Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be revealed the incredible amount of effort which in the name of ‘ god ’ , has been expended on all those evil things that it should be the objective of the kind of religion that the human race hungers for , to banish from the face of the earth . |
| 2 | it 's not a reflex action that the Labour Party somehow engages in , but there are things that we need to rave raise revenue for , such as investment in the economy , like our social policies , and that the way that we will raise revenue is that we we will have a fair taxation system , that is very straightforward , and agreed by the Party , unlike the Conservatives who firstly do n't recognize there is any purpose in investment in the economy , public investment , or investment in social policies they do n't agree with , and secondly , when they do have to raise money they do it in the unfairest possible way , penalizing most those who can least |
| 3 | It was perhaps with the expectation that food rioting sometimes secured short-term remedy that the eighteenth-century crowd resorted to it so frequently . |
| 4 | When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation . |
| 5 | The typical business card that the non-Japanese businessman should have will have the Japanese translation of the individual 's name on one side , along with his company , its address and the person 's title . |
| 6 | he contends , America did not maintain a permanent arms economy due to the desire to reduce unemployment ; it was because of a real perception that the Soviet Union was a threat to the West . |
| 7 | Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better . |
| 8 | There is a popular perception that the modern family has become a problem , that increasingly the family renounces its former responsibilities towards the care and maintenance of older relatives . |
| 9 | At the start , this strategy was to show the electorate that the Prime Minister was ‘ a very nice person ’ , tell them of the horrors of Labour 's tax policies and hope that in the twinkling of Mr Heseltine 's eye — aided by the applause of some celebrities and a giant ( and inexplicably awful ) stage set — the Conservatives would be back in government . |
| 10 | And then something was coughed out of that blackened spot with a sound like liquid choking ; coughed out from a hole where there was no hole , with such force that the jumbled shape landed with a slap on the corridor floor , five feet from the wall . |
| 11 | When Soviet doctors carried out the autopsy on Hitler 's partially burned body they could only find one testicle , lending credence to the popular wartime ditty that the German dictator was indeed deficient in this intimate area . |
| 12 | The LEA budget can not match the sort of investment that the fast food marketing chains make but , in promoting healthy eating , we can copy the best of their relatively inexpensive marketing and presentation techniques and use them to our advantage . |
| 13 | The strong showing of the two environmental parties — the Greens and Ecology Generation — who clearly benefited from a haemorrhage of votes from the socialists , must have convinced the President that the old party pulled together by him in 1971 and still led by its familiar herd of ‘ pink elephants ’ was doomed . |
| 14 | District councillors are under no illusion that the extra cash they are providing is enough to solve the problem entirely . |
| 15 | The windowpanes rattled furiously , and spidery fingers of crepitating electricity twitched and danced over the glass once more ; again creating the illusion that the entire office block was somehow enmeshed in some monstrous spider 's web . |
| 16 | In order to maintain the illusion that the Indian Union , though a republic in form as well as in reality , remained nevertheless part of the same political entity as the United Kingdom , the British in effect abolished their monarchy itself . |
| 17 | I am under no illusion on that score , he wrote , I am under no illusion that the big glass will in an instant blow all that away , flatten the critics against the walls , tear paintings from their places , bring the galleries tumbling to the ground . |
| 18 | No one considering the outcome could continue under the illusion that the co-operative form of organisation , as it is recognised in the west , can exist in any country the political constitution of which is modelled on the Soviet Russian derivative from Marxism . |
| 19 | So great was Paul 's obsession that the only way Mrs Bedworth could force him to take a break was by switching off the electricity supply at the mains , she told Southwark Crown Court . |
| 20 | Somehow , he forgot to deal with the allegation that the Prime Minister 's stay in Candelada gave the ‘ mark of approbation ’ to the animal abuse . |
| 21 | Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking . |
| 22 | Already in November 1941 , the SD was reporting ‘ disappointment that the final smashing of Bolshevism is not taking place as rapidly as hoped and that no end of the eastern campaign is in sight ’ , a dampening of optimism at the news of the first falls of snow and the feeling that further advancement might be extremely difficult , puzzlement at the failure to advance further when the Russian troops were allegedly so poor and so badly equipped , concern at the reports of continued tough resistance of the Soviet army , and pessimism that ‘ the way to the Urals was still a long one , and the partisan war could still last a good while ’ . |
| 23 | Since exports were expanding from a much smaller base , however , the merchandise deficit continued to widen , but was more than offset by earnings from foreign exchange transactions in the banking system with the result that the overall balance of payments remained positive . |
| 24 | The use of a shifting viewpoint spreads out the seated figure with the result that the genital area is prominently positioned at the centre of the canvas . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , by the end of the inter-war period the working class fertility rate was dropping as rapidly as that of the middle class , with the result that the two-child family was fast ceasing to be a middle class phenomenon . |
| 26 | Initial , would have to be interpreted as initial , plus post-initial , , with the result that the post-initial set of consonants would have to contain , , , and also , — consonants which are rather different from the other four and which could only combine with , . |
| 27 | It transpired that the foundations of the chimney were inadequate , with the result that the entire structure sank some ten inches , taking floors and arches with it ! |
| 28 | Under his guidance it began to act coherently , with the result that the Liberal leadership was compelled to pay more attention to Welsh causes . |
| 29 | Extremist doctrinal rigidity and aggressiveness were preferred to constructive attempts to confront real issues , with the result that the practical reality of politics was simply obliterated beneath a series of purely arbitrary images and myths . |
| 30 | This is because the relation between mountain and hill is the same as that between hill and hillock , and hillock and mound , with the result that the following proportionality holds : mountain is to hill as lake is to pond . |