Example sentences of "[that] the [adj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why reliance is more deserving of protection than expectations is that the former involves merely a resto-ration to the position once held , whereas the latter entails a transfer of wealth or the enrichment of one party at the expense of the other . |
| 2 | The difference between the fragmentation described by Braverman and that analysed by Stone is that the former came about in order to de-skill and control through Tayloristic practices , while the latter came about partly in order to create a range of jobs which could be formed into a job ladder . |
| 3 | The distinction between complex subjects and multi-word terms is that the former contain more than one unit concept . |
| 4 | Lyotard holds that we can best understand the nature of the unconscious through examining precisely how it is not structured like a language , that the most important criterion of demarcation of the unconscious from the ego lies in the ways that the former does not operate as does language . |
| 5 | The difference between most ARC members and professional chefs , male or female , is that the former have not been through ‘ the system ’ . |
| 6 | If we compare boys of 14 years of age who opt for science with other boys , we find that the former have very cut-and-dried views on many issues . |
| 7 | Bereavement and the sorrow it brings is the price most of us have to pay sooner or later for the joy of loving , and it is a bill that the elderly have usually had presented to them several times in their lives in one form or another . |
| 8 | Indeed , under the egregious President Reagan and the so-called ‘ supply-siders ’ , enormous and successful efforts were taken to ensure that the poor got even poorer . |
| 9 | But it was not in the way that the poor had always looked alike — it was not , that is , because they were shabby , shoeless and grubby as moles — but because the gangs wished to look alike , and had adopted a uniform dress-style . |
| 10 | It is undoubtedly the case that poverty and bad housing conditions are still very much in evidence , that the poor have alarmingly inadequate provision of health care and educational opportunity and that homelessness is a very real threat . |
| 11 | In 1839 , the year of the Chartist petition to Parliament ( itself precipitated by the Act ) , Disraeli 's delinquent Lord Marney is pulling down as many of his cottages as possible so that the poor do not become a charge upon his parish . |
| 12 | I E th there , there is no guarantee within the May the fourth directive that , that the poor do significantly a as a group all do well because th th they , they , they , there 's nothing to guarantee that they all share properly in the fruits of struggle . |
| 13 | He reminded people that the Japanese had not yet been defeated , but only people like Peggy Burns , whose son was a Japanese prisoner of war , dwelt on that fact . |
| 14 | But the very first visitors to Japan assumed , from the local socks , that the Japanese had only two toes . |
| 15 | It is fashionable among some general business academics to attack DCF by stating that the Japanese do not get caught up in ‘ DCF number games ’ but place more emphasis on corporate discussion and the generation of a consensus about whether the development being considered should go ahead or not . |
| 16 | There is a danger of assuming that the Japanese have not rejected the contemporary institutions of collectivism because they are accepted as ideal . |
| 17 | Adjusting the output of existing products and rapidly expanding the share of new ones , requires flexibility in the labour market and it is here that the Japanese have even bigger advantages . |
| 18 | That the rich did not escape the scourge is evident at Crich in Derbyshire when , in October 1349 , William de Wakebridge added a small chantry chapel to the parish church in memory of his wife , his father , his two sisters and three brothers , all of whom had died of the plague in the summer of that year . |
| 19 | They know that the rich did very nicely during the Thatcher years and believe it is they not the poor who should make any sacrifices necessary to get the country out of recession . |
| 20 | A further disincentive — although Mr Lawrence did not see it that way — was that the Prudential had never previously had a finance director , let alone strict internal financial controls . |
| 21 | On Oct. 18 the Fair Trade Commission launched an investigation into allegations that the four had also violated anti-monopoly laws by offering unduly large profits to some clients . |
| 22 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 23 | A design engineer might well require an appreciation of transmission line theory to ensure that the two connect together without data corruption . |
| 24 | He finds , not surprisingly , that the two based mainly on economic indicators tend to rank the United States very high ( first and second ) , while the other two , more widely based , classifications rank it lower ( sixth and twentyfourth ) . |
| 25 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 26 | From some remarks in Sir Alfred Ayer 's autobiography ( Part of my Life Vol. 1 , 1978 ) , it seems that the two met infrequently and perhaps did not altogether get on . |
| 27 | It would , for example , be perfectly feasible , as a matter of constitutional engineering , to bring all the nationalised industries under the umbrella of a single authority whilst at the same time so restricting the range of matters and extending the area of an agency of horizontal devolution that the two became almost indistinguishable . |
| 28 | The State prosector had demanded heavier sentences but the court judged that the two had not carried out their plan but had only discussed it . |
| 29 | Prior Robert , still stonily silent and shocked out of his normal studied dignity , led away his shattered clerk to the second of the two penitentiary cells ; and it was the first time , as far as Cadfael could recall , that the two had ever been occupied at the same time . |
| 30 | Whilst there is wide agreement that investment is a necessary condition of economic growth and that within fairly wide margins higher levels of performance require higher levels of investment , the direction of this relationship can not be conclusively demonstrated ; it may well be the case that the two occur together . |