Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 2 | The international banking community was so nervous that for a while no forward foreign exchange markets operated properly anywhere . |
| 3 | This protects the public gaze from the true story and means that for a decade the authorities have been able to work on the assumption that what the eye does n't see the heart wo n't grieve over . |
| 4 | These changes show how financial pressures brought about the collapse of the early Roman coinage system ; so much so that it seems that for a time the Roman state had to fight the war on credit given by some of its citizens . |
| 5 | Although in the sixth century the Byzantine Emperor Justinian 's great generals Belisarius and Narses succeeded in reconquering much of the west , so that for a time the Mediterranean again became a Roman lake , in the following century Europe faced a dangerous new enemy . |
| 6 | Wexford waited patiently , for he guessed that for a moment the man was totally unable to speak . |
| 7 | Horror coursed through Grainne , so that for a moment the stone room tilted all about her . |
| 8 | He laughed softly , the wind catching the low rumble of sound and tossing it around so that for a moment the very air seemed to be filled with it . |
| 9 | When the Constituent Assembly was dissolved after the 1917 Revolution , and the Bolsheviks ' Land Decree had stolen the main plank of the Socialist Revolutionaries ' platform , Siberian and Black-Earth peasants alike failed to give any further support to their still loyal party , despite the fact that for a period an SR-dominated Directory prevailed in eastern Russia . |
| 10 | It is assumed that for every action the operator has a purpose , the choice of the particular action at the particular time or point in the sequence is triggered by some other event , usually the successful completion of an action is indicated by a particular information presentation which also is noted on the chart . |
| 11 | It is estimated that for every pound a farmer spends on fertilizer on his fields , he can expect the rain to wash away a good fifty pence-worth . |
| 12 | Cecil recalls that for the tour the crew members were drawn from various squadrons from 5 Group . |
| 13 | The rejections , and the manner of the rejections , ensured that for the future the Church would take no notice of what the House of Commons thought about the way in which the Church of England worshipped . |
| 14 | As for the first , it should be remembered that for an Epicurean the worst pain is the groundless fear of what may happen after death , and that excessive unnatural desires are painful too . |
| 15 | In contrast to the traditional liberal view , they have suggested that during the revolution the masses acted upon the political leaders as much as they were acted upon by them . |
| 16 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |
| 17 | It was estimated that during the strike the workers had lost R45,000,000 in wages and damage to SATS property was believed to have cost R38,500,000 . |
| 18 | W.J. White confuses matters more by saying that ‘ the body of Elizabeth I was so poorly embalmed that during the funeral the coffin exploded , owing to the accumulation of the gaseous products of decomposition ’ . |
| 19 | These arguments tend to be supported by a detailed study of the impact of the war on East London ( Bush 1978 ) , and the more recent work of Waites ( 1987 ) in which he demonstrates that during the war the working class was able temporarily to reappropriate nationalist sentiment , articulating it with an assertive , class-conscious resistance to perceived excesses of capitalist exploitation . |
| 20 | One interesting aspect was that during the war the lines of debate were largely settled by civil servants ; the effective opposition was not a political party , but the Treasury and other departments who saw themselves threatened by a new , upstart Ministry of Town and Country Planning . |
| 21 | It is true that during the match the Linfield fans created trouble , but it was among themselves by throwing bottles at each other . |
| 22 | A letter sent to shareholders by the club 's legal adviser , Gordon Marshall , makes it clear that during the action a number of concessions had been obtained from the Deans family . |
| 23 | Suppose that the customer has expressly requested a visit for one purpose ( say , a possible purchase of kitchen fitments ) and that during the visit the trader talks the customer into buying something else , say a television . |
| 24 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 25 | A major criticism of the town-planning sections of the 1909 Act had been that the provisions were cumbersome and that as a consequence the operation of town planning schemes was slow and protracted . |
| 26 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 27 | It is probably more accurate to say that as a package the new employment system used traditional symbols to make the unfamiliar appear customary . |
| 28 | Not only does this increase costs and emphasise differences between richer and poorer children but it also contributes to a very inflexible and inefficient distribution of learning materials , since under this system ‘ shared ’ material is never bought — only class texts — and it is by no means uncommon to find that as a result a class may end up with only two or three books at its disposal , all in multiple copies . |
| 29 | He worries that as a result the net effect of propagating WABI will be damaging to the whole Unix business . |
| 30 | In contrast , BMP-2 inhibits limb growth , suggesting that as a result the AER may serve a hitherto unrecognized inhibitory function . |