Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rev. Thomas Arnold , founder of the Oral School for the Deaf at Northampton in 1868 after trying out the system with only a limited success with a special class at the Yorkshire Institution where that great advocate of sign language , Charles Baker , was Principal , did probably more than any other person to establish the oral system in Britain with the fine academic record of his school . |
| 2 | She closed her eyes and arched blindly against him , let him guide her into another kind of darkness , where that unknown vortex of emotion , that powerful pull of attraction between them swirled and hypnotised , and this time the stars behind her eyelids were brilliant but softly incandescent , fireworks of intense delight , bursting in her head … |
| 3 | The genes , as we shall see , are more like a recipe than like a blueprint ; and a recipe , moreover , that is obeyed not by the developing embryo as a whole , but by each cell or each local cluster of dividing cells . |
| 4 | It should perhaps come as no surprise that the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) in England and Wales has some of the characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ( NAEP ) in the US ; or that new moves in the UK to establish procedures to make incompetent teachers liable to sanctions ( reported in the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 5 | If the British governments of the 1980s had been elected by proportional representation , it is almost unthinkable that any party could have gained a sufficient majority to impose the sweeping reforms instituted by Mrs Thatcher — or that decisive government of any hue could be achieved in the future . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 7 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 8 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |
| 9 | It could be that Navigation Mixte is teaming up to buy Paribas or that friendly defenders of Paribas such as Axa-Midi are strengthening their holdings . |
| 10 | Assistance may only be granted , however , where the Commissioner believes that the breach of rule about which the member is complaining is one which affects or may affect other members of the union or that similar breaches of the rules have been or may be committed in relation to other members of the union . |
| 11 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |
| 12 | The propaganda campaign against the deployment of Euromissiles was lost , despite considerable public opposition in the countries concerned ; and the war in Afghanistan was brought to an end , because of its cost as well as unpopularity , on terms that offered no guarantee the Najibullah government would survive or that external intervention in its affairs would cease ( it finally collapsed in 1992 ) . |
| 13 | B : Raul Julia , or that ghoulish Gomez of The Addams Family |
| 14 | There is nothing surprising , therefore , in the fact that new conceptions should have been formulated — of the ‘ developmentalist ’ state , the ‘ interventionist ’ state , the particular forms of the state in ‘ industrial ’ or ‘ post-industrial ’ societies — or that political development in the twentieth century and its antecedents in the nineteenth century should have been reinterpreted in terms of democracy and totalitarianism , and of the rise of the nation state as well as the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 15 | Does this mean that industrialization caused certain changes in the family ; or that certain changes in the family were a necessary ( if not sufficient ) precondition for industrialization to take place ; or that , more vaguely , there is some degree of ‘ fit ’ between a certain type of family and a certain type of economy ? |
| 16 | Another cause is that complete regions of DNA are transposed from one part of the molecule to another , or that foreign DNA from a virus has been inserted . |
| 17 | It is not that stylistics is uninterested in this or that local feature of a text ; but rather that local or specific features have to be seen in relation to other features , against the background of the pervasive tendency of preferences in the text . |
| 18 | Maybe , I 'll take a trip to Granada or that shimmering village of Mojacar on the hill . |
| 19 | It affects every citizen in the UK , in direct or indirect ways that , for example , the manufacturing sector of the economy has drastically shrunk or that large proportions of young people still leave full-time education and go on to experience only low-level , underfunded training thereafter . |
| 20 | This overcame the concern that some states might compete for industry by setting lax requirements , so becoming ‘ polluter havens ’ , or that large industry in some states might lobby for the establishment of permissive standards . |
| 21 | There may be an improvement in the child 's already abundant energy or that nebulous sense of well being that we all know about but find so hard to put into words . |
| 22 | Dr Cassidy put forward fairly Burmin 's assertions that gold mining on Croagh Patrick would in no way interfere with the pilgrimage : ‘ I say in all fairness that should planning permission for mining ever be granted Burmin have given me repeated assurances that there will be no interference with the Pilgrim Path , there would be no interference with Patrick 's Peak or that particular part of the mountain range . ’ |
| 23 | A causal episode , in the given sense , is not in itself a physical process , or that particular kind of physical process which is a neural process-a process of the Central Nervous System of a person or other organism . |
| 24 | This presentation is schematic ; and it will , of course , be possible to show this or that particular instance as a departure from the proposition advanced by Mr Jay . |
| 25 | If we find that , on the basis of informal interview , the writer is telling us that all working-class men love their employers dearly , or that working-class girls at grammar schools have no divided loyalties , do we accept these claims or dismiss them ? |
| 26 | As Gramsci points out , the religion of the clergy is not necessarily the religion of this or that social group of laity , whose religious interpretation is also related to their own concrete world of experience . |
| 27 | Clearly statements about the service ( e.g. that English meals are provided or that special dishes for children can be obtained ) can not relate to present facts , for the simple reason that the hotel is closed in December when the brochure is sent out . |
| 28 | Or that octagonal shilling from Pontefract . ’ |
| 29 | The plainer truth is that this is so obvious , as obvious as Leeds Town Hall , that Mr Smith would be elected by any Labour Party forum , by a ballotted union membership , a ballotted constituency membership , or that secret vote of MPs to which Labour will do well to return . |
| 30 | ( iv ) If cells of known age are required , culture the isolated cells and examine them at hourly or half hourly intervals for division . |