Example sentences of "[prep] that [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Utilising existing artwork — such as that given in a project — simply involves tracing the copper track layout onto a film , using the methods described last month .
2 Increasingly , however , the phase of such near total dependence is protracted by severe physical or mental infirmity , such as that caused by a stroke or dementia .
3 Since the heat capacities of sample and reference are different ΔT is never actually zero , and a change in heat capacity , such as that associated with a glass transition , will cause a shift in the base line .
4 On neurophysiological grounds one would expect there to be considerable differences between different individuals with regard to the most effective channels of learning ; therefore , one must regard statements such as that quoted with a certain amount of scepticism .
5 The desire to outshine others provoked extravagance , such as that shown by a Marquise who wrote to a friend : ‘ I have been invited to Compiègne for a week so I have sold a mill ! ’
6 Somehow the words ‘ dietary fibre ’ do tend to conjure up an image of being put out to graze on food that has all the comfort and flavour of that consumed by a sheep or a cow .
7 You feel the weight of that compared to a gateau box .
8 The results presented so far imply that the information acquired during non-reinforced exposure to a stimulus , like that acquired as a consequence of other conditioning procedures , requires the presence of appropriate contextual cues if it is to be fully retrieved .
9 Chests like that belonged to a different age , a dangerous age of swashbucklers , and buccaneers who gloried in their toughness , stripped themselves to the elements , and laughed , bare-chested , into the teeth of icy sea-winds .
10 A wild creature like that kept in a cage for the rest of his life — oh , that would be cruel .
11 This has led to situations like that described in A Job Well Done ? by Helene Middleweek and Michael Ward , a report prepared on behalf of the Co-ordination Committee for the Welfare of Evacuees from Uganda , of a family consisting of mother , father and thirteen-year-old son , where neither of the parents spoke any English and the father was almost paralysed .
12 This results in a common word like " History " being assigned a weight which is very low compared with that assigned to a rare word such as " swords " .
13 In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) .
14 This compares the shape of the natural TL glow curve ( see fig. 7.10 ) with that induced by a laboratory dose : at low temperature the signal is not stable and the ratio of the TL signals varies , but at temperatures above about 300°C there should be a plateau .
15 This value may be compared with that predicted by a very simple photochemical box model .
16 But the mara 's problem is simple compared with that faced by a mother bat .
17 These symbols are used to denote particular aspects of the hotel 's operation which are considered significantly above the standard applied by the star classification granted , but not necessarily above that expected from a hotel in a higher classification .
18 The modules are structured into five levels , from Module 1 which is designed for complete beginners through to Module 5 , in which students attain a level of competence some way above that required for a pass at SEB Higher Grade .
19 Although the nature of the 1:50,000 potency created is different from that created by a 1:100 ratio ( ‘ … my new method produces medicines of the highest power and the mildest action … ’ §270 ) it is interesting to note the theoretical relationship with the centesimal scale .
20 A possible basis for the contrast was suggested : proper names single out principal protagonists in narratives , and so , even in the simplest of materials , will tend to put the named character in a role which is likely to be different from that played by a character introduced through a noun .
21 Although the action required of the compositor is very little different from that required by a typewriter , the atmosphere surrounding the machine would be perceived as a very " masculine " one .
22 A goal of short-term profit maximisation implies conduct different in important respects from that required by a long-term profit goal .
23 The combination of port activities and maritime industries produced a rather different civil society from that found in a ‘ pure ’ port like Liverpool .
24 Regardless of the methods used , however , the quality of print is superb and is referred to as ‘ letter ’ or ‘ correspondence ’ quality indicating that it is indistinguishable from that produced by a professional office typewriter .
25 There were fears that if the date for stabilisation was altered from that promised in a recent government white paper , the privatisation of the electricity industry would be jeopardised .
26 A procedure for the righting of wrongs which depends on peace-making and on the payment of enough compensation to make the peace hold , implies a different notion of justice from that embodied in a penal code in which offences are offences against the state .
27 Indeed , the line between ‘ predation ’ and dispersal mechanism is hazy in that plants with a small numbers of seeds in any season may lose the whole crop to ‘ dispersal agents ’ .
28 When Lord Addison was made Minister of Health he concentrated entirely on methods of financing council housing , and under the ill-conceived Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 he guaranteed local authorities all losses over that covered by a penny rate .
29 Conclusions ranged from condemnation of general practitioner care as ‘ erratic , ’ of ‘ generally poor standard ’ and ‘ less satisfactory than care by the hospital diabetic clinic ’ to a view that organised general practitioner diabetic care ‘ can achieve a degree of glycaemic control … equal to that reached by a hospital clinic . ’
30 The county court said that it was not , this interpretation being opposite to that reached by a different county court .
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