Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attitudinism directly relates ethics to the will , but it neglects the phenomenological fact that we think of values and obligations as something actually there . |
| 2 | First , such a model assumes a static population-that is , it neglects the obvious fact that new generations of school ( the age group where use tends to begin ) are constantly emerging . |
| 3 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 4 | The issue lacked the clear-headed analysis that I have come to expect from NI . |
| 5 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |
| 6 | The authors believe the cause of these persistent spells lies in the ability of the short waves to react on the long waves in such a way that , under certain situations , they favour the very pattern that caused them . |
| 7 | It points out that strategies for pursuing the general interest that seem obvious in one generation will come to be questioned in another , and so will be changed naturally , from within the judicial process , not outside it . |
| 8 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 9 | She clenched her jaw to kill the sultry languor that was stealing over her at the sight of his thick lashes lying in two black arcs on his gilded cheekbones . |
| 10 | I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has . |
| 11 | From the creative user 's point of view , the problem with ‘ lifestyle ’ approaches is that they attempt to generalize , and by generalizing they lose the fine detail that distinguishes habits and attitudes in any individual market . |
| 12 | I despise the sinister bacchanalia that marked ‘ Guernica ’ 's last night in the annexe to the Prado , the orgy of explosions , the slow cavalcade , the deployment of the military to escort ‘ Guernica ’ 's coffin from its mausoleum of the Prado annexe , the Casón del Buen Retiro , to the fish tank of the Reina Sofía [ MNCARS ] . |
| 13 | The force of the argument just presented may not be overwhelming but it is enough to prompt the tentative conclusion that , in addition to the habituation process invoked by exposure to a stimulus , some other process comes into play and is responsible for latent inhibition . |
| 14 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 15 | Economies of scale mean that size does still matter : to succeed , companies have to grow while constantly guarding against building the sclerotic bureaucracy that bolsters a sense of infallibility that was IBM 's ultimate downfall . |
| 16 | In interviews , respondents would emphasize the central place that their immediate family had in their lives . |
| 17 | As Goffmann points out , the end of conversational encounters carry an increased risk of creating offence — in the sense that careless or perfunctory termination may convey the misleading impression that one could n't wait for the session to end and that as far as one was concerned the whole episode was a waste of time . |
| 18 | HMIs have clearly sensed that in launching their series of studies , even if their highly focused character may convey the subliminal message that they are interested more in mechanisms and techniques than in broader perspectives . |
| 19 | This time course parallels the slow-onset potentiation that can be induced by the application of certain agents , such as arachidonic acid , and ACPD . |
| 20 | The sun westered as she passed the gutted farm that had now been pulled down . |
| 21 | The national executive committee agreed the following day that an electoral conference would be held on July 18 . |
| 22 | I have just returned from a NATO meeting last week at which we agreed the military strategy that will accompany the strategic concept now agreed , of which Germany is a prominent supporter . |
| 23 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
| 24 | However , if the courts display the commonsense approach that the House of Lords did in the one relevant reported case of any importance , the probability is that we shall get by without much trouble . |
| 25 | Lisa and Phoebe shared the painful knowledge that they had been conning themselves as well as their men . |
| 26 | Er and we shared the common objective that these minutes would have to be scrutinized purposefully because if there was any element er in any of the minutes that we did n't disagree with , then we would point it out to the management and had a redraft and have a signed redraft er by the secretary and the convenor , which meant that er at least we were all talking with a common voice . |
| 27 | Weber and later organization theorists shared the common assumption that a single hierarchical ordering of the state 's organizations is an ineluctable but generally desirable feature of the modern state . |
| 28 | Both shared the common assumption that Spain was itself decadent and ‘ behind ’ Europe : the radicals were pessimists and wholesale Europeanizers like the later Progressive Liberals , while the Caroline bureaucrats were moderate patriots who resented the airs of superiority which the French philosophes adopted towards Spain . |
| 29 | He had been taught the hard lesson that you eat where there is food , because food is sustenance and without it there is failure and collapse . |
| 30 | On the one hand , such action would simply rekindle the international outcry that resulted in the postponement of the ‘ harvest ’ or cull in the first place . |