Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 2 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 3 | When I first started teaching drama I accepted the prevailing dogma that you started by getting children to work individually , then in pairs , then in small groups and eventually ( when they were really good at drama ) in larger groups ! |
| 4 | But there was no way she would allow herself to be carried away by that hypnotic pull that he had over her . |
| 5 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 6 | And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art . |
| 7 | Ignorance , combined with confidence that the popular support that he enjoyed inside France would make him indispensable to the Allies , may well explain his initially calm response to news of the invasion on 8 November . |
| 8 | The ideas and concepts of the prison structure in Scotland — outlined in a speech at the conference by Alan Walker , the deputy chief executive of the SPS — so impressed a Latvian delegation that they wrote to Scotland 's Minister of State , Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , asking his permission for Walker to visit the country . |
| 9 | While the meeting in the foyer was going on , the corporation gave a clear indication that it felt under pressure . |
| 10 | The following example combines the principle of peak load pricing with the idea of a two-part tariff that we introduced in Section 17–4 . |
| 11 | It was in a similarly reflective vein that he wrote to Marion Dorn later in the year . |
| 12 | When the name was officially changed the term ‘ non-objective ’ fell into general disfavour , possibly because of a public mis-perception that it referred to art without a purpose . |
| 13 | That old boy that I spoke to , when his he was with his daughter , I said you give me my bloody keys and you money ! |
| 14 | The last folly was finished in nineteen thirty-six and provoked such a public outcry that it led to the first-ever planning inquiry . |
| 15 | Penny , tuppence , three ha'penny returns and every denomination of tickets was recorded so that you so showed the erm number of tickets , erm it was possible for a at the end of the week to record what the takings were , per route and the mileage and so , as I told you before , the mileage played a great importance in that you were able to say how much that route was producing per mile run and the erm , in those days it , the erm the receipts worked out , daily receipts , weekly receipts and the progressive total in that year , were always published by the Ipswich Evening Star , round about Tuesday or Wednesday and if you missed them , there 'd be somebo member of the public ringing up to why , answer why you had n't put it in , it was , you know , looked upon then you were , were public transport and the public team that you belonged to them . |
| 16 | For the moment she was so shocked by Charlotte 's naked , sexual jealousy that she forgot to be frightened by the storm . |
| 17 | I think he might have tried , thinking that he must fulfill this sexual desire that he had in some way . |
| 18 | Melissa stared at the two slabs of raw meat that he took from the refrigerator and felt her appetite vanish . |
| 19 | As the Minister responsible at the time , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that we went to great lengths to minimise the disruption caused in classrooms by the provision of necessary training related to the introduction of education reforms . |
| 20 | After tea that day they all gathered in the kitchen and Mum brought out two great big bags full of dry brown stuff that she bought in the flower shop . |
| 21 | This is an interesting game that I discovered in the United States . |
| 22 | Britain 's membership of it has already done the untold harm to the British economy that I described in Chapter 5 ; the quicker the Government decides to abandon the objective of re-entering the ERM and to take back permanent control of the economy the better . |
| 23 | One factor in this is our exporting the very successful Bridal Collection that we developed in the U K , we 've exported that to Canada and the U S and that 's gone down very well indeed . |
| 24 | The editorial policy that he pursued in Monde was ultimately no doubt as much a product of his natural inclination for popular front co-operative politics , as it was a consequence of his scepticism regarding the possibilities for the development of proletarian literature in interwar capitalist France dominated by a hegemonic bourgeois cultural tradition . |
| 25 | She told one foreign reporter that she knew of the rumours and laughed them off , saying , ‘ If my relationship with the General Staff makes me a secret agent , maybe I am ! ’ |
| 26 | It 's an interesting situation that you alluded to , that people that win wars , on the whole , given enough time , are regarded as ‘ all right ’ , whereas people that lose often are cast in the role of being baddies . |
| 27 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 28 | I enclose the completed form that you mentioned for hire of the school classroom for Parish Council meetings . |
| 29 | Eventually they are turned to stone , but they retain not only the outward shape that they had in life , albeit sometimes distorted , but on occasion even their detailed cellular structure is preserved so that you can look at sections of them through the microscope and plot the shape of the blood vessels and the nerves that once surrounded them . |
| 30 | For example , it is not enough to talk simply in terms of the 103 ; the 103.2 , which formed part of a British system that we recommended in August 1985 was a completely different design from the present 103/4 . |