Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Synthetic statements are those which make a claim about how the world is and are true ( or false ) accordingly , for instance that all bachelors are carefree . |
| 2 | Well you will find for instance that three times as many people will strongly oppose and was strongly in favour , something omitted from the report in front of me and there are eight per cent there that were indifferent . |
| 3 | In his veto message to Congress Bush reiterated his opposition to abortion and stated that the veto was " important in order to prevent taxpayer funds from being used for research that many Americans find morally repugnant " , but also because of the bill 's " potential for promoting and legitimatizing abortion " . |
| 4 | But the law did not take specific account of Arabs who left their homes for fear that Israeli forces might cause them harm — the reason most Arabs give for their sudden departure . |
| 5 | They may be unwilling to criticise the decision for fear that future projects will be jeopardised . |
| 6 | Frankfurt : Prices fell sharply on inflation worries after news that wholesale prices surged by 1.1 per cent . |
| 7 | No-one in their right minds would have believed that Labour wanted to abolish heterosexuality or promote AIDS , but such was the level of fear and ignorance about homosexuality that these ideas could be aired . |
| 8 | What it will do is to identify those kinds of misspelling that most pupils are likely to make : appropriate teaching at this stage helps to avoid remedial teaching later . |
| 9 | A minority were more fortunate , if one can take as reasonably accurate the report by the Commissariat of Agriculture that 109,705 peasants were taken out of the famine zone and settled on farming land in Siberia , the Ukraine , the Caucasus , and elsewhere . |
| 10 | Again , since it is assumed by this act of faith that all individuals are equal in the sight of God , man or both , then dissent must be tolerated and each has the right to put his own point of view . |
| 11 | It is likely in this kind of case that Regional Railways might seek a partnership operation with a local council or one of the passenger transport executives to establish a light rail line . |
| 12 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 13 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 14 | If Rutland was typical of agrarian society it would have been understood as a matter of course that most men were peasant farmers and smallholders ; indeed , husbandman was the commonest description there , followed by labourers and servants whose status was one of dependence , and landless peasants who did not conform to the stereotype of a society composed of small independent producers . |
| 15 | Such was John 's desperate need of money that substantial sums were ordered to be paid by the ‘ collectors of the fine ’ directly to the king 's servants and into the king 's Chamber . |
| 16 | Central Government has taken more and more control of what local councils can do , and in particular has control of the amount of money that local councils can spend erm more and more over the years . |
| 17 | In order to limit the degree of confusion that these factors may cause , the names of the traditional weaving areas ( Persia , Anatolia , the Caucasus , Afghanistan , Turkestan etc. ) have been used when discussing the weaving , history or design influences of their rugs , and the names of the modern states have been used when referring to purely commercial factors , such as import tariffs , government actions and subsidies . |
| 18 | Much more probably , unconscious memes have ensured their own survival by virtue of those same qualities of pseudo-ruthlessness that successful genes display . |
| 19 | I do n't know if you saw a programme a while ago about carbon sixty , a new form of carbon that some professors in America discovered . |
| 20 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 21 | Her association with birds and animals is linked with her ability to use natural drives and the type of primitive but effective forms of perception that these creatures possess . |
| 22 | The success of the new Continental R , and before that the Bentley Turbo , shows that if it can make the sort of car that new customers approve of , it should still be able to find 3,000 buyers a year around the world . |
| 23 | It is , though , a satisfying sort of car that most motorists could happily live with . |
| 24 | This , it argues , would minimise the risk of fraud that open borders would generate . |
| 25 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 26 | The essential thing is accuracy , for swimfeeder fishing is not the willy-nilly method of fishing that some anglers would have you believe . |
| 27 | ‘ You mean , was she the sort of girl that other girls could be friends with ? |
| 28 | We saw in our discussion of bureaucracy that such developments can lead to a more efficient and effective organisation . |
| 29 | Probably the rite was an ordeal , one of many rites of passage that young Minoans , girls as well as boys , had to undergo in order to achieve higher status . |
| 30 | This was in view of the company 's established reputation in providing environmental services safely and responsibly in pest control , clinical waste disposal , property conservation , timber pre-treatment , air cleaning equipment , water and air conditioning servicing , and generally carrying out the types of work that other companies are reluctant to undertake . |