Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [be] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authorities that have been rate-capped and lost grant have had to cut services or put off planned improvements . |
| 2 | And just as Koestler the man seemed devoid of small talk , so too all the writings that followed were pertinent and direct , never trivial or sloppy . |
| 3 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 4 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 5 | All things that exist are particular and singular . |
| 6 | It is firmly established , and when there is a tendency to ‘ darkening ’ of initial [ l ] , the conditions that apply are linguistic and not social : relatively ‘ dark ’ [ l ] occurs mainly before relatively retracted vowels . |