Example sentences of "that [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would also draw attention to a particular consideration namely that between the outer boundary of the greenbelt in that corridor and the area of outstanding natural beauty of the Hills , there is very little distance . |
| 2 | We can say , then , that between the two codes involved — Baroque and rock — there are differences but also a relatively high syntactic correlation . |
| 3 | The only reliable difference in Table 1 is that between the pooled combining conditions , and versus with : by a chi-square test , . |
| 4 | Just as the line between semantics and pragmatics is fuzzy , so is that between the indexical and symbolic meanings of deictic terms . |
| 5 | In England the question of translation was complicated by the fact that between the Norman Conquest and the middle of the fourteenth century French was the language of the ruling class . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , Mori figures show that between the second half of 1991 and 9 April 1992 , the swing to the Tories was 9 per cent among Sun readers and 6 per cent among Star readers , compared to just 1 per cent among Mirror readers — evidence that the press influenced its readers in 1992 as in 1987 . |
| 7 | ( This xenia directly anticipates that between the early fourth-century Spartan king Agesilaus and the Persian satrap Mausolus , not to mention the fusion policies of Alexander : see p. 193 . ) |
| 8 | Er we , we 'll agree that between the three of us and make sure we have the exact wording , cos we would n't want three three subjects would we ? |
| 9 | Craig Monson builds on his edition of the vernacular service music to validate suspicions that between the Short Services by Tallis and Byrd , and between those by Byrd and Morley , there is a commonality of material and procedures both overt and covert that is not coincidental but deliberate , and possibly inspired by respect for and deference to a master by ( not a pupil , but ) a disciple . |
| 10 | In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | The analogous distinction in fiction would be that between the conscious and the reluctant narrator — the sad , the unwitting narrator . |
| 12 | We can conveniently begin with a widely drawn cosmological contrast , that between the secure realm of human habitation and activity , and the wild wasteland which surrounds and threatens it . |
| 13 | Until recently historians have believed that between the opposing parties there emerged around 1317 a so-called Middle Party , which had its beginning in a mission to Avignon in that year . |
| 14 | For the manager the critical relationship to understand is that between the potential ‘ drive ’ of an individual and the nature of needs . |
| 15 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 16 | Incomplete figures reveal that between the third ( 1762 ) and fourth ( 1782 ) censuses , the number of exiled serfs almost quadrupled from around 2,500 to over 10,000 in the Tobolsk , Kolyvan and Irkutsk provinces alone , that is , not counting those condemned to hard labour in the mines at Nerchinsk . |
| 17 | David Clews , of Pintail , says that about the only request for spares was due to a shaft breaking when a burr caught in clothing . |
| 18 | ‘ If you say that about the Irish , why did you marry my mother ? ’ |
| 19 | You might say that about the human animal really , might n't you ? |
| 20 | Could n't you say that about the British in Portugal ? |
| 21 | ‘ However , in due course a few , a very few indeed , intelligent teachers came to take a cool look at what was happening and they realised that for the vast majority of children the majority of our educational processes add about as much to the mental stature of our children as a diet of sawdust would add to their physical stature … . , |
| 22 | It seems that for the vast majority of dog owners , the very presence of canine company simply makes us feel good . |
| 23 | There is the irony : that , just when British Empirical Socialism had come to terms with the idea of a mixed economy , when it had accepted that for the indefinite future a public sector and a private sector would co-exist , when the tangle of objections which the Webbs had seen to the development of a privately-owned industrial co-operative sector had been so far cleared away as to open the path to a natural growth of industrial democracy by a means which , because it reconciled the rights and interests of labour with those of ownership , would have been sustainable , the Labour Government ignored or overlooked the opportunity . |
| 24 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 25 | The area under the peak corresponding to the actin cable is about 5 times that for the largest of the peaks corresponding to cortical actin elsewhere . |
| 26 | In fairness it should be added that for the female guests the question of rooms was as much an affair of space as of rank , since many arrived with anything up to 25 pieces of luggage , clear proof that at Compiègne , unlike Fontainebleau , style played a primary role . |
| 27 | Looking back towards his study of Cornford and Harrison , he approves of Johnson 's view that for the modern the distinctions between tragedy and comedy were superficial . |
| 28 | Roberts said it was ‘ pathetic ’ that for the second meeting with scientists in less than a week , the Tories had failed to send a spokesman . |
| 29 | The woodland shimmered , was still — a moment 's stifling summer silence , then the howl of the new season , a freezing wind bringing death and shedding so that for the second time in two minutes the land was drenched with fallen leaves and snow . |
| 30 | DUP councillor Sammy Wilson said that for the second year running he had been swamped with complaints from local people who feel they are living in ‘ eyesores ’ . |