Example sentences of "[that] [noun sg] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post-structuralist critics will deny that literature possesses the organic unity to which the New Critics attached so much weight . |
| 2 | is quite stable in some solvents , while Raman spectroscopy on the monoanion , ( which shows how the negatively-charged football structure vibrates ) , demonstrates that reduction disturbs the orderly bonding and symmetry of C60 . |
| 3 | Briefly , the principle states that physics appears the same to any observer in free fall whatever the magnitude of the gravitational field . |
| 4 | At present , sewage works must ensure that effluent meets the required standards of cleanliness for 95 percent of any 12 month period . |
| 5 | I certainly would not want to attempt a summary of the route we have taken all the way from the mind-body problem to children trying to win chocolates ; but I do need to make some concluding comments to justify the bold claim in the first paragraph that constructivism makes the mind-body problem less intractable . |
| 6 | Legislation requires the authorities to ensure that industry uses the best available techniques not entailing excessive cost ( BATNEEC ) to abate pollution . |
| 7 | A third objection to the confessional approach is that it assumes that religion provides the adequate answer to the dilemmas facing society . |
| 8 | The protestant Christian has too quickly jumped to the conclusion that Catholicism regards the Holy Communion service as a work of salvation whereby the priest offers afresh the offering of Christ and pleads for salvation . |
| 9 | All Russians believe that garlic cures the common cold . |
| 10 | Irigaray 's work is nuanced in ways oft en ignored not only by her critics but by those who appropriate it , especially those who consider her to have demonstrated that homosexuality represents the true nature of patriarchy ; who believes that , as a sexual practice between the same , homosexuality becomes indicative of patriarchy 's fundamental refusal or fear of difference . |
| 11 | He disputed Lenin 's contention that imperialism constitutes the last stage of capitalism , arguing that in Latin America it represented only the first stage . |
| 12 | Given the growing acceptance of the view that education represents the basic condition for future economic success , partnerships are surely well placed within their localities to begin the task of building the structures and confidence necessary to establish education investment banks or funds where there is a professional approach given to venture capital for educational development . |
| 13 | We believe that franchising provides the best way of achieving that . |
| 14 | In the sense that apple has the same relationship to fruit as dog has to animal ( i.e.' — is an immediate taxonym of — ' — see chapter 6 for the meaning of taxonym ) , that relation is of the sort known as ‘ many-to-one ’ . |
| 15 | One of these is connected with the fact that gravity affects the causal structure of space-time ; that is , gravity determines which events can be causally related to one another . |
| 16 | Carol McMillan , in Women , Reason and Nature ( 1982 ) , argues that feminism makes the same mistake as anti-feminism in its excessive belief in rationality and empiricism , and consequently undervalues emotion , intuition and the private sphere . |
| 17 | Later in the season when gooseberries are over , delicious fools can be made with uncooked strawberries ; a mixture of raspberries and redcurrants , also uncooked ; and blackberries , cooked as for gooseberries ; but in this case I think that cream spoils the rich colour of the fruit and should be offered separately . |
| 18 | Stories abound of the Phoenix Guard arriving at the very instant that the council decides upon a new king or at the moment that life leaves the old king , lending weight to the legends about the Chamber of Days . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Garscadden says that banding protects the rich and the hon. Member for Dagenham says that the Government are clobbering the rich , and still we do not know . |
| 20 | First , it assumes that pragmatism provides the best explanation of how judges actually decide cases . |
| 21 | These range from the notion that creativeness reflects the same warring psychological tendencies that are responsible for insanity to the intriguing , though question-begging , idea that some mad people are simply labelled as geniuses because of their apparently mystical and divinely inspired qualities of thought . |
| 22 | For though when I say Gold is a metal , I say by implication that if there be any other metals it must resemble them , yet if there were no other metals I might still assert the proposition with the same meaning as at present , namely , that gold has the various properties implied in the word metal … |
| 23 | The closest he comes to it is , I think , in the passage quoted earlier in which he says that ‘ though when I say Gold is a metal , I say by implication that if there be any other metals it must resemble them , yet if there were no other metals I might still assert the proposition with the same meaning as at present , namely that gold has the various properties implied in the word metal ’ . |
| 24 | Our study does not , therefore , offer an explanation for the recent observations of Hu et al , who found that phosphate inhibits the protective effect of dietary calcium on colonic proliferation in rats . |
| 25 | Let us make the conservative assumption that CD-X follows the same trend but that by mid-decade it achieves a penetration of about 25 per cent of CD-A , rising to 60 per cent of CD-A by the year 2000 ( obviously much depends on when CD-X appears ! ) . |
| 26 | But we are studying substantive interpretations of legal practice , not semantic theories , and our present interest in conventionalism lies in its negative claim that convention exhausts the intrinsic normative power of past decisions . |
| 27 | The role of maintenance in a production planning and control system is to so organize maintenance activities that production has the optimum availability of plant and machinery in the conduct of its operations , and that , if an unexpected breakdown occurs , it will be dealt with in the minimum possible time . |
| 28 | Note that LIFESPAN uses the last occurrence of any parameter defined more than once . |