Example sentences of "that [prep] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways , these additional protocols reinforced the impression that for France the EDC was designed as a guarantee for itself against possible German aggression as much as it was to be an anti-Soviet organisation . |
| 2 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 3 | This hardly looks the same principle , but the connection lies in the fact that for Kant the sense in which every person is an end is that each is a rational agent who , as such , should be conceived as potentially cooperating with me in settling upon and living by universal principles of behaviour taken as binding on all rational agents . |
| 4 | To move from ‘ art ’ to ‘ craft ’ is rather plainly a further contraction , or diminution : and it will be radically misunderstood unless we remember that for Pound the level of craftsmanship ( not just in letters , but in supposedly humbler trades also ) is a register , a thermometer-reading , of the good or ill health of a period or of a society . |
| 5 | It is clear that for Locke the perception model of faith created an unsatisfactory barrier between those with faith and those without . |
| 6 | Again , contra Lawrence , it is obvious that for Eliot the idea that modern western society should adopt savage customs is seen as ludicrous and reprehensible , since he believed that not even the lowest of civilized people could adapt themselves to such society without deteriorating and frequently also corrupting the natives . |
| 7 | Adorno argues that with Beethoven the potential of music is so raised that older assumptions are shattered . |
| 8 | In Pagett ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 279 ( CA ) , where a girl was used as a shield by the accused ( see Chapter 2 ) , the court did not deal with the point that under Dalby the act had to be directed at the victim . |
| 9 | The will of King Eadred ( 946 – 55 ) left £1,600 so that his people could redeem themselves from famine or a heathen army , Cnut defeated thirty ships of pirates early in his reign , and Domesday Book says that under Edward the Confessor ( 1042 – 66 ) the hidage ( broadly , tax ) assessment of Fareham in Hampshire was reduced " on account of the Vikings , because it is on the sea " . |
| 10 | At Speech Day in that year the Headmaster was able to announce that from September the School would be fully co-educational , in fulfilment of the plan announced five years earlier . |
| 11 | In terms of accidents , it appears that within Woonerven the number involving injury has been reduced by about 50 per cent . |
| 12 | ) . These legends prove at least that in Palestine the transition from the Persian to the Macedonian rule had been smooth . |
| 13 | These were the men and women who no doubt complained that in Nice the cost of unfurnished houses had risen between 1858 and 1876 from £64 to £100 per year , and that of women servants from £8–10 to a scandalous £24–30 a year . |
| 14 | At the first , there was not much co-operation , but I am glad to say that in October the association announced a scheme similar to that which my hon. Friend suggested — to offer discounts to certain car owners who have security devices fitted when the car is being made in the factory . |
| 15 | I ask if they have heard that in Bolivia the government , spurred on by the IMF , made thousands of miners redundant to make their economy ‘ viable ’ . |
| 16 | It is too often forgotten — this is another dimension — that in Britain the age at which children start school is comparatively young . |
| 17 | I was told that in Britain the weather has to be really dire before a mountain rescue search is called off . |
| 18 | It is true that in Britain the matter is now regulated by statute and to that extent it has been flushed into the open . |
| 19 | It is thought that in January the Bank sold pounds nine months forward when it was engaged in the task of restraining the pound 's advance . |
| 20 | He observed that in Lawrence the House did not have to consider the precise meaning of ‘ appropriation ’ in section 3(1) and continued [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 , 331–333 : |
| 21 | Boulestin had found , like so many before and since , that in England the price of perfection is too high . |
| 22 | Odd-Knut is much amused by all this talk , and tells us that in Greenland the sledge dogs will eat it if they can get at it . |
| 23 | ‘ In my translation of the ‘ Nightingale ’ fairy tale , the word ‘ Chinaman ’ has been deleted from my original text , which read : ‘ I suppose you know that in China the emperor 's a Chinaman … |
| 24 | What I am trying to argue is that in Germany the contradiction between bourgeoisie and civil society — as exemplified above in the contradiction of state and cultural modernism — was much much sharper than elsewhere . |
| 25 | The report pointed out that in Germany the role of channelling knowledge and technology from HE to industry is fulfilled in part by the Fraunhofer institutes , bridging the divide between the aspirations of academia and industry . |
| 26 | I readily acknowledge that in Scotland the Crown has no direct interest in sentence in as much as it does n't , in contrast with Russia or America , request the court to impose a specific sentence . |
| 27 | It should be noted in passing that in Scotland the change had been made in 1599/60 . |
| 28 | The official justification is that in Bali the company could work with local performers and learn to ‘ shift our centres of gravity away from the head , down into the centres of our bodies ’ . |
| 29 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 30 | But the Baptism of Jesus did not merely see the end of the long silence , and God 's declaration that in Jesus the role of the Servant and the Son had converged : the age-long drought of the Holy Spirit was ended too . |