Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand the challenge to the papacy that this scene represents , we need to look at the structure of the traditional Church and also at popular religion at the beginning of the thirteenth century . |
| 2 | The present results lend further support to the idea that alternative splicing is the major mechanism for generating MHC isoform diversity in smooth muscle cells . |
| 3 | My examination of Nizan 's communist novels ( Chapter 7 ) will be directed at accomplishing two tasks : first , to examine the processes whereby each of three texts is produced and reproduced in successively different historical situations ; here , particular emphasis will be given to the idea that each text is not a perfectly finished artistic product but the narrative site of ideological and literary contradictions . |
| 4 | It is the heir of a nineteenth-century ideology that , though supposedly liberal and contemplative , is also élitist , anti-vocational , antimarket , and indeed downright hostile to the idea that higher education should prepare young people to take their places in a wealth-producing economy . |
| 5 | You , you get used to the idea that all squares must be positive , so a negative number ca n't have a square root . |
| 6 | Certainly we may feel a resistance to the idea that mental events are in space . |
| 7 | These distinctions are important , because the ‘ ancient pine forest ’ myth has led to the idea that chemical-sensitive patients are also likely to react to pine wood and pine products . |
| 8 | It is not surprising that there were many attracted to the idea that scientific knowledge was the only true kind , or at least that reasoning like that used in the sciences could solve all human problems . |
| 9 | This social tactic leads to the idea that linguistic deficit has been established empirically . |
| 10 | Leavis held firm to the idea that any kind of responsible discussion of literature was a critical act , so that the academic was inescapably engaged in criticism when lecturing or conducting a seminar . |
| 11 | It is likely that there would be significant opposition to the idea that local taxes should bear the burden of redeeming the old debt as well as building up new capital . |
| 12 | Already in this chapter I have referred to the idea that Christian commitment has become a matter of private belief . |
| 13 | In 1939 nearly everyone had a direct or indirect memory of mass warfare and mindless patriotism was much less important than a conscious commitment to the idea that aggressive fascism could not be stopped by any method short of war . |
| 14 | We referred in Chapter 1 , also , to the possibility that professional people may develop attitudes which place the interests of the profession before those of the public they are intended to serve . |
| 15 | Thus , if the parties did actually turn their minds to the possibility that such things might happen ( e.g. that the goods might perish ) and provided in the contract for that eventuality , then the effect of the event occurring will be whatever is stated in their contract . |
| 16 | He gives equal emphasis to the possibility that such characteristics make the game an ideal vehicle for aggressive confrontations between rival groups of young males . |
| 17 | The second , however , has not been seen in our study or in others and could be related to the possibility that gastric acid secretion might not necessarily be raised when NSAIDs are taken on longterm basis , three years in this study . |
| 18 | However , the teacher was still alert to the possibility that some children might use collaboration as a cover . |
| 19 | With regard to the possibility that large changes in body weight ( equal to or >10% of initial weight ) might represent a risk factor , only one case of gall stone recurrence was detected in those who lost >10% of starting weight and none was seen in those who gained weight . |
| 20 | Some feminist psychotherapists have interpreted fat as a ‘ protection ’ against sexuality , such theories relying on definitions of fat as undesirable , contributing to the myth that fat people are asexual . |
| 21 | Still , it is essential to the story that such thoughts be entertained , as indeed Gandalf also says to Pippin : ‘ If you will meddle in the affairs of Wizards , you must be prepared to think of such things ’ ( 11 , 199 ) . |
| 22 | Let's suppose you show a child a picture of a cow , and you indicate to the child that that animal is known as a cow . |
| 23 | Yet his possession of patterns of sexual dimorphism closely comparable to those of the modern gelada baboon point with equal force to the supposition that modern man acquired along with those gross features of bodily structure behavioural propensities appropriate to them . |
| 24 | This evidence lends weight to the supposition that most quasars are the active nuclei of normal galaxies — not necessarily giant galaxies — and suggest that any hydrogen-rich system might be triggered into such activity . |
| 25 | But the Cambridgeshire result gives lie to the notion that nice guys ca n't win . |
| 26 | In this paper , I examine three different kinds of approach to the notion that disabled people are not normal . |
| 27 | So too bad that Wilko would not give the guy a real chance — specially regarding to the stuff that that Wilko spoke when Frank signed . |
| 28 | To the criticism that such exposure is as likely to be destructive as constructive , he counters that it is the person 's behaviour in a team with a specific task ahead that is under discussion , not the person himself . |
| 29 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 30 | The second point is that though everyone subscribes to the principle that voluntary organisations should be included in Joint planning , the principle is often executed in fairly ad hoc ways . |