Example sentences of "that [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I 've done that for many a year |
| 2 | 2 That for such an Education , the only basis possible is English . |
| 3 | She wanted Boy to know that for all the book 's nine hundred and forty-eight pages the author had seen fit to devote only one ambiguous and insignificant paragraph to the fact that this great man had lived forty-one years of his public life accompanied everywhere by a handsome and dedicated working-class servant . |
| 4 | ‘ They are never children , ’ he answered , ‘ that let themselves be photographed like that for all the world to see . ’ |
| 5 | But now , at last , I am beginning to see that for all the ‘ believed failures ’ of the past , I have done my best . |
| 6 | though , is that for all the skill of the anti-missile scientists , we can not underestimate the inventiveness of the missile makers . |
| 7 | He had a horse and cart and he 'd go to Norwich and bring home all the parcels and that for all the tradesmen here in Bungay . |
| 8 | But er that was a commonplace thing he used to do that for all the kids . |
| 9 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 10 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |
| 11 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 12 | I find I can easily put things into perspective , see both sides of an issue , if I just sit around for a while and I probably do that for half an hour a day . |
| 13 | We will improve on that for half the gain . ’ |
| 14 | It was their view , and that of many an old-fashioned Mum , that the good Lord required a regular daily bowel movement . |
| 15 | His attitude was that of one the soldiers whose income by the sword he said he would better with his pen . |
| 16 | If the universe is destined to go on expanding forever , the temperature of the microwave radiation will eventually decrease to less than that of such a black hole , which will then begin to lose mass . |
| 17 | Perhaps Butler 's position is essentially that of such an intuitionist . |
| 18 | A leading Western authority on the reincorporation of the nationalities into the Soviet Union opined that of all the minorities the Belorussians had the weakest urge to set themselves apart . |
| 19 | In acquiring one 's conception of the world one always belongs to a particular grouping which is that of all the social elements which share the same mode of thinking and acting … . |
| 20 | As a committee member of the Beltex Sheep Society UK , one of the two rival societies promoting the breed in Britain , Mr Barnes is naturally convinced that of all the Texel types available to the commercial prime lamb producer the Beltex has the most to offer . |
| 21 | We were agreed that of all the billeting areas , Bedford would probably be our choice . |
| 22 | He found that of all the nutrient criteria , the two that were best able to predict reproductive success were protein intake and energy intake . |
| 23 | Italo Calvino 's last complete book , Mr Palomar ( 1985 ) , opens to the movement of waves and the look of a solitary observer whose gaze attempts to follow the progress of one single wave in its passage , separated and isolated from that of all the others , from open sea to shore . |
| 24 | Roeder portrayed him as ‘ an unassuming toiler ’ , ‘ His comprehensive knowledge of the Lakes stood above that of all the men of his time , not excepting Wordsworth ’ . |
| 25 | Before the crash of October 1987 , the total market capitalisation of UK listed equities exceeded that of all the other European markets put together . |
| 26 | At school we were taught an obscenely distorted history of my people , as well as that of all the other exploited colonies . |
| 27 | It was also economic : for example , after 1945 British steel production was more than two-thirds of the combined total of the other European members of the future OEEC , while its coal output nearly equalled that of all the other West European states . |
| 28 | Most agree that of all the candidates for the directorship of the National Gallery , Rusty Powell is perhaps the least art-historically rounded , despite having written several well received catalogue essays on American nineteenth-century paintings and a recently published monograph on Thomas Cole . |
| 29 | The porter , who had once been a sailor , told me that of all the saloon passengers only one ever visited the men below decks and his name was Charles Rocke . |
| 30 | The problems of converting industries designed for peacetime production to the manufacturing of military equipment were immense , but by 1944 US war production was double that of all the Axis powers combined . |