Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ended in May 1915 , during one of the most politically testing weeks in Asquith 's premiership , with the lady 's retreat into a curious marriage to Edwin Montagu , a lesser member of the government and a very close friend — indeed acolyte — of the prime minister , and it is about Montagu that this book has most of new interest to say . |
| 2 | There is considerable concern in Strathclyde and inside the Educational Institute of Scotland that such delaying ballots may get out of control , and parents in popular schools may decide to vote Yes . |
| 3 | But it may be that even where there is evidence that the patient was mentally unfit or too young , the doctor would still avoid liability , not so much on the basis of the patient 's refusal as on the proposition of Elliott that further treatment was useless , or that of Williams that life had become a burden to the patient . |
| 4 | They at once proceeded to make a perambulation without authorization , and publicly proclaimed in the city of York that any forester who entered the forest would lose his head . |
| 5 | Besides which , butler 's argument really moves at the level of phenomenology only , as an account of the conscious character of desire , and hardly takes on the idea of someone like Spinoza that all activity at a deeper level is a manifestation of the organism 's disposition to preserve and enhance its own being . |
| 6 | Alternatively they can argue with Lenin that liberal democracy is the best possible shell for capitalism . |
| 7 | It is indicative of the particular local society in Sheffield that this gesture had to be made . |
| 8 | Western concern over the control structure governing the nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union had been compounded by reports in January that some Third-World countries , including Iran , Iraq , and Libya , had offered ex-Soviet scientists substantial financial rewards to persuade them to develop their nuclear programmes . |
| 9 | It was only when democracy was restored in Spain that this legacy truly began to break down and the form of state enterprises changed to accommodate the interests of organized labour . |
| 10 | ‘ This is the first time in the history of higher education in Scotland that any lecturer has been threatened with compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There is a groundswell of opinion in Scotland that urgent legislation is needed to curb the carrying of these weapons , ’ Mr McFall said . |
| 12 | Earlier , on April 17 , Pérez de Cuéllar had said in Paris that any plan to deploy foreign troops in northern Iraq required Iraqi permission and that a UN-backed police force would need " the agreement of the Security Council " . |
| 13 | However the link was not lost , and the hope grew in Israel that one day God would raise up a prince of the Davidic line for whom the Spirit would be no passing enduement , to be bestowed and with drawn as he joined his predecessors in disobedience . |
| 14 | The kings had been pretty poor specimens as ‘ sons ’ : they showed little enough of Yahweh 's family likeness , and there was a long-standing hope in Israel that one day God would bring into the world a messianic Son , a worthy ruler to sit on David 's throne . |
| 15 | This week news comes from Australia that this technique has been taken a stage further ( p 271 ) . |
| 16 | Diffusion of responsibility occurs to such a degree in Japan that outright blame is not easily assigned . |
| 17 | This is the first time in Britain … possibly in Europe that this legislation has been used for enforcement in this way |
| 18 | The airlines clearly believe that they can hang on to their lucrative business market despite evidence from France that high speed trains can have a major impact on travel preferences . |
| 19 | The Chansons de Geste of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries centred in the court of Charlemagne ; and it was from France that this type of heroic epic spread to Germany . |
| 20 | Moreover , on Feb. 17 the Moscow media reports were retracted on the basis of a denial by officials in Samarkand that any unrest had taken place . |
| 21 | Even though a state of emergency was declared in Kenya that same month none of the family seemed particularly perturbed . |
| 22 | ‘ We believed the rumour on Tuesday that British Aerospace was building up a big shareholding but we are not so sure now , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 23 | The Baron had been the Prince 's tutor at Oxford and was living proof to Sharpe that most education was a waste of effort , for none of Rebecque 's modest good sense had rubbed off on the Prince . |
| 24 | Suddenly it dawned on Ramsay that this flag was considerably larger than that flown by the Regent . |
| 25 | In 1983 production increased from 58.3 MTOE ( 1982 ) to 61.5 MTOE and the Netherlands proposed to Britain that Dutch gas could replace Norwegian should the two parties be unable to reach an agreement on Sleipner as subsequently proved to be the case . |
| 26 | I mean you can see , it 's self evident as you travel to Strensall that that development has been highly successful and s and the s the final seventh point is that the A sixty four north east corridor can be well served by the public transport to achieve the close relationship between the workplace and home , as national policy now seeks . |
| 27 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 28 | In fact there was nothing ‘ reasonable ’ about it , and Bismarck knew this , for at the first whisper of Leopold 's appearance on the scene the French Ambassador had , officially , let it be known to Berlin that this candidacy would never be accepted by Napoleon III . |
| 29 | A large English naval campaign in 1372 had proved abortive , an expedition to relieve Brest in 1373 ineffective , a progress led by Gaunt from Calais to Bordeaux that same year a ‘ grandiose failure ’ , and a costly expedition to Brittany in 1375 too late to achieve its aim of influencing peace negotiations at Bruges . |
| 30 | She told the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities conference at Dunblane that this week 's speech by Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , on the need for more emphasis on the three Rs and other traditional teaching methods was yet a further move which would demoralise teachers . |