Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However in industries like shipbuilding , oil refining or chemicals , production is so capital intensive that it restricts the possibility of transferring the burden of adjustment to small firms . |
| 2 | Samuel , picking up an unintentional slight that she considered Throgmorton a better chairman , bristled . |
| 3 | It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor . |
| 4 | Mao specifically said in April nineteen forty five that whoever argues absolute egalitarianism is wrong . |
| 5 | Now twenty two is So they do n't say twenty and two it 's only on the ones like twenty one thirty one forty one that you say twenty and one thirty and one . |
| 6 | Yeah , he does , he thinks it 's another just that he has a little drink now and then . |
| 7 | She waited silently behind the door , her face flushed , half excited , half disappointed that he did n't take it further by knocking for admittance , until she came to her senses . |
| 8 | This can also happen if a pain is very severe and strong such that it makes all the other symptoms pale into insignificance . |
| 9 | Robbie was very much afraid that she knew the answer . |
| 10 | Local authorities have had powers of this nature for many years ( the origin was the 1932 Planning Act ) , but it was not until the property boom of the early 1970s that they became widely used . |
| 11 | As will be demonstrated with respect to Orientalism itself , Said can not get out of the Hegelian problematic that he articulates , and indeed tends himself to repeat the very processes that he criticizes . |
| 12 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 13 | ( According to some accounts , a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity . |
| 14 | It was also in this period of the early Sixties that he experimented with LSD and , like most of his contemporaries , used marijuana . |
| 15 | This involves setting targets for the growth of the money supply : the approach adopted in the Thatcher government 's medium-term financial strategy of the early 1980s that we looked at in Chapter 17 . |
| 16 | I mean it 's not just letting the excesses go which I think understand it when you first said it , so that idea in itself is a Party idea , it 's not just letting the , the peasants do it and say well okay what you 're trying to say now is that okay that we have got this strategy , we 'll let the excesses go and then we 'll stop it , we get to about stage B and stage C and move on and move on . |
| 17 | " Fell overboard , " Rowe explained , and the other crew members stood around shame-faced , each conscious that he had shared in the incompetence which had prevented the recovery of their skipper . |
| 18 | But in fact they were so ill prepared that they lost their naval base of Minorca and seemed unable to organize any effective counter-measures . |
| 19 | If I start accepting funds from the government , people will lose that charitable ideal that I want to leave behind me when I 'm gone . ’ |
| 20 | If we get it wrong in year two , it will be even more wrong in year three , because the distribution is n't going to alter dramatically in our favour , so if there is under-funding in ninety four , ninety five that we manage , it will present itself as a larger problem in ninety five , six , and an even larger problem in ninety s six , seven , so that needs to be borne in mind . |
| 21 | Well how on earth do you start spot checking on a hundred and twenty eight thousand companies you know , the first nine hundred and ninety five that you do may be the ones that are running perfectly . |
| 22 | Now that was seven ninety nine that you bought for Rosemary . |
| 23 | Other matters arising on page eight , you 'll see on item one three four that we did investigate the possibility , did we , have we got a response on that , of an officer being part of the joint care planning team . |
| 24 | Yes er Chairman erm the eighteen point three million that we quoted in last year 's report , we actually added into the revenue budget the provision for structural maintenance that was contained in the capital programme . |
| 25 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 26 | If somebody 's accepted the , the fifty thousand that we passed |
| 27 | Yeah , I think in the end it was fifty thousand that we did , which is going to go out with all the mailings over the next few weeks . |
| 28 | ‘ That all that we know of ourselves is an unimportant encrustation over the true seed of the eternal idea which lives inside us , using us as a vehicle merely , which develops in spite of us . |
| 29 | Is that all that I 've done ? |
| 30 | Yes Mr Chairman , I er , Mrs qui quite rightly said we can congratulate the Fire Service on the way they dealt with that plane crash , and er , we 're all sorry that it happened . |