Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not new to us , it is a connected memory that we are trying to revive to popularise its varied usage . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant thought that he could have been listening to , and taping , our conversations . ’ |
| 3 | The police driver asked for her documents but the woman explained , with a pleasant smile that they were at her home nearby . |
| 4 | She rewarded him with such a beaming smile that he took the memory of it into the surgery with him , where it stayed all morning , brightening the day for him . |
| 5 | Feeling the heat of his gaze right through the thin material , she folded her arms protectively , realising only when she saw his mouth curve into a mocking smile that she had merely pushed her breasts upwards , making them clearly visible above the ribbons and lace of the bodice . |
| 6 | He informed us in a haughty spirit that he would give my people thirty days to go back home , collect all their stock , and move to the reservation , saying , ‘ If you are not here in that time , I shall consider that you want to fight , and will send my soldiers to drive you on ’ . |
| 7 | Hearing from that individual , to his great concern , of the impending calamity , Captain Cuttle , in his delicacy , sheered off again confounded ; merely handing in the nosegay as a small mark of his solicitude , and leaving his respectful compliments for the family in general , which he accompanied with an expression of his hope that they would lay their heads well to the wind under existing circumstances , and a friendly intimation that he would " look up again " tomorrow(2) . |
| 8 | She is living with a friendly family that she knows . |
| 9 | For Jay , many things in life had been easy , a walk-over , ; she had leapt over and through the academic hurdles and hoops of childhood and teenage with a lazy facility that she only realised later . |
| 10 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 11 | On the other hand , his wound went so deep and he was such a vengeful man that he had wanted his wounder dead . |
| 12 | Then , a bit more politely : ‘ Or is that a subtle hint that you really believe it was an accident ? ’ |
| 13 | However , the firm will have to make the prescribed disclosure that all or most of the FSA protections do not apply if ( even though it does not have to do so ) it tells a private customer that it is a member of SFA or is otherwise FSA-authorised ; or ( 2 ) It is carried on with or for customers in the UK , but the FSA 's overseas person exemption would have applied if that non-UK office had been a separate person from the UK office ( see page 40 above and also below ) or , presumably , is outside the territorial scope of the FSA in any event ; or ( 3 ) The business is that of an appointed representative of the firm and is not carried on in the UK . |
| 14 | But he told the bishop at a private interview that he was depressed about preaching , he felt the people to be so remote from the practice of religion . |
| 15 | What remains is regret , a persistent idea that they might have been happy in the homeplace , if only they could have survived there . |
| 16 | Erm I think that Locke 's theology erm plays a much more crucial role in his thinking than many of my colleagues think and I mention this because er you might note this as a possible bias that you might like to take account of in reading Locke . |
| 17 | There is , therefore , a broad consensus that our present system is not designed to engender widespread active citizenship . |
| 18 | CHANCELLOR Kenneth Clarke today waded into a fresh Tory rift over public spending after delivering a broad hint that his November Budget will bring rises in indirect taxes . |
| 19 | CHANCELLOR Kenneth Clarke today waded into a fresh Tory rift over public spending after delivering a broad hint that his November Budget will bring rises in indirect taxes . |
| 20 | In June he gave a broad hint that he was on the verge of acting . |
| 21 | The children who are coming up from the primary schools to secondary schools are going through a change themselves , and it would be such a broad area that we could integrate Science , English , Maths and everything under that sort of umbrella . |
| 22 | Thank you for my copy of the December issue , which as always has a lively and readable quality , with a prestigious appearance that I think well-serves the image our Institute would wish to present to the world . |
| 23 | Her father 's habitual mild-manneredness , which usually protected him from responding , became brittle and porous when he was in contact with his daughter : Miranda could see that he reacted to Xanthe 's silkiness as if she were n't a clear , sparkling water , but a fiery solvent that he , for all his well-preened feathers , could not resist . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Longdon , resisting , kept erect with a low gasp that his host only was near enough to catch . |
| 25 | This has such a low density that it can float in water and blocks of pumice may travel thousands of kilometres across the world 's oceans . |
| 26 | If we have such a low requirement that it can be met from windfalls , small sites and recycling land above commitments , then that is not certainty , that is uncertainty and that is not in my estimation the basis on which the planning system is meant to operate on , so that people can invest with confidence . |
| 27 | in part this reflects the fact that occupational skill levels are of such a low order that they present no real requirement for educational preparation . |
| 28 | ‘ If you 're forced to live on benefits you 're thrown on to such a low level that you ca n't dress properly for interviews or even afford the travel involved . |
| 29 | my Lord then all , what , then , was not restricting competition because the people you have excluded are not people who would be in the market in any event , you are already saying we 've got the level of the , the , the hurdle , the wall or the barrier to such a low level that anybody who 's outside it , it is simply not a competitor , we 've got everybody in the market who could conceivably deserve to be there , but there 's no restriction , no you maybe excluding criminals or fraudsters for a , until they 've been re rehabilitated , er and you 're excluding people who simply do not deserve to be there as competitors at all , but no capability of right to compete and that 's why there is no restriction , everybody is in the charm circle who wants to be there and is capable of competing and that 's what the commission are trying to get the rules down to , making sure that no one is outside of the wall who should be inside of the wall and that 's why of course at the end of the day they can give their clearances , there 's no restriction . |
| 30 | ‘ I reached such a low ebb that there were many times when the last thing I wanted to do was to go out and play golf . |