Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious at being treated as if she were a brainless bimbo , she raised her eyebrows , giving him back such a measured look that he actually coloured a little and moved away . |
| 2 | All I can do now is praise the NME for finally showing him to be the xenophobic shit that he really is . |
| 3 | Since the dividing line is somewhat hazy , check with your architect or other professional adviser that he/she fully understands the technical requirements . |
| 4 | It was a further proof of Thomas Carter 's blissful innocence that he evidently had no idea that his swimming-pool , tennis court , fitted kitchen and high-tech appliances were as contemptible to the class whose values he so admired as the Parsons ' van Gogh prints and Dacron three-piece suite . |
| 5 | The King 's criticism was believed to be in response to recent Saudi demands that he publicly apologize for Jordan 's position in the Gulf war . |
| 6 | So when my parent says to me , give those two units of parental investment that I just gave you , to , to offspring B I do n't want to , because the benefit to offspring B , or rather the genes I share with offspring B , does n't compensate sate me for the , for the sacrifice . |
| 7 | Dot 's heart began pounding , first with anxiety , then with an irrational hope that it just might be Mr Brown who was back . |
| 8 | Melanie was worried that this would upset Stan , but he was already giving clear signs that he just wanted to avoid conflict . |
| 9 | In the Qur'an , which is the most sacred text of Moslems , God is more often described in terms of generalised epithets that we normally associate with human life — for instance , Hearer , Keeper , Guide and Pardoner . |
| 10 | I suddenly realized recently that I 'm so far short of having any kind of representational experience that I just do n't know what 's going on in this country . |
| 11 | It is a tribute to how far we have come already in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we can not predict . |
| 12 | Several other chairmen wanted a concerted public admission that they too had inadvertently breached the regulations ( and it was indeed difficult to avoid technical breaches of the detailed regulations ) , but the choice was made rather to maintain a prudential low profile . |
| 13 | Some farmers have been so convinced by industry-generated publicity over the absence of a proper income that they just have n't bothered declaring any income . |
| 14 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
| 15 | If you have upgraded to MS-DOS 5 then you have a free bonus that it almost worth the cost of the upgrade on its own — QBasic . |
| 16 | Our participants had the clear perception that they also have powers within the classroom , conceived as a specific social setting , and they act to establish themselves and their powers . |
| 17 | Moreover , it is frequently pointed out that the early Christian definitions of faith did not mean by the Greek and Latin words that we commonly translate as ‘ person ’ exactly what we would mean by ‘ person ’ today . |
| 18 | The old adage that you only get out what you put in becomes very meaningful and it is only too easy to miss an employee out of a list because a code has been entered incorrectly or because information is inconsistent . |
| 19 | Rather than setting unrealistically high expectations that you then fail to realise , or low expectations that become a self-fulfilling prophecy , take time out to sit and visualise a situation going well . |
| 20 | And it was so lovely to see a bathful of hot water and a proper place that I almost did n't care . |
| 21 | He had so many appreciative friends in very high places that he probably considered himself safe . |
| 22 | It is to these experiences of unemployment and social security that we now turn . |
| 23 | The ‘ unit of desire ’ however , is admitted to be a presumption , but if it were possible to prove with scientific exactitude that it really existed then it would not be within the province of religion at all , but of science . |
| 24 | I assure my hon. Friend that I very much look forward to visiting his constituency and to meeting some of the industrialists whose interests he energetically represents . |
| 25 | Virtually noone at this level uses the high elbow that we commonly teach in the UK . |
| 26 | The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life . |
| 27 | The speaker 's failure to comment overtly on syntactic structure here can not of course be interpreted as reliable evidence that he habitually uses and understands the construction . |
| 28 | I can , however , reassure the hon. Gentleman that we regularly keep security matters under review and take all necessary further steps in the light of such reviews . |
| 29 | Amanda said she loved the live show , that Sandra was n't particularly attractive but had a great body and showed what good hair and good clothes could do , and then , in an off-hand comment that she probably regretted almost immediately , declared that if she was ever to sleep with a woman , it would be Sandra . |
| 30 | The inflation led to social destabilisation on a massive scale and so embittered the German people that it undoubtedly contributed to the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism in the 1930s . |