Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Invited the Lord President to take soundings among Government supporters with a view to determining whether it would be possible to persuade those who were in favour of the abolition of capital punishment that in the interests of securing the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in the 1947–48 Session they should refrain from pressing for this change in the law ; |
| 32 | The only thing is another old place that in was Auchentipple There used to be a chapel there and it was called the Hunt Chapel , but it 's just a hunt now . |
| 33 | They were friendly , but with a suburban reserve ; they were mad on sport and thought everybody knew all about it ; and they were gaining a glittering net-curtain prosperity against a background of ruined buildings that in England had been bombed in the war ( and in Ireland had fallen down ) . |
| 34 | The company car is such a feature of modern British business that in teaching the noble art of firing people , the London Business School reminds trainee firers to demand the car keys from a dismissed employee promptly — not because these are today 's equivalent of Dreyfus 's epaulettes ( which they are ) , but because the car , stuck immovably in the company car-park , may depress other executives . |
| 35 | However , it is a matter of historical record that in the twenties the Ipswich branch had opposed the development of a district organisation and viewed the period following the introduction of the 1924 Adult Education Regulations as one of increasing centralisation . |
| 36 | Fiscally it signified little , for the total tax liability ( inclusive of the loan payment ) remained unaltered at 20 per cent , though there is the important social difference that from this point the proportion of subsidy assessments on landed incomes increases sharply . |
| 37 | The sculpted figures of mineworkers with their lamps are the work of M. B. Braun from 1721–5 and are a salient reminder that without the silver mines of Jihlava and Kutná Hora royal patronage of the arts would not have been possible . |
| 38 | Flaubert does not build up his characters , as did Balzac , by objective , external description ; in fact , so careless is he of their outward appearance that on one occasion he gives Emma brown eyes ( 14 ) ; on another deep black eyes ( 15 ) ; and on another blue eyes ( 16 ) . |
| 39 | She might think he was a little coarse doing that after saying he despised her , but so what ? |
| 40 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 41 | On the other hand , the unpopularity of the Christians was also caused by unpleasant stories that at their nocturnal meetings they indulged in cannibalism and incest ( charges easily explicable from misunderstandings of language about the eucharist ) . |
| 42 | May I impress on my hon. Friend that in Plymouth we are tired of waiting what seems like years for land to be released ? |
| 43 | I agree with my hon. Friend that in the past the weakness when farmers have got together has been the quality of marketing and management that they bring to a project . |
| 44 | To encourage speculators Chéron published a brochure , assuring his would-be customers that by collecting paintings of promising young artists and selling them ten or fifteen years later , they could realize an increase of five to ten times on the purchase price . |
| 45 | Planetary interiors are ultimately expected to experience declining temperatures , and there is some fairly direct evidence that to some extent this has already occurred in Mercury . |
| 46 | Overnight the new Soviet government , with plans for social welfare that on paper went far beyond those of Scandinavia or Britain in 1945 , had to take over . |
| 47 | For instance , interactionists point to the evidence in the Kinsey report on sexual behaviour that over one-third of male adults have had a homosexual experience to the point of orgasm , and that only one in twenty goes on to adopt a continuing homosexual role . |
| 48 | Mr Edwin Nathan has left his post as head of French operations after telling a French newspaper that in exchange for a high price for Imigran — £32 for a month 's supply in Britain — Glaxo would build a £100 million factory in France . |
| 49 | Therefore , if were incorrectly derived from an acoustic waveform that in fact corresponded to an intended production of thanks for sending me your letter , the syntactic/semantic component would not only have to reject all the improbable competitors such as thanks force ending knee your letter , but also to identify that the word knee has been incorrectly derived instead of me . |
| 50 | It is clear to the right hon. Gentleman that for him the banner of rights and freedoms that he would wave represents a very different set of outcomes from those in which Conservatives believe . |
| 51 | I regret that the seasonally adjusted figure went up by 700 to 121,600 last month , but I remind the hon. Gentleman that in January 1986 , the figure was over 170,000 . |
| 52 | As for the hon. Gentleman 's suggestion that the grant-maintained school policy might be paralysing the production of reorganisation proposals , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that in the past 12 months 150 proposals for school reorganisations were received and some 93 have so far been approved . |
| 53 | Moshe Aumann concluded from original British figures that in 1948 Jews owned 8.6 per cent of the land and Arabs 20.2 per cent ; of which , he claimed , 16.9 per cent was abandoned by Arabs when they thought the neighbouring Arab armies were going to destroy Israel . |
| 54 | The problem , which has long troubled white consciences , has come to the fore now because of a decision by the High Court that in one case aborigines have a legal claim to lands where they hunted before the white man came . |
| 55 | Baldwin lanced this boil fairly quickly and quietly by an announcement to a party meeting on 11 February : ‘ I do not feel justified in advising the party again to submit the proposal for a general tariff to the country except on the clear evidence that on this matter public opinion is disposed to reconsider its judgment of two months ago . ’ |
| 56 | Smooth plains are distinguished from intercrater plains by a far lower number density of small craters and by clear evidence that on the smooth plains there has occurred the obliteration or partial obliteration of craters . |
| 57 | In countries like Brazil , the original financing had come so heavily from foreign loans that by the mid-1980s , SOE debt was over half of the total foreign commercial debt . |
| 58 | For Jackie , it also brought a number of painful reminders that in those days , perhaps only a trifle more than now , driver mortality was a fact of life . |
| 59 | Every possibility is covered in so many different ways that in the end there 's no possibility whatsoever . |
| 60 | Roman was early ; Claudia left her office on the hour , closing the door with an irrational feeling that by the next time she saw it many things , including herself , would be irrevocably changed . |