Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Segmented labour market theories help to explain the disadvantaged position of women and ethnic minorities in employment , and it is to these groups that we now turn . |
| 32 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 33 | The arguments over the significance of organic relationships that we normally associate with the debate over Darwin 's Origin of Species were being fought out in the natural-history museums and anatomy schools just when Darwin himself was first beginning to develop his evolutionary theory in the late 1830s . |
| 34 | She was pale and willowy , with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see . |
| 35 | And there 's another bit by the science block and there 's another bit I ca n't remember now where but there was three areas that I suddenly identified , I 'm thinking it 's grotty , it looks awful |
| 36 | It was in the later days that you gradually got the the buses were then fitted with these , these safes , they 've got the safes on the ticket machines on the buses , whereby every man 's cash working on that bus that day went into a vault on the bus . |
| 37 | Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time . |
| 38 | It is to these questions that I now turn . |
| 39 | There is also implicit criticism of John 's politically committed mother Rosalie ( Olympia Dukakis ) , so busy demonstrating for human rights that she shamefully neglects her son and fails to fill the fridge with enough food for him . |
| 40 | These children that you tastefully spit on have , for months , been spreading like mould on muck , and yet — o one knows their name . |
| 41 | Among the domestic mammals that we ordinarily eat , pigs are the only ones that are not strictly herbivorous . |
| 42 | It was on the playing fields that he had excelled , and had felt most at home , and it was on the playing fields that he now spent the afternoon . |
| 43 | But the Princess Royal has never enjoyed the grandeur of formal royal occasions and the second time round she will most likely go for something along the lines of the more relaxed and comfortable clothes that she usually favours . |
| 44 | The writers of fables and comedies were particularly vociferous in their scorn , reminding the worthy Quexos that they invariably ended their own tales with a marriage and a feast . |
| 45 | It is to these struggles that we now turn . |
| 46 | It was in that sense one of the strangest interviews that anybody ever had with Jesus . |
| 47 | The higher vertebrates , fossil mammals and dinosaurs in particular , have been described in so many books that they sometimes seem to have as much flesh and blood as any animal in the zoo . |
| 48 | We are such thoroughly visual animals that we hardly realize what a complicated business seeing is . |
| 49 | When I see a spider 's web , I no longer see the sinister aspects that I once saw . |
| 50 | She wore high platform-soled black shoes that I still believe I heard click on the bright polished floor as she walked between her looms . |
| 51 | Take in all the famous sights that you always wanted to see on a budget short trip |
| 52 | Animals learn to do many things that they never do as an unconditioned response to any stimulus . |
| 53 | ‘ When they started stripping the Duchess of Hamilton they started to find so many things that they virtually wished they had never started ! |
| 54 | The schedule seems to list so many exclusions that I sometimes wonder just what is included ! |
| 55 | But even from that the soaring fantasy needs to be pruned : Dryden believed Pericles to be Shakespeare 's earliest play , presumably his ugliest apprentice work , dug up from the pre-Titus Andronicus strata of foul papers ( in one of those great trunks that he probably left in the Mountjoys ' attic , in Silver Street , to be destroyed in the Great Fire ) , and now rewritten under pressure for a new kind of play for the Blackfriars stage . |
| 56 | It is to these complex processes that we now turn in Chapter 3 . |
| 57 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |
| 58 | And I mean it was a difficult start , and I was in fact a junior detective for five and a half years before any alteration was made in the staff , there was no promotions or leaving so that as junior detective for five and a half years , I got all jobs that nobody else wanted |
| 59 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 60 | The only speech that mentioned the enormous opportunities that we now offer tenants for participation in management systems was that of my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest . |