Example sentences of "of [noun sg] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a little the worse for drink and there had been an argument over a bottle of whisky that Drew had in his pocket . |
| 2 | It was , therefore , completely against the run of play that Clydebank scored seconds before the break . |
| 3 | This is not because it can be proved one way or the other that either or neither version is the type of play that Marlowe would have written . |
| 4 | There 's no expression of support that Ryedale should be the recipient of a new settlement as yet ? |
| 5 | The pace of change that arms control has to match in Eastern Europe can not be predicted , but it shows every sign of moving far faster than Nato can respond . |
| 6 | Well , ladies and gentlemen , I think you 'll agree that some of John Maynard-Smith 's early engineering training showed through , as it were , in reverse order , if that 's not too heretical a statement to make in this context , in the gentle good natured demolition job that he did on the main current critical attacks on Darwin 's mechanism , and particularly on the rhythms of change that Darwin adumbrated within his own time scale . |
| 7 | And there will be specific discussions in later chapters concerning the different kinds of change that teachers are commonly involved with : change in classroom practice , change in school policy and change that is being imposed from outside the school . |
| 8 | Epilepsy does occur in some cases as a symptom of brain damage , but for it to be classified alongside psychosis , mental retardation and other disorders , without qualification , only serves to reinforce the stigma of insanity that health organisations worldwide are trying to eradicate . |
| 9 | His brow furrows , the grooves of skin that ridge his forehead a natural thing he was born with . |
| 10 | Putting on a Show The Windows aficionado will be well pleased with the look and feel of Presentations 2.0 — it maintains that 3D kind of look that Windows 3.1 is so good at , to the point where you might just be persuaded that you 're actually running a Windows application full screen . |
| 11 | A tiny flame of hope that Luce had never even acknowledged flickered and died as his words , and the facts behind them , hammered themselves into her brain . |
| 12 | The longer-term recovering member is able to give the newcomer a sense of identification that someone really does understand the problem from the inside and also a sense of hope that recovery is possible . |
| 13 | The news gave a glimmer of hope that Michael Wainwright , 42 , and Paul Ride , 33 , might get an early release . |
| 14 | She represents the turbulence that Serena is unable to eliminate from her life , the residue of chaos that Serena can not refashion to fit her world . |
| 15 | Even more importantly though , the feeling of freedom that travelling gave Zeng had such a profound effect on him that returning to normal life with his work unit seemed practically unthinkable . |
| 16 | The laugh acknowledged , even admiringly , some sort of necessity that Cedric , poor fool , could not begin to understand . |
| 17 | Just a short while ago she had thought that nothing could increase the feeling of dread that Andrew had left behind him in the drawing-room . |
| 18 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
| 19 | Technically , they did not qualify for the defence of provocation , but their cases are heart-rending and should evoke a change in attitude towards the type of defence that women in those circumstances can claim . |
| 20 | It is clear to the House from that sort of defence that Wolverhampton , even by the standards of Labour councils , is a pretty dreadful education authority , with the fifth highest overheads in England . |
| 21 | There was also disappointment that no immediate action had followed such strong words , and lack of comprehension that Hitler needed any further powers to be granted . |
| 22 | The results in children are similar to those in normal adults ( test of hypothesis that groups are different , t =1.32 , p=0.27 ) but significantly different from those in achlorhydric adults ( t =2.084 , p=0.046 ) . |
| 23 | And that 's the sort of ethos that T N T's got . |
| 24 | It was evidently in this spirit of worry that President Mitterrand urged the French people to ‘ have confidence in themselves ’ as German unification came onto the agenda . |
| 25 | It has been a particular source of worry that sales of the magazine have been so low ; in fact on the current issue we made a considerable loss which as a small Society is very difficult to cover . |
| 26 | ( 1980 ) , produced little evidence that there really is a substantial difference between homes of different social classes in the quality of interaction that children experience with their parents . |
| 27 | Frude starts the second section , ‘ Encountering the inanimate ’ , by examining the various types of interaction that people and computers can have . |
| 28 | It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him . |
| 29 | The Conservative vote is an act of faith that springs from the fear of something worse . |
| 30 | Ever since Lord Bryce wrote his seminal work in the 1950s on the decline of the legislature in modern democracies , it has become a casual article of faith that parliaments , including Westminster , have become ever more supine in the face of all-powerful governments . |