Example sentences of "the [noun] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three members of the Supreme Court , Justices Brennan , Marshall and Blackmun , joined in a concurring opinion , rejecting the view of the majority that each forum had , in effect , complete freedom to decide when the Convention should control ; it was ‘ implausible ’ that that represented the intention of the drafters of the Convention . |
| 2 | Acer claims that its machine is unique , ‘ a first ’ , and is spearheading the direction that future technology will take . |
| 3 | Accordingly , their Lordships will humbly advise Her Majesty that the appeal should be allowed and the case remitted to the Court of Appeal with the direction that that court should quash the conviction of the defendant and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever course it considers proper in the interests of justice . |
| 4 | They lead us , also , in the direction that all science aims at , towards prediction . |
| 5 | A vector is parallel transported around an infinitesimal closed path and the change that this operation produces in the vector is calculated . |
| 6 | So great is the change that common sense , with these new anchored elements , is no longer , properly speaking , common sense : it is a social representation . |
| 7 | The support that that quotation received proves the point . |
| 8 | Because of this there has been scientific and practical interest in the facks that amonoantibiotic regimen comprising omeprazole and amoxicillin has been highly successful in eradicating H pylori in some pilot studies and has shown good results with regard to H pylori reinfection and the clinical course of peptic ulcer disease in the first year after treatment . |
| 9 | national account manager who 's specifically looks after and then go and see on a regular basis but call on them but invariably the accounts that those account managers deal with at erm will be split all round the country and will be controlled by our local sales executives in those areas |
| 10 | Miss Williamson , for the bank , submitted that agency only was insufficient to found liability ; there must also be notice on the part of the creditor that undue influence would or might have been exercised . |
| 11 | A good part of that is I think , a consequence of the delay that we 've had in implementing the wishes that this council has expressed before . |
| 12 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 13 | A 100-yard net can be properly set in less than five minutes — I could do that single-handed out of experience , but there is nothing in the technique that any novice need regard as prohibitive . |
| 14 | The fallacy that secondary impotence is to be expected as the male ages is probably more firmly entrenched in our culture than any other misapprehension . |
| 15 | In fact so much bullion was melted down and dispersed after the heist that this Christmas many women could be given jewellery made from the haul . |
| 16 | The rest of the money that British Rail has available should be spent on projects that are desperately needed to provide jam today , not tomorrow , for the commuters who are paying British Rail for the services it offers today . |
| 17 | The UN Transitional Authority , which is monitoring the progress of last October 's peace treaty , has warned the rival factions who control different parts of the country of the dangers that uncontrolled logging is posing to Cambodia 's development prospects . |
| 18 | And is n't it the case that real MOR — the stuff that sells , boys — has words that are anodyne too , that reinforce commonsense views of normality and ( human ) nature ? |
| 19 | Is it the case that all communication within a species should be treated as though it were part of selfish manipulation ? |
| 20 | ( It was accepted by both sides in the case that legal personality started at birth and not before ) . |
| 21 | It is certainly the case that normal mode inference is computationally more tractable . |
| 22 | It must either be the case that existing product markets will be serviced by fewer firms or that the former will expand to a level consistent with greater output levels ( Begg 1989 ) . |
| 23 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 24 | In the field of medicine , disorders are recognised according to their pattern of symptoms , since it is usually the case that similar symptom patterns are indicative of illnesses that have similar underlying causes . |
| 25 | It is certainly the case that sentencing practice to the present day has manifested an uneasy and uneven relationship between the two . |
| 26 | But it does seem to be the case that contemporary interest and the comments of historians have been concentrated in this way partly because of the shortage of public comment in the war on such issues . |
| 27 | It has never been the case that central Government would indemnify local authorities for expenditure when they are already given money through the revenue support grant to enable them to undertake their responsibilities , and that is not a way forward . |
| 28 | The ecumenical movement had become better established and although it would be an exaggeration to say that the major Protestant denominations were heavily committed to a ‘ Romeward trend ’ , it was clearly the case that many church leaders were seeking better relations with the Roman Church . |
| 29 | Is it really the case that ordinary mem bers of the public have a hatred of the police so virulent that it completely overbears normal reactions of shock , concern , and compassion ? |
| 30 | … naive social realism in a minor key … a potentially crippling form … it still remains the case that present-day discussion of British fiction is strongly influenced by a widely-held conviction that we are dealing with a literature in decline . |