Example sentences of "that [noun] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment . |
| 2 | It is suggested that views diverge on the central question of the rights of parents to custody and control of their children in relation to the right of the state ( acting through courts and social work agencies ) to intervene in the parent-child relationship , to remove children from their parents , to allocate their care and control to other parties , and to determine their subsequent upbringing . |
| 3 | Eliminating the risk element in electricity prices is the most important benefit that ICI expects from the planned 1725MW Enron power station on Teesside . |
| 4 | Somewhat anomalously , reference may even be made to later statutes , to see the meaning that Parliament puts on the same words in a similar context . |
| 5 | It is certainly true that states have in the past used methods and means of warfare not outlawed by any specific prohibition although running counter to general principles , and they have sought to justify this by reference either to the principle of reprisal or that of military effectiveness . |
| 6 | To a large extent that ideology looked to the Roman past . |
| 7 | The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) . |
| 8 | Most readers will probably recall being explicitly taught the concept of the antonym at school ( I seem to recall that antonyms figured in the late , unlamented 11 + exam ) . |
| 9 | Once new laws have been passed , workplace action is needed to ensure that employers comply with the new legislation . |
| 10 | Indeed , the Treasury worked skilfully to maintain its separateness by ensuring that CEPS worked to the financial year ( April to April ) whilst the Economic Section prepared its Survey on a calendar year basis . |
| 11 | The general consensous is that Kelly playing in the right back birth , instead of his normal striker role , had a brilliant game outshining everyone . |
| 12 | There can be little doubt that Nizan departed for the Soviet Union in January 1934 in a crusading spirit . |
| 13 | The moral justice that Nizan attributed to the Soviet state was heightened by the rise of fascism on the international scene , by the need for a popular front anti-fascist movement . |
| 14 | So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts . |
| 15 | It shows the appalling deprivation and human loss that Russians suffered during the Second World War and the difficulty that children of the thirties had in adjusting to life in post-war Russia . |
| 16 | Even ITN has had to turn to CNN for some footage of the Gulf , but that does n't cause Phillis any problems : ‘ I 'm a great admirer — Turner 's done a marvellous job , ’ adding that while the US network has received plaudits for its Gulf coverage , it is merely returning the coverage that ITN provided of the Conservative leadership contest . |
| 17 | It is in this context that proposals emerging from the Critical Legal Studies movement in the USA are of considerable interest , and in particular Roberto Unger 's conception of a self-revising institutional structure ‘ that would provide constant occasions to disrupt any fixed structure of power and co-ordination in social life ’ ( Unger , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | It is significant that Kerschensteiner insisted on the practical and the theoretical being part of the same syllabus , with the former leading on to an appreciation of the latter : it meant that ‘ civic virtues ’ had to be practised in order for them to become meaningful . |
| 19 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |
| 20 | Not for him the acrobatics that fiction attributes to the American rich . |
| 21 | ( 1983 ) have argued that maps based on the European Air Chemistry Network may be misleading in several respects , such as in failing adequately to show the pattern of time variations over the years or the large degree of uncertainty attaching to individual contours , and assuming a geographical homogeneity which is not borne out by detailed calculations with data taken from adjacent sites . |
| 22 | Even if the slide is not feasible , you can still throw your centre of gravity forward , so that weight increases on the leading leg . |
| 23 | This is because when the tetrads that Michell found on the one-inch map are investigated on a 6-inch sheet , they become distressingly ‘ crooked ’ . |
| 24 | The meeting called for the immediate demobilisation of the contras and urged that funds approved for the Nicaraguan rebels be channelled through a commission they had established earlier . |
| 25 | They were unable to reach agreement on the delivery of a 900-megawatt nuclear power plant , reportedly due to French insistence that Pakistan adhere to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) subjecting all nuclear exports to inspection . |
| 26 | The USSR became India 's main external source of weaponry and rendered extensive economic aid ; Soviet support was in part a response to the support that Pakistan received from the Chinese , with whom the Indians had an unresolved border dispute . |
| 27 | The notion that Freud has of the sexual instincts is not primarily about reproduction , however , but the generalized capacity of the human organism to find erotic satisfaction from any part of the body being caressed or stimulated , quite apart from the act of reproduction . |
| 28 | The two examples that Picasso owned on the other hand could certainly be called primitive , both in conception and execution . |
| 29 | Mori Indicates that rugs based on the traditional designs of weaving groups in other countries ( in particular the Persian town of Kashan and the Turkoman Bokharas ) were made in Pakistan . |
| 30 | The research now available shows that crime tripled between the two world wars , particularly at the time of the great depression . |