Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] that [adj] [noun] " 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 | When Charles cut down the sacred tree Irminsul , he was destroying the one central element of Saxony that all tribes seemed to look to and respect . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend 's constituents will recognise that it is vital for the future prosperity of Swindon that those schemes be implemented as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The tour takes you to parts of this lovely area of Austria that most clients do n't find . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All this was intended to demonstrate to the king of France that these officials were not the king-duke 's accredited representatives , but merely the delegates of his seneschal . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was a general statement throughout Rhodesia that African girls could not do maths . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In it , John tells us something about Jesus that all Christians need to remember . |
| 12 | Alternatively they can argue with Lenin that liberal democracy is the best possible shell for capitalism . |
| 13 | It is indicative of the particular local society in Sheffield that this gesture had to be made . |
| 14 | In proving in Z and in Q[x] that all irreducibles are primes we make essential use of the appropriate division algorithm . |
| 15 | It was assumed in McHugh that these facts would also amount to theft , but Morris scotches that notion : the driver is authorised to put petrol in the tank . ) |
| 16 | However , not all those leaving Romania could be regarded as permanent refugees ; the news agency Rompres reported in February that some refugees were beginning to return home . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ This is the first time in the history of higher education in Scotland that any lecturer has been threatened with compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There is a groundswell of opinion in Scotland that urgent legislation is needed to curb the carrying of these weapons , ’ Mr McFall said . |
| 21 | The deteriorating economy prompted an announcement in November that all foods would be rationed [ for restrictions on consumption of fuel and electricity see pp. 37813-14 ] . |
| 22 | The Institute of Directors , the CBI and some chartered accountants in business are critical of the suggestion in Cadbury that non-executive directors should have much enhanced responsibilities to check and balance the power of the executive board . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This week news comes from Australia that this technique has been taken a stage further ( p 271 ) . |
| 27 | Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) . |
| 28 | The range of coins available was sufficient for even the smallest transactions , and we can glimpse from reading a Latin novel such as The Golden Ass of Apuleius or from the many papyri which have survived from Egypt that these societies used coinage very much as we do . |
| 29 | It is also the standard rule in Yugoslavia that these bodies are not entitled to run surpluses or deficits , except for short periods as a consequence of unforeseen events . |
| 30 | In 1977 , for instance , rumours circulated in Ajdabiya that two lineages in Hawari , from different sections of Jlulat , were in active hostilities . |