Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There the eleventh-century proliferation of consuetudines and castellanies had been modified by the survival ( in places at least ) of the old administrative framework , and by the tradition that serious offences were justiciable in a court higher than that of the castellan . |
| 2 | It was conceded by the court that this finding was on a strict view irrelevant , since there was a break between the clearing of the premises and the assault with which the appellant had been charged , which was a separate incident . |
| 3 | The King 's displeasure with the two counties was marked by the order that all church bells be confiscated . |
| 4 | It is also assumed by the Act that any difference of opinion over the running of the partnership 's ordinary business will be decided by a simple majority of the partners , although any change in the nature of the firm 's business requires unanimity . |
| 5 | Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism . |
| 6 | And despite massive obstacles — the destruction caused by the First World War , the ravages of a civil war brought on by the support that foreign capitalists lent the savage counter-revolutionary efforts of Russia 's defeated classes , international isolation in the inter-war period , the appalling destruction wrought by Hitler 's rapacious invasion , the sustained hostility of the capitalist West — a socialist society was built . |
| 7 | The protest was further undermined by a compromise package put forward by the polytechnic that many students accepted . |
| 8 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 9 | The Commission 's recommendations for the extension of DNA profiling must be accompanied , as the Commission 's own researchers proposed , by the safeguard that legal aid should be provided in all cases to a defence expert to carry out an assessment of the evidence by replicating the tests conducted by the prosecution and considering their interpretation of the results . |
| 10 | The curia was worried by talk of modernization — especially perhaps by the thought that 2,500 bishops in Rome might make them change their procedures in unwelcome ways . |
| 11 | Thus belief in the credibility of punishment is sustained by the expectation that each firm will prefer to be the punisher than the punished . |
| 12 | Leaving aside this argument , however , we must also recognize that scholars have sometimes been more generally influenced by the notion that written language should be uniform , even in a period in which it plainly was not uniform , and they sometimes appear to chide the scribes for spelling variably . |
| 13 | The continuity of education should , however , have been assured by the requirement that former chantry priests — now pensioners dependent on the Court of Augmentations — were to teach the English Bible which was now widely available to the population . |
| 14 | The restrictions are entrenched by the requirement that any agreement authorising such activities must be approved by ‘ not less than three-fourths ( ¾ ) of the votes cast in such referendum . ’ |
| 15 | The obscurity of parts of scripture was also a source of embarrassment if one took the books collectively to be the essential medium of divine revelation ; but that could be mitigated by allegory , or by the principle that obscure texts are interpreted by what is clear . |
| 16 | However , previous warnings have been accompanied by the hope that good sense will prevail , and the level of pay settlements tumble . |
| 17 | In it , he entrusted his ‘ six sons ’ to the protection of his ‘ most celebrated and very dear friend ’ , adding that they were the products of long and laborious labour , but that he was encouraged by the hope that one day they would prove a source of consolation . |
| 18 | From the first , our meteorite collecting programmes have been motivated not for the sake of numbers alone but by the hope that large quantities of fragments would include samples of rare or completely new type of meteorites . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ Our initial horror and disbelief at what happened on that day was replaced over time by the realisation that that day heralded the start of the British Government 's Shoot-to-Kill policy in Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 20 | Eliot 's concern that his own urban society be well founded on a necessary myth was accentuated by the realization that this society was now annihilating other very different forms of civilization . |
| 21 | In the past , some relationships have been destroyed by the knowledge that one person is positive and the other negative . |
| 22 | Enhanced , too , by the knowledge that this story of the legions had reached the same evolutionary culmination not once but twice . |
| 23 | But predators came in various shapes and sizes , and he was troubled by the knowledge that any rescue party from the Simonova could also include the person who was responsible for dumping him in the escape pod . |
| 24 | The measure came amidst allegations by the government that neighbouring states hostile to Iraq had flooded the country with forged banknotes to destabilize the economy . |
| 25 | The phenomenon of expanding authorship in biomedical journal articles is not explained by the hypothesis that newer research technologies have necessitated more extensive collaboration . |
| 26 | Early versions of these theories were quickly taken up by clinical researchers looking for a formal way of examining what their patients — like the one above — were telling them and many experimental studies were carried out , guided by the hypothesis that schizophrenic features like overinclusive thinking are due to very weak filtration of the contents of thought , resulting in the psychotic individual finding it difficult to pursue a logically connected train of ideas . |
| 27 | He is a character easily overlooked by the reader of the text , for the bulk of the drama is conveyed in a series of dialogues between the other three characters , and attention is naturally attracted — or rather distracted — by the probability that this text is a script for a simple sort of play and thus very different from a straightforwardly narrative text . |
| 28 | This is further compounded by the belief that large screens will solve all problems — they do n't . |
| 29 | The question of how we are to construct explanations that reflect this insight is not swept away by the conclusion that one approach to the task is inadequate , and the problem therefore remains as pressing as ever . |
| 30 | Fundamentally , many regard the ‘ conflict ’ over housing as an extension of the major divisions in society and argue that the allocation of housing is determined largely by the power that each group has come to possess in a society with a long history of class conflict ( Haddon 1970 ; Duncan 1976 ; Mellor 1977 ) . |