Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , Arab linguists ( Abdel Jawad , 1987 ; Alahdal , 1989 ) have found it difficult to reconcile the concepts of ‘ standard ’ and ‘ prestige ’ , because rural norms that are identical to standard Arabic are shown to be dispreferred in favour of urban ‘ non-standard ’ forms . |
| 2 | This reflects the traditions of an authority , or the lasting influence of a chief officer , but it may also reflect a natural desire by those involved to minimise the political conflicts that are generated when big changes are proposed in one department 's budget compared with others . |
| 3 | We , the organisers , put up ideas to the executive committee which arrives at a consensus , then we discuss possible titles that are appropriate and short enough to capture the necessary publicity . |
| 4 | Dramatic herself , she enjoyed drama in art ; and the music swept in over emotional defences that were already down . |
| 5 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 6 | Further basinwards , the aprons pass into thin , laminated , organic-rich muds that were deposited in a basin plain environment ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 7 | The Lower Fourth numbered eighteen ten- and eleven-year-olds , sagging over their desks in assorted attitudes that were meant to indicate intense attention , dreadful weariness , shrewd insight or rapt admiration . |
| 8 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 9 | The centralized bureaucratic apparatus of the state became subordinated to the interests of the dominant economic groups that were already creating a commercial agriculture and would subsequently promote industrial development : ‘ for the first time a state had been created whose policies and activities were shaped in response to the needs and movement of civil society ’ ( Gamble 1981 : 67 ) . |
| 10 | There could have been a similar reaction to the prospect of a Wilson administration and especially with the kind of rough-neck covert operations that were in progress in Ulster . |
| 11 | It was er The village centre is about the same as it was when I was a boy , more busier of course , all the private houses that were on the front , you know , Street ? |
| 12 | One of the main jobs of the unit is to advise branch managers about technical projects that are worth backing . |
| 13 | It should be noted further that these decisions affect not only the physical character of an area , including its infrastructure requirements and the condition of the local environment , but also the range and type of other economic activities that are carried on there . |
| 14 | In Britain Wilson 's Labour Government sustained a half-hearted support for the war , and economic policies that were enough to drive Labour 's constituency amongst the young working-class socialists and student radicals out of the Party . |
| 15 | Regional broadcasters presented events in Parliament to their viewers through a range of creative and innovative programmes that were distinctive in a number of ways ’ . |
| 16 | Certain sexual activities or drug-using activities that are able to transmit HIV from one person to another are called ‘ high risk activities ’ . |
| 17 | While Bolsheviks and radical socialists urged a boycott of the WICs , the predominantly Menshevik Labour groups that were established secured a new platform . |
| 18 | As a consequence , the functional modules of the brain may well be bigger than the individual areas of the cortex or subcortical nuclei that are the conventional units of analysis . |
| 19 | Yeah econ what appears to be the case is that it 's economic reasons that are the main drive , the main driving factors from er the migrant . |
| 20 | Not only could slum youth sometimes afford to pay their fines when they appeared in the police courts — a shocking enough fact to their respectable contemporaries that was often remarked upon — but they could even pick and choose what clothes they would wear when they came to court . |
| 21 | Each language has what we might call general preferences for certain patterns of reference as well as specific preferences that are sensitive to text type . |
| 22 | Vogue assured its readers that ‘ everyone goes cruising and the trouble is not to find a cruise but to choose from the numberless , almost equally alluring cruises that are most suited to one 's particular fancy ’ . |
| 23 | Given that , at least in the first year of the new council tax , there will still be two-tier authorities in the shires , I hope that the Bill will be as tight as a drum to ensure that the tiered authorities that are not up for election do not use that freedom from the ballot box — as happened in Nottinghamshire with the poll tax — to wreck the council tax in the way that they wrecked the poll tax in its first year . |
| 24 | So , so what we 're talking , we 're not saying you know there are groups and there 're individuals and there 's a gap in between , what we 're saying is there 's a kind of continuum from very groupie groups where the individual is , is practically hypnotized by the , by , by , by , by the group to erm more or less complete individualism where individuals belong to , to emotional groups that are very , very weak and where identification with the with the sentries is pretty pretty minimal . |
| 25 | The position on Euro Cities also is that we , and unfortunately are the leading European cities that are involved in promoting good initiatives on the expertise of what exists within , be it economic development , be it equal opportunities policies , we are promoting this city and the benefit of getting those grants and having those foresight of putting officers into Brussels means that is being invited by other cities within Europe and Eastern Europe to develop links based on what our expertise is . |
| 26 | Also during this process he should begin to note down ( on cards ) details of specific titles that are heavily used and may require duplication . |
| 27 | Figure 3 shows that , using a linear template , a very reduced amount of transcripts was obtained when the initiating NTPs were omitted , whereas their addition led to the formation of initiated complexes that were resistant to the heparin challenge . |
| 28 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 29 | Weldex , which was set up in 1979 and now has a turnover of £4 million , will this week take delivery of Glasgow-based cranes that were stranded in England after Lilley 's collapse . |
| 30 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |