Example sentences of "the [noun] that [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 None the less , it remains the case that academics ' public debate over academic freedom is grounded in their wish to defend their rights — as they see it — to conduct their own activities in the way they see fit .
2 Smith , though , is of the opinion that Rangers ' problems , while substantial , are better able to be handled now than they would have been five years ago .
3 The strike record in the immediate pre-war years is difficult to reconcile with the notion that workers ' protest was becoming less intense .
4 But he rejects the criticism that Goldsmiths ' , under his direction , has over-emphasised theory at the expense of practice .
5 This is despite the acknowledgement that carers ' issues transcend health and social care boundaries .
6 Is the HMI 's interpretation , resting as it does on the claim that teachers ' possession of knowledge and expertise provides the basis for their classroom confidence , the only possible one ?
7 If the ratio is too low , there will be the risk that customers ' demands may not be able to be met : this would cause a crisis of confidence and Possible closure .
8 Note : We have deliberately avoided the idea that owners ' equity relates to the owners ' investment in the business as with the historic cost model this is fraught with obvious difficulties .
9 From later Marxists comes the idea that individuals ' daily lives are caught up in quite distinct local forms of social relation .
10 The widely publicised work of Basil Bernstein had made a large public at least aware of the possibility that pupils ' response to the process of education might be limited by their habitual uses of the mother tongue .
11 However this study , and the many others which followed it , were criticised on the grounds that subjects ' reporting of the position of a click might not be a perceptual effect , but the result of memory or response bias .
12 In the opinion of Alan Malcolm , KPMG 's corporate finance partner in Glasgow , this is largely due to the fact that vendors ' price expectations still greatly exceed what managements are prepared to pay and what banks and institutions are prepared to back .
13 I am referring , of course , to the fact that birds ' knees apparently bend in the opposite direction to ours — they appear to lift their legs backwards in contrast to our forward movement ( Figure 5 ) .
14 This may in part be due to the similarity of styles used in much of the genre fiction , and the fact that readers ' expectations in terms of style are therefore rarely disappointed .
15 Overall , the view that blacks ' success in certain sports is not chiselled out of hard work , determination and perseverance , but out of a somewhat intangible capacity called ‘ natural ability ’ holds sway amongst coaches , managers and even amongst athletes themselves .
16 At the end of her life Rosa Luxembourg called for the abolishment of trade unions and promoted the view that workers ' councils were essential organisations in the establishment of socialism .
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