Example sentences of "of [det] [adj] [noun pl] that [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 He went off in the direction of some green doors that bore the legend ‘ Narcissus Clothing ’ , muttering , ‘ That 'll do , that 'll do . ’
2 What are we to make of these coded messages that go on bombarding us in their attempt to break through ?
3 It is possible for a man to assemble a large number of these mystical phrases that move the mind and to use them as passports to the transcendent world .
4 To visualize the positions of all efferent neurons that exit via the vii/viii nerve , we therefore applied the retrograde axonal tracer DiI to the exit point in r4 .
5 The present book does not pretend to do more than help students to lay some of the foundations of scoring methods , but of course they should be encouraged to keep abreast of all fruitful developments that take place .
6 If we are interested in young mothers , then we might try the Register of Births , and ask for a list of all recent births that have been registered .
7 For Poles , the programme of her party promised ‘ The equality of all national groups that live in Russia ; assurance of their cultural development ; national schools and freedom in the use of native languages ; provincial self-government , that is to say , autonomy ’ .
8 Main picture St Thomas à Becket just before his murder — one of many chilling gargoyles that line the walls of Toddington Manor , Gloucestershire .
9 Frank Tate will be well known to you all , not only as a fine bass player , but as the architect of many special groups that have appeared in the Guinness Spot .
10 And then by one of those quirky coincidences that make life interesting both women spoke at once , and both said the same thing .
11 At Bergheim — three houses and a gas station — we turned on to one of those narrow tracks that do n't even get a farm road numeral .
12 Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo .
13 We stop at a war memorial for what guitarist Graham Lambert ironically calls ‘ a photo opportunity ’ , only to be chased away by a jobsworth demanding a permit , and pause at a sculpture dedicated to the Jews that died in World War 2 , one of those chilling reminders that provide a spot of scary realism in every fantasy city .
14 That absence of detail is , however , most surprising , given this sensitivity to living space , for there are almost none of those sustained descriptions that become almost routine in Victorian fiction .
15 It must be noted , however , that the managers and workers of those domestic firms that go under will not see this as an undiluted benefit .
16 Sitting up , he was overcome with one of those slow yawns that seem like a prolonged agony , which he stopped with his hand , murmuring , when sufficient oxygen had been inhaled , that he was not yet properly awake .
17 Betty Boothroyd herself makes one of those up-beat speeches that roll their own psychology .
18 How they all fitted into their little house was one of those unsolved mysteries that come under discussion whenever there is a lull in the conversation .
19 It was n't , blast it , one of those back seats that turn into a double bed or a discotheque just by twiddling a few knobs and wrenching your spine out of joint .
20 Soil is comprised of several component parts that combine and behave together in a most remarkable way .
21 As I have said , we will keep in touch with the development of bids by management-employee buy-out teams and we shall take account of any relevant points that arise from that process .
22 But it is equally clear that its nature can not be accounted for by demonstrating its rules by a random use of any lexical items that come to mind .
23 We do not peer review advertisements as we peer review scientific papers , and I do not know of any medical journals that do .
24 Before it makes a new rule , an exchange must ensure that the relevant rule is within the scope of any statutory controls that apply to it , and covered by the exchange 's own objects and purposes .
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