Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [pron] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dot 's heart began pounding , first with anxiety , then with an irrational hope that it just might be Mr Brown who was back . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And it was so lovely to see a bathful of hot water and a proper place that I almost did n't care . |
| 16 | It is to these experiences of unemployment and social security that we now turn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Virtually noone at this level uses the high elbow that we commonly teach in the UK . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | During lunch he treated Barbara with a grave courtesy that she later realized was a mask for his shyness . |
| 25 | It was against this densely-textured historical backdrop that I recently awaited the delivery of my own fax machine . |
| 26 | The bolt was on the door and the top was off the bottle of Old Bedwetter that I generally reserve for moments such as these . |
| 27 | We have also made it very clear that upon the signing of a cease fire , but not before , all coalition forces will be drawn back from Iraqi territory that we currently occupy . |
| 28 | Unhappily , in August 1991 , those friends informed the social worker that they no longer felt able to care for the children . |
| 29 | His success in London was immediate , and it is to the history and development of English painting that he subsequently belongs . |
| 30 | Nick was runner-up in the 200m individual medley and Susan was third in the 200m butterfly and although sixth in the 100m freestyle , such was the high standard that she still broke the Northumberland and Durham junior and senior open women 's records . |