Example sentences of "that [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The household of the skilled potter became in income terms the equal of that of the lower clergy .
2 As other forms of control and influence , such as that of the lower clergy , diminished , the people were given a space in which to make their own culture .
3 Pre-Darwinist concepts of comparative natural history were used to show certain fundamental connections between man 's physical organization and that of the lower mammals .
4 If , however , we do apply anthropological and linguistic perspectives to this recent work on the consequences of literacy , as I claim we must despite its claim to protection from them , then that work in fact turns out to be as biased as that of the earlier phases .
5 It may be too that in the lower regions of society women were freer to find at least part-time employment : the distaff provided occupation for almost all , and even if the invention of the spinning wheel may have reduced the opportunities for some , it enormously increased those of others .
6 Northern Europe eventually established a Gothic style which was different from that in the warmer countries south of the Alps and the Pyrenees .
7 By what criteria do we judge that our conditioning in this century accords with the Divine will but that in the earlier generations does not ? ’
8 All this may seem obvious , but in fact it had not worked out like that in the earlier days of the cutters as I recall .
9 She will also want to welcome the fact given in answer to the hon. Member for Peckham ( Ms. Harman ) that the percentage improvement among the poorest groups — what the sociologists call groups 4 and 5 — has been greater than that among the higher groups , so the gap is therefore narrowing .
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