Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I personally never rated Ickx as a driver or as a human being and Regazzoni , though a great step upwards from the slick gigolo type that Ickx liked to play , like a second-rate understudy for Jean-Paul Belmondo , always struck me as stronger on brawn and stubbornness than on brain . |
| 2 | Then a shapely arm followed , and then the hamadryad leaned right out and grasped the astonished wizard firmly and , with that vegetable strength that can send roots questing into rock , drew him into the tree . |
| 3 | What 's that treacle thing that we got from you the other day ? |
| 4 | Is there no more erm that sewing club that you go to on a Wednesday , is it finished ? |
| 5 | Funded by the countries of the European Community and the European Free Trade Association , the new network is to be called EuropaNet and replaces IXI , the X25-based backbone network that has served the research community across Europe for the last two years . |
| 6 | That is to say , there is a way of positioning the grating relative to the receptive field centre that results in no response . |
| 7 | The trick is to find a way of giving the Europeans enough of a feeling that they can pursue security policies of their own without at the same time forming a European defence association that would drive the Americans away . |
| 8 | There could not be a European defence force that was not a nuclear power . |
| 9 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |
| 10 | The Asthma Question Box is a modified Psion Organiser that is programmed to ask patients questions about their symptoms and to allow them to record peak expiratory flow . |
| 11 | allow 1 link for each user image that will run on the host node , ( probably the same as MAXCONCURRENTUSERS in the LIFESPAN configuration file ) |
| 12 | allow 1 link for each user image that may concurrently access LIFESPAN from either the host or remote nodes ( probably the same as MAXCONCURRENTUSERS in the LIFESPAN configuration file ) |
| 13 | The Government are determined to get rid of arrangements that differentiate against the United Kingdom , whereas the Labour party wishes to increase such differentiation and to pay farmers and others in the southern European states money that will come from the very low incomes of British farmers . |
| 14 | This is a much more difficult task and is so dependent on each specific teaching unit that it is difficult to produce a generalized structure . |
| 15 | Not just another moisturiser , Time Zone is a true dry skin treatment that addresses , for the first time , the multiple , dermatological causes of dry skin — as well as the results . |
| 16 | He shuffled , he stamped , he stayed well back in the shelter of the narrow brick passageway that he 'd found as a better lookout point . |
| 17 | This means , in effect , that each Alu sequence that inserts itself into the chromosomes carries with it the means to get out again and reinsert itself somewhere else . |
| 18 | Indeed , it was in that elite Division that David 's tireless workrate , intelligent and selfless running and accurate distribution proved him to be a footballer of high calibre . |
| 19 | Implicit is the idea that A has some form of control over B , or at least a strong bargaining position that enables A to score a ‘ victory ’ over B. Companies sometimes have power of this kind over suppliers , as where the company is one of only a limited number of buyers of a supplier 's goods or services , and even to an extent over governments , manifested , for example , in negotiations over subsidies or in successful attempts to dilute the content of regulation . |
| 20 | Is my is my right honourable friend aware that yesterday the Chairman of the board of inland revenue told the private accounts committee that some five hundred and fifty million pounds of unclaimed tax still remains to be picked up by tax payers who 've been affected by the er the change in the tax regime in the last couple of years where for example women are now assessed independently . |
| 21 | The introduction of charges reneges on ministerial assurances given during the passage of the 1986 Agriculture Act that the conservation service would not be cut back and would remain free . |
| 22 | any part of a lower case letter that extends below the x-height , as in the case of y and j . |
| 23 | In these papers , all kinds of non- and extra-philosophical activities become the basis for philosophical reflection , for instance menstruation and childbirth ( Brenda Almond 's paper ) ; a gut reaction to pornography ( Alison Assiter 's paper ) ; the fantasies that disturb because of their apparently unfeminist nature Jean Grimshaw 's paper ) ; and nonviolent demonstrations against missile bases ( Anne Seller 's paper ) ; the point in each case being that these experiences are the starting point , because their importance did not seem to be recognised within the theoretical categories already provided , and so urgently impel the theorist to work out categories that are more adequate . |
| 24 | I mean I I know in that budget thing that we put together towards the end of last year , we did n't really look at it |
| 25 | In Ministère Public v. Deserbais ( Case 286/86 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 4907 , 4926 , para. 18 the court concluded from that case law that : |
| 26 | Prior to the Tektronix announcement , such users were confined to an IBM system using the PS/2 board or waiting for the Network Computing Devices Inc plug-in board option that is announced but not yet available . |
| 27 | Ask for details at your local professional hair salon that stocks Schwarzkopf . |
| 28 | An advanced Stealth Fighter that 's so fast , and deadly , it can be in and out of enemy airspace so fast they barely hear the sonic boom before they 're up to their necks in explosive ordnance . |
| 29 | Like Mr Sneddon , we would like to see the Government look at the wider picture and to develop a coherent defence policy that addresses all the issues . |
| 30 | More perceptively , Lloyd Shearer in Parade wrote , ‘ With his short stature , hook nose , beady eyes , unkempt hair , he looks like a loser , and it is precisely because of that loser image that the younger generation have made him their winner . ’ |