Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist .
2 Indeed , it is a common observation in experiments of this kind that subjects themselves often express confusion about what they are conscious of .
3 The Health Minister , Virginia Bottomley has said in the House of Commons this afternoon that haemophiliacs who contracted the H I V virus through imported blood products , can not expect further compensation .
4 It was a general principle of English and also Scandinavian medieval law that relatives who inherited land were responsible for supporting its former owners , including widows .
5 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage .
6 There is also some evidence that students who have passed at least one A-level or a similar examination are likely to perform well in higher education .
7 There is some evidence that patients who get torsades de pointes in response to one type of 1a antiarrhythmic drug have an increased incidence of this arrhythmia in response to other drugs in the same class .
8 There is certainly some evidence that people who drink one or two units a day are less likely to die of heart disease than people who drink no alcohol at all .
9 His insistence as a public examiner that men who aspired to become Bachelors or Doctors of Divinity should show knowledge of the Scriptures rather than of the commentators made him unpopular with the Friars .
10 It was a basic tenet of a free society that people themselves must be the judge of what contributed to their material welfare .
11 As a young professional with Fulham some 30 and more years ago , he prospered hugely from advice offered in no uncertain terms by Joe Bacuzzi , a redoubtable professional of the old school and a firm believer in the unassailable principle that full-backs who can not defend should seek alternative employment .
12 For example , in English Hop Growers Ltd v Derring [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 Scrutton LJ said " I have always for myself regarded it as in the public interest that parties who , being in an equal position of bargaining , make contracts , should be compelled to perform them , and not to escape from their liabilities by saying that they had agreed to something which was unreasonable " .
13 It is in this context that minorities who may feel that their causes are not adequately represented in Parliament wish to use their freedom of protest to draw attention to their plight .
14 According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better .
15 There is a real danger that trainees who in their early years depend too much on the laryngeal mask will find themselves insufficiently experienced in this vital aptitude .
16 This was essentially a biological approach , influenced by the taxonomic studies of Ray , and it aroused so much interest that Ray himself undertook a Latin translation .
17 Both the book entitled For Marx , and Althusser 's essay in Reading Capital are elaborate interpretations of Marx 's views , and this fact is not explained by the simple observation that Althusser himself is a Marxist , anxious to give an account of the theory of history to which he is politically committed .
18 ZeeBeeCee has gained a court order allowing access to Jessamyn Bonney 's juvenile records , stored in the central infonet of the Bruyce-Hoare Agency , and we can exclusively reveal for the first time on national television that evidence which has come to light since her 1992 parricide hearing has suggested that she was indeed guilty of the murder of her father , a crime for which she was acquitted in court on the testimony of one Andrew Jean , since deceased , a gangcult associate and known perjurer . ’
19 It is a well-established phenomenon that nonwords which sound like actual words ( known as " pseudo-homophones " ) tend to gain slower responses than those which look as if they may be words , but do not sound like any .
20 He looked tired , in the bruised way that people who are physically slight do look tired , but not so much so that any of the congregation would notice .
21 I have ample evidence that persons who are very aware of matters of public interest in general have been unaware at a critical stage of the washed-over status at that time of Skelton .
22 Better watch that Paul you 'll pull all your fillings out
23 I trust that at some stage I will have the opportunity to tax him on the curious proposal that legislation which increases the wage bill of companies does not necessarily increase the costs of those companies and therefore can be regarded as having nil effect on their competitiveness .
24 Er , that was quite a good place that Yasensgat whatever it 's called , was n't it ?
25 There is substantial evidence that people who have migrated to Britain quite commonly send sums of money on a regular basis to assist relatives still living in their country of origin .
26 The definition also removes the present reference to expectation and with it the possible argument that goods which are generally of low quality generate low expectations .
27 It 's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated .
28 Little direct evidence exists , however , to support the initial proposal that PYY itself is the mediator of the ‘ ileal brake ’ reflex .
29 The horrible irony is that it is in that very surrender that community itself is founded .
30 The whole Manson range are based around bodies of alder , a stable , medium-to-lightweight timber that Fender themselves often used on guitars from late 1956 onwards .
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