Example sentences of "that [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | No one wants to shoot birds , but we must balance the survival of an entire species against that of a few individuals |
| 32 | ‘ Nevertheless , the atmosphere today compared to that of a few weeks ago is more conducive to a satisfactory settlement , ’ concluded Donald . |
| 33 | Its frenzied rejection was very different to that of the many projects listed in the Police Foundation or Home Office Registers of Research mentioned above , most of which are simply ignored and never ever receive any review . |
| 34 | This evidence matches that of the many handbooks of canonical , theological , and liturgical material compiled by ( or for ) bishops , which shows their determination to teach their flocks . |
| 35 | In this respect his art and that of the New Sculptors differed little from the earlier romantic neo-classicism of a sculptor like , whose work would nevertheless have been decried by the same practitioners as cold and outmoded . |
| 36 | The most easily recognisable training need is that of the new recruits . |
| 37 | The distribution of team diagnoses after assessment was similar to that of the new referrals as a whole ( table I ) . |
| 38 | An important issue when examining urban employment structures is that of the varying performances of different sectors of employment . |
| 39 | Within that , the most remarkable expansion is that of the Japanese banks . |
| 40 | James 's role , in fact , was not unlike that of the attacking centre-halves of the pre-1925 era . |
| 41 | He said the public grief and that of the bereaved families has been enormous . |
| 42 | Cowan suggests that the strength of the excitatory interactions increases relative to that of the inhibitory interactions under the influence of the drug . |
| 43 | The North American stamp is upon it all , giving the line a flavour completely different to that of the Chilean systems … |
| 44 | One element — that of the private mines — has not been mentioned this evening . |
| 45 | The predicament of peasants on state lands which had not been handed over to private landowners was marginally easier , but did not differ fundamentally from that of the private serfs . |
| 46 | One can not compare exactly the customs accounts from the two ports , because those for London ending in 1460 conclude at the end of July instead of the normal date of Michaelmas , so the second period employed in the comparison is that of the eleven years 1450–61 . |
| 47 | She found that of the 16 libraries which retained archive files of statistics , the following principal uses were recorded : monitoring book use for duplication of titles ( 10 libraries ) ; fund allocation ( 5 ) ; monitoring book use for change of loan status of books ( 5 ) ; and for relegation purposes ( 5 ) ; examination of interdisciplinary use of stock ( 3 ) ; monitoring loans for possible changes in loan regulations ( 2 ) . |
| 48 | It is a very different approach from that of the ancient Egyptians . |
| 49 | In this sense , much of the artwork is as abstract , generalized and impersonal as that of the ancient Egyptians . |
| 50 | For the mid-nineteenth-century observer all history coexisted at the same time , except for that of the ancient civilisations and empires such as classical antiquity , which had been ( literally ) buried , awaiting the spades of H. Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) in Troy and Mycenae or Flinders Petrie ( 1853–1942 ) in Egypt . |
| 51 | ( 1986 ) , for example , found that of the 450 children coming into care in five local authorities in England and Wales , residential care accounted for 51 per cent of all admissions ( p. 80 ) . |
| 52 | Interestingly , the distribution of variants in Lurgan is more similar to that of the inner-city areas than that of the outer areas ( a pattern that applies also to other vowel and consonant variables ) . |
| 53 | This therefore means that of the 4,339 hectares cultivated in Champagne 's top villages , only 4,309 hold the rank of grand cru . |
| 54 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 55 | He said that of the nine panes at the SECC which had shattered since its construction in 1985 , only a couple had actually resulted in falling glass . |
| 56 | It is a quite different power from that of the kicking techniques . |
| 57 | Once this was done he set about his task , quite happy to be in no other company that that of the two greys . |
| 58 | A desirable state is that of the two energies in balance , and the best site is located where there is a change from landscape expressing one type of energy to landscape expressing the other . |
| 59 | In a study of 6000 children aged 10–12 , ‘ children who approved of cigarette advertising were twice as likely to become smokers as children who disapproved ’ with the smoking behaviour of those who were ambivalent about advertising falling between that of the two groups … |
| 60 | Their coupling had been as quick and inevitable as that of the two horses , and although Cora-Beth had cried out once in momentary pain , she had professed herself entirely happy and not in the least guilt-ridden by their union . |