Example sentences of "the [det] [noun] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who most confidently claim to speak for British interests sometimes seem to have the least confidence that those interests are likely to prevail . |
| 2 | Except for marine products , the few goods that polar regions yield are seldom valued highly enough to offset the high costs and risks of exploiting them . |
| 3 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 4 | But I think in the few months that this administration has er , has been in office , it is encouraging to see that the county council is operating inside the budget , er , which I believe was actually set by the previous administration , erm , er over which we had no influence whatsoever . |
| 5 | I mean , would this be the source of the many prophecies that some evil would befall the King ? ’ |
| 6 | Although this place has heard tales of much horror and beastliness over the many generations that hon. Members have spoken about the plight of victims throughout the history of this place , I suggest that the plight of the people whose human rights we will discuss this morning transcends almost every other horror that we have heard here . |
| 7 | ‘ Night ’ itself occurs several times in his early books of poetry , as it was bound to do , and its references are of an intimidating sort : ‘ the night never ending ’ ( in ‘ Letter ’ ) , and ‘ the clinic of your thighs against the night ’ ( in Let Us Compare Mythologies ; the latter intimating that other experience of the night which such high thinkers as Bertrand Russell found laden with sexual feelings ) . |
| 8 | The greater the dependence on an external individual , group or organization ( e.g. the oil company 's dependence on the Middle East for the supply of certain types of crude oil ) , the more power that external supplier has . |
| 9 | Bell and his colleagues now believe these were caused by head-on fights with opponents , who appeared to lunge at each other in much the same way that present-day crocodiles do , but with more apparent gusto , using strong jaws to tear at each other 's snouts . |
| 10 | It is connected in the same way that cast iron guttering is repaired — i.e. with mastic and a new gutter bolt . |
| 11 | In the same way that alternative therapies such as acupuncture have become accepted by the medical profession , the day might come when , to treat your flu , your doctor prescribes a piece of topaz instead of tablets . |
| 12 | J. B. Watson in 1914 and other behaviourist thinkers ( Hull , Skinner ) believed that an acquired behaviour element , the conditioned reflex for example , could be made to account for all behaviour , because such an element could be treated as a ‘ building block in theory much in the same way that nineteenth-century physicists used ‘ atoms ’ to build up a theory of matter . |
| 13 | We start to lose control of our minds in the same way that muscular tension is often out of our control . |
| 14 | This provides a benchmark for evaluating natural monopoly industries , in the same way that perfect competition provides a benchmark — something that it would be desirable to work towards as a policy goal . |
| 15 | There can be no doubt that the buckle-end of a belt could be a formidable weapon , but in fact the belts were often pricked out in fancy patterns or embellished with metal studs in much the same way that modern motor-bike boys adorn their jackets with stud designs . |
| 16 | In the same way that African opinion elsewhere found its voice in the press , so also did white settler opinion ‘ which was frequently in conflict with the colonial authority . |
| 17 | A wide range of scientific methods can be usefully employed to unmask fakes and fraudulent restorations , in much the same way that forensic methods are used in criminal investigations . |
| 18 | But in the same way that real poverty has always given birth to real revolution , this feigned poverty of the adventurous would breed a false-bottomed , jerry-built revolution in which the adventurers would continue their make-believe and be followed by the rock-concert lumpen , tired of their own voyeurism . ’ |
| 19 | Reality is at his disposal in the same way that ordinary language and the current literary conventions and devices are . |
| 20 | Yes and no , er I , there wo n't be another East German scholarship because there wo n't be another East Germany er next year it will disappear , it will just not exist , which er I think what we 're really celebrating , the fact that we now have freedom of movement of young people from what was the Eastern Bloc will now just be Eastern Europe , er into the West in the same way that western students can travel around . |
| 21 | In the same way that these changes have varied spatially — both regionally and at a local scale — so too have the modifications to social organizations themselves varied . |
| 22 | For even if we achieve the objective of a full franchise then the purpose of that full franchise will not work for disabled people if they do n't have full access to polling stations , they only then have the alternative of using postal or proxy votes and not exercising their franchise in the same way that able-bodied people er will do and their full right are part of the measure that I 'm seeking the house to agree that I should pursue . |
| 23 | One can not prove in the same way that senior bureaucrats do not implement effective conservation because there is no extra financial inducement and it could involve them in embarrassing political contradictions . |
| 24 | Sometimes , register inconsistency produces unintended pastiche and humour , in the same way that direct imitation of published styles can . |
| 25 | It still maintains with blithe equanimity its opinion that active smoking , let alone passive smoking , does not cause disease — it has only been shown to have a ‘ statistical association , ’ much in the same way that sexual intercourse might be denied to ‘ cause ’ pregnancy . |
| 26 | They are fixed in much the same way that ceramic tiles are stuck to internal walls , but using a special adhesive mortar suitable for outdoor use . |
| 27 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 28 | Although such deviant forms occur in nature , ( one of the best known is the ‘ red ’ form of ‘ Cichlasoma labiatum ’ , the Red Devil ) they are unusual , and should be regarded as abnormalities — effectively deformities of colour , in the same way that double fins , or incomplete gill covers , are deformities of shape . |
| 29 | They were certainly not affixed to the merchandise as labels in the same way that some furniture makers and picture framers did , as a recent examination of some one thousand coffins in the vaults at Christchurch , Spitalfields , has proved . |
| 30 | The joy is , though , that they do it well and they do it their way , in the same spirit that Primal Scream celebrated The Elevators ' ‘ Step Inside This House ’ … with style . |