Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is suggested that views diverge on the central question of the rights of parents to custody and control of their children in relation to the right of the state ( acting through courts and social work agencies ) to intervene in the parent-child relationship , to remove children from their parents , to allocate their care and control to other parties , and to determine their subsequent upbringing . |
| 2 | Earlier we spoke of the selective interests that disciplines take in the world . |
| 3 | It is certainly true that states have in the past used methods and means of warfare not outlawed by any specific prohibition although running counter to general principles , and they have sought to justify this by reference either to the principle of reprisal or that of military effectiveness . |
| 4 | That is , it is possible to use the capital asset pricing model ( CAPM ) to determine the rate of return that shareholders require on the whole corporate group , or from specific divisions or individual projects . |
| 5 | Once new laws have been passed , workplace action is needed to ensure that employers comply with the new legislation . |
| 6 | The contenders for a tribe 's leadership come from the group of especially large Orcs known as Big'uns — the closest that Orcs get to a ruling class . |
| 7 | The Earth , in fact , has enormous ‘ sinks ’ for both oxygen and carbon , and it is when these become full that excesses accumulate in the atmosphere . |
| 8 | the requirement that returns conform to a normal distribution ; |
| 9 | Although this sounds silly , it happens quite often that contestants act with no regard at all for their own safety . |
| 10 | Next er thing we need to describe is that planets move round the sun do n't we ? |
| 11 | Because tasks in organisations are almost always interdependent , it is essential that personnel act in a calculable and predictable manner . |
| 12 | There is a growing body of research which shows that cultures differ in the way conversations and other forms of spoken discourse are conducted . |
| 13 | The most promising such theory is the theory of ‘ mental models ’ , whose crucial insight is that readers extract from a text a ‘ model ’ of the situation in the ‘ real or imaginary ) world that the text is about . |
| 14 | It is clear from these brief analyses that the nature and scope of the context that is constructed for each individual poem does not simply depend on the choice of deictic expressions in the text , but rather results from the combined effect of a wide range of variables , including the content of the text as a whole , and the attitudes and experiences that readers bring to the text or develop during reading . |
| 15 | It is beyond doubt , he argues , and most psychologists and ethologists would agree , ‘ that animals act for the sake of goals , and that they may be conscious of their goals , in the quite literal sense that they may see or smell what they are after ’ ( 1975 : 19 ) . |
| 16 | Not only must we limit the scope of animal goals but we must also limit the sense of the claim that animals act for the sake of goals . |
| 17 | As the Prime Minister has now had time to appreciate the significance that Scots attach to the phrase ’ taking stock ’ , will he elaborate on what that means in the Scottish constitutional set-up ? |
| 18 | Jezrael could n't even lift her head to look because he 'd told her that eyes shine in the darkness ; as well light a beacon . |
| 19 | Cognitive–Behavioural treatments have been the most extensively evaluated interventions of all the psychotherapeutic schools in relation to these disorders and they do indicate that clients benefit in the short term , but little is known about the maintenance of change in the long term . |
| 20 | I want to be beautiful , so stunning that heads turn in the street , boys fall over themselves to ask me out , and everyone admires me . |
| 21 | The manner in which these principles of linguistic organisation are involved in the real-time learning of languages — whether it is in the case of children learning their native languages , or adults learning second languages — raises many important questions about the way that innate principles and actual experience of language interact to produce the competence that speakers have in the languages they speak . |
| 22 | The City Council 's particularly concerned about the congestion that touts cause on the pavement in St Aldate 's , which it claims is a nuisance and could be dangerous . |
| 23 | Not only is this desirable as a means of restricting monetary growth , but , if it involves cutting government expenditure ( as opposed to increasing taxes ) , it will also increase the size of the private sector relative to the public sector and it is the private sector that monetarists see as the main source of long-term growth in output and employment . |
| 24 | The dreams that subjects report in the laboratory tend to be mundane , and lack the bizarre quality of dreams reported in the morning . |
| 25 | Governors need to know that savings remain with the school and that losses are immediately deducted from the next year 's budget total ; they must hold it important to understand the whole budget and grasp the concept of virement . |
| 26 | These and other observations have led to the obvious speculation that plumes arise at the core-mantle boundary . |
| 27 | The association between the daughter 's rejection and the mother 's disability appears to afford at least circumstantial evidence that relationships deteriorate as a consequence of the burdens of tending . |
| 28 | The determinant selection hypothesis , that associations result from the ability of a particular HLA type to present a critical antigenic peptide , has been difficult to investigate because , for most disease associations , the relevant antigen is unknown . |
| 29 | A footpath system runs around the island and we are anxious that visitors stick to the pathways in order to preserve the fragile environment in which the birds live . |
| 30 | In my experience it 's always , it 's higher than low pay , and I do n't believe that companies go to an area because the payment of wages is low if everything else is not favourable to them as well , in fact low pay in itself does not attract , and conversely , I do n't think the thought 's an impossibility , because I 've talked to potential inward investors , and jokingly , sort of teased them and if you get enough companies coming into Shropshire , then inevitably wages will go up , and they 're intelligent people , and they realize it , and they not the magic ball , and of course when local shopkeepers are concerned about their businesses , then the amount of wages that are available to spend has an effect on your local small company . |