Example sentences of "the [noun sg] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must also consider the opportunity that some occupations have for deliberately restricting access to the acquisition of the skills needed to do the job , thereby keeping down their distribution amongst the population , and enabling them to claim higher rewards in the market place . |
| 2 | Papinian notes that the wording of the trust does not admit the granddaughter , for her claim is restricted to the eventuality that both sons have died childless , which is not the case . |
| 3 | Oh God , the weakness that these walls have witnessed ! |
| 4 | Oh God , the weakness that these walls have witnessed ! |
| 5 | The second to seventh defendants have complained to the ombudsman that such valuations made in respect of further loans to them were carried out negligently by an employee of , in the case of the second and third defendants , the Halifax Building Society ; in the case of fourth and fifth defendants the Woolwich Building Society , and in the case of the sixth and seventh defendants the Leeds Permanent Building Society . |
| 6 | A simplistic analysis and synthesis of function is pursued and this tends to eliminate the interlocution , the din and the vigour , the extravagances and the variety that casual solutions might offer . |
| 7 | On receiving a letter from the Chairperson of the of the Hong Kong ‘ Branch ’ Standing Committee resolved that the Branch should be formally constituted with the provision that all members of the Branch were registered members of Convocation . |
| 8 | Ours is the only Government who have as a priority in our negotiations in Brussels the provision that all subsidies should be subject to some form of environmental assessment . |
| 9 | But , even so , thanks in part to the new legislation , in part to the administrative machinery of the Court of Wards , and in part to the provision that monastic lands be sold as tenancies-in-chief , the income from feudal dues rose from £4,434 in 1542 to an average of £7,700 per annum in the first three years of Edward VI . |
| 10 | And despite massive obstacles — the destruction caused by the First World War , the ravages of a civil war brought on by the support that foreign capitalists lent the savage counter-revolutionary efforts of Russia 's defeated classes , international isolation in the inter-war period , the appalling destruction wrought by Hitler 's rapacious invasion , the sustained hostility of the capitalist West — a socialist society was built . |
| 11 | I tell him Dynjandi — the local name for the waterfall that most visitors to Iceland would recognise as Fjallfoss — and he thinks a little . |
| 12 | Yesterday , Chalmers solicitor in Belfast , Ian Kerr , told The Scotsman that several matters , including an appeal against the conviction and moves for a re-trial , were under consideration . |
| 13 | Sociologists have also strongly questioned the fallacy that social problems are necessarily the product of ‘ bad ’ things . |
| 14 | The biggest conflicts looming over negotiations for a climate treaty , which begins this month , involve the money that rich countries must give to poor ones to enable them to develop with reduced CO 2 emissions . |
| 15 | Well I think it 's very important Robert because , I mean as the charter for the arts indicated look at the money that local authorities are spending upstairs to us and really you know we , we are |
| 16 | We shall begin to release some of the money that local authorities already have to stimulate construction and help the homeless . |
| 17 | While it is most certainly the case that black sportsmen try to present the image of being cool , calm and unaffected by tension , I doubt if there is any foundation for pointing to psychological states . |
| 18 | Similarly , within organisations is it not the case that certain groups consistently seem to be able to get their own way ? |
| 19 | But it is still the case that such countries have considerable difficulty in servicing their debts and the debt problem continues to be serious . |
| 20 | It may be the case that such schemes can not operate unless some people make a substantial sacrifice for them . |
| 21 | It perhaps ought to be pointed out here that an odd sentence is not necessarily meaningless , or incapable of conveying a message ; nor is it the case that such sentences never occur naturally . |
| 22 | Even if an agreed definition can be arrived at and some core features identified , it need not be the case that all forms of creative expression demand precisely the same set of mental operations or depend equally upon the same intellectual qualities . |
| 23 | It is sometimes the case that all persons within a group are employed by one service company set up specifically for providing services such as staff and property to all other group companies . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it is not necessarily the case that all assets will be shown in the accounts — eg goodwill , trade names . |
| 25 | It may be the case that adjacent maps use different projections or scales . |
| 26 | He was quite prepared to argue the case that savage practices might be integral to a culture : ‘ We may not like the notion of cannibalism or head-hunting , but that it formed part of a distinct and tenable form of culture in Melanesia is indisputable . ’ |
| 27 | It is also the case that demographic forces are looming ever larger in determining the way in which the geography of Britain is evolving . |
| 28 | But let us ask again : Is it the case that moral qualities can not be transferred ? |
| 29 | It may be the case that experienced instructors choose not to use the text pages . |
| 30 | It is not necessarily the case that similar patterns are being repeated in the quite different social context of the UK . |