Example sentences of "[that] [adv] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice that effectively the spectrum of the unit step function has been derived by multiplying it by a factor which makes the Fourier integral converge . |
| 2 | He suggests therefore that perhaps the return of a third successive Conservative administration might not lead to a widening of social class inequalities . |
| 3 | This planted the seed in his mind that perhaps the work of a record producer could be interesting . |
| 4 | Whilst the venue on this occasion was central and it was not the first time the A.G.M. had been held on a Friday evening , the Committee appreciates that perhaps the idea of holding the Meeting on the evening before the Dinner Dance to enable those travelling to London to attend both events was not a good one . |
| 5 | My own view is that perhaps the concept of normality is inappropriate here , since doubtless much of the hostility and prejudice which exists towards homosexuality is a product of this notion . |
| 6 | Clear ( 1990 ) suggests that perhaps the size of a corpus is more significant than its composition although the two parameters are inter-dependent . |
| 7 | It stated that he had seen an advertisement in the papers asking for designs for the redevelopment of the whole area between Downing Street and Great George Street , yet Hall knew the Cabinet had decided against this large scheme and that only the purchase of the Fludyer Street area would be completed . |
| 8 | Optimistic courtiers suggest that only the marriage of the Queen 's youngest son , Prince Edward , to a suitable bride could redeem the popularity of the Monarchy . |
| 9 | The front leg also bends at the knee , with the heel raised from the ground so that only the ball of the foot touches the floor ( a sort of tip-toe position ) . |
| 10 | The conclusion is supported by a Research Ministry strategy paper , which argues that only the construction of eight new 1,300MW nuclear power stations in conjunction with the increased use of coal/gas combination technology will enable Germany to achieve the desired reduction . |
| 11 | Of course , to use such an argument to support vitalism would be specious : it is a nonsense to believe that only the presence of a ‘ vital principle ’ can confer life . |
| 12 | Where a company 's Articles of Association state that only the Board of Directors can grant special remuneration to a director , a committee of the Board does not have authority to pay a special fee to one of its members . |
| 13 | In Britain both Conservative and Labour cabinets insisted that only the threat of early use of nuclear weapons could stop a major Soviet offensive . |
| 14 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is in such a bad way that only the determination of the French state keeps it alive , and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is not much healthier . |
| 15 | No doubt Joyce felt a certain satisfaction in this small triumph over the petty snobbery of British civil servants , who considered that only the word of a professional gentleman could be relied upon . |
| 16 | In Euripidean drama , we see the results of " aesthetic Socratism " , the outlook that makes intelligibility a prerequisite of beauty — a counterpart to Socrates ' notion that only the man of knowledge can be virtuous . |
| 17 | Note that only the ordering of the numbers is significant , not their actual magnitudes . |
| 18 | Milner implies that only the development of modern ( structuralist ) linguistics has made this possible , and certainly the work of Hockett ( 1977 ) , Milner himself , Nash ( 1985 ) and now Chiaro ( who draws quite heavily on Hockett ) provides detailed linguistic and structural analyses of the different kinds of word- and sound-play that are exploited in jokes . |
| 19 | Although a survey of Russia 's dealings with central Asia in the first half of the nineteenth century concludes that " Bukhara , Khiva , and Kokand were not primary objects of interest " , the work as a whole provides massive evidence for the view that only the problem of traversing Kazakhstan prevented the khanates from coming to the top of the imperial agenda . |
| 20 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 21 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 22 | Deep down , though , Eubank suspects that only the loss of his bitter enemy 's title during his next three fights could galvanise him into a repeat of their epic of two years ago — and commercially that would devalue the rematch . |
| 23 | After all Koresh 's apocalyptic vision , his talk of the seven seals that only the lamb of God can unlock , sounded like refinements of what they already believed . |
| 24 | ( The cocktail stick is used to ensure that only the amount of colour needed is applied — it is easy to overdo it . |
| 25 | Indeed , there is much evidence to suggest that many collocations found in natural text are domain-independent , and that only the analysis of a sufficiently large and general corpus will provide coverage of such structures . |
| 26 | It is worth remembering that only the format of the evening meal will change dramatically . |
| 27 | ‘ Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media , I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts . |
| 28 | It is at this stage that suddenly the chorus of advice dies away and the armies of theoreticians depart . |
| 29 | In the second edition Dewey announced that henceforth the structure of the scheme would not be fundamentally changed . |
| 30 | At the beginning of this year the Louvre became an établissement public administratif , which means that henceforth the director of the museum will also be solely responsible for the whole establishment , which will also have greater financial autonomy . |