Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Mike 's main responsibilities is the five-year rolling environmental improvement plan and it is this that dictates much of his workload . |
| 2 | Dominant social attitudes towards retirement place the personal needs of older people in a subservient position to the perceived social and economic interests of the wider society , and it is this that causes many older people problems , bringing into question their personal value and worth , and placing them under considerable social stress . |
| 3 | However , it has become clear that to implement such knowledge in language processing systems it is necessary to use semantics in its broader sense , i.e. using encyclopaedic knowledge and general knowledge . |
| 4 | We feel the savage assault and the cold breath of the infinite that causes this frost of many colours and the stilling of the images , with its beauty . |
| 5 | It was perhaps the heightened awareness , evident in this film , of what distinguished the Americans from the British that produced such a weird send-up of the archetypal Englishman in the company 's popular adaptation of Rider Haggard 's King Solomon 's Mines ( 1937 ) . |
| 6 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 7 | In ten minutes , a tree hundreds of years old that supports many other plant and animal lives can be destroyed with the snick of a chainsaw . |
| 8 | So far as the desktop publisher is concerned there are many packages that can share data without any form of translation being required as well as a few that need some gentle tweaking . |
| 9 | Some are so strongly aromatic as to be spicy , and tarragon in particular is one of the few that has such a strong taste it does need adding in minuscule amounts to meat or fish dishes . |
| 10 | But there are always a few that fit neither category , and seem most of all to require a personal answer to a specific question . |
| 11 | so those few that entered most of them got prizes and it was three police forces that entered and they all got awards . |
| 12 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 13 | Strict conventionalism would be a very restrictive conception of law for us because the explicit extensions of our putative conventions Of legislation and precedent contain very little that has much practical importance in actual litigation . |
| 14 | This case falls within ( a ) : the school was so over-subscribed that to admit all the applicants would have prejudiced the provision of efficient education . |
| 15 | ‘ By the time the weary reader has plodded that far , it will be clear even to the uninitiated that writing this book was a labour of hate — for reasons reviewers can not be expected to discern and which are in any case of small interest . |
| 16 | We have a line charge in front of a dielectric that fills half the space . |
| 17 | That is , inner cities are perceived as ‘ deviant communities ’ , areas which need to be turned around and brought back into the mainstream , a mainstream that requires little or no restructuring or reform . |
| 18 | I mean th there w there was always some kind of trigger that that that broke that initial feeling of isolation and and suspicion . |
| 19 | While the WFS statistics show that maternal age and child 's birth order influence child mortality , the effect is not such that confining these traits to desirable limits would reduce infant mortality to the extent that , say , mother 's education would , although important improvements could be effected . |
| 20 | The popular poet 's imagination , skill and learning could concoct , at that instant , a sustained story with a cast of hundreds that linked all those wars , love affairs , catastrophes , comedies and come-what-may into a coherent whole . |
| 21 | It was wholly appropriate that to reach this landmark the jockey would have to produce one of his greatest efforts . |
| 22 | At the time it seemed one of the better right hands I 've ever thrown — from the shoulder , punching not at but through the target , with half-pivot that threw all my weight behind the blow . |
| 23 | Princess Di — the National Dish was the title of an irreverent book in 1984 that examined this phenomenon . |
| 24 | It 's one of these that uses less fuel . |
| 25 | he 's erm he 's a lot more intelligent than he lets on , and he 's one of these that lets all the others push him down , where at the end of the day he can turn round |
| 26 | Most of them can be put together quite cheaply but without ruining the style or atmosphere of the room ; on the contrary it 's often these that add most of the character to a room and reflect your personality better than the bought pieces which can look like everyone else 's . |
| 27 | It became obvious that to insert any metal object into a hole containing explosive was highly dangerous . |
| 28 | right er it 's unusual that knocking that is n't it ? |
| 29 | The comprehensive ideal is simply the ideal that holds all children worthy to be educated . |
| 30 | ‘ Good that clears that one up . |