsible for some of the dissatisfaction with a number of the definitions above . |
| 25 | The conception of the political community which underlay this exclusive franchise , and the idea that corporate bodies ( rather than individuals ) should be represented , meant that the supporters of the theory and practice of the eighteenth-century constitution held the view that every major legitimate political interest was represented in Parliament — if not directly then at least " virtually " through the broad mix of members from different places and of varying backgrounds . |
| 26 | The view was expressed that with technological progress unskilled jobs were disappearing and the idea that full employment is possible no longer makes any sense . |
| 27 | In the past , the company 's status as a body responsible for the performance of public functions , and the idea that public benefit was a prerequisite of incorporation , were also evident . |
| 28 | In further negotiations with the centre on July 3 , the republics ' delegations demanded more concessions , including republican control over local defence industry enterprises and over import-export licensing , joint control of customs , and the guarantee that autonomous republics would not be allowed to sign the Union Treaty independently — an important clause for the Russian Federation which included 16 autonomous republics . |
| 29 | A simplistic analysis and synthesis of function is pursued and this tends to eliminate the interlocution , the din and the vigour , the extravagances and the variety that casual solutions might offer . |
| 30 | Such hotness will be almost imperceptible to those who eat chilli every day , and the notion that Thai food must sear the mouth to be authentic is a misunderstanding . |