Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [noun pl] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 2 | It knows that Channel 5 faces such formidable technical and financial obstacles that it will be lucky to get on the air at all . |
| 3 | The Christmas rumpus led to unfair and short-sighted predictions that it was the swansong in Frank McAvennie 's eventful career . |
| 4 | Her tone is , intentionally , intensely irritating and any hopes that it will soften to chastened humanity through spiritual education are vain . |
| 5 | Mainstream psychology often attributes an agency to working-class , gay and black women that it does not allow to men in these groups . |
| 6 | In the 1970s Australia and California were producing such full , fruity and oaky Chardonnays that it was hard to drink more than one glass . |
| 7 | By 1800 there was a widespread argument in the medical and moralistic texts that it caused physical illness , and features such as acne , epilepsy and premature ejaculation . |
| 8 | It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built . |
| 9 | I know that the Combined Heat and Power Association recently submitted a report to OFFER pointing out some institutional and administrative barriers that it should like to be tackled . |