Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dr Trower says Diana 's way of holding her head high shows that she will not be submissive in the face of Charles 's attempt to dominate . |
| 32 | Its name also implies that the mineral springs , which have continued in use until now , were once presided over by a patron deity called Arnemetia , goddess of the sacred grove . |
| 33 | One evening when their father casually mentioned that a murderer was on the loose in the vicinity , the children were too terrified to sleep , listening anxiously to every rattle , creak and squeak in the silent house . |
| 34 | When he is first led into her presence she is veiled ‘ but with her draperies so arranged that they emphasised rather than concealed the wonderful elegance of her tall form ’ and ‘ two plaits of glossy , raven hair ’ , each ending in a ‘ single large pearl ’ , appear beneath her veil . |
| 35 | Dioxin was indeed found at one Rhone-Poulenc dump in France , its manager nervously explaining that it was good French dioxin , and not a nasty Italian import . |
| 36 | But , once it has spread so that its dimensions parallel to the wall are large compared with the boundary layer thickness , the motion over most of its area closely resembles that in a fully turbulent boundary layer to be described in Sections 21.5 and 21.6 . |
| 37 | Disabled patients who speak well of their doctors often say that they spend time with them , they listen , are helpful , visit regularly and are reliable . |
| 38 | So I do n't think her Nan really knows that Kelly does it to loads of people , do you know , cos she was Geraldine 's best friend , Katie 's best friend . |
| 39 | Daughter Elizabeth later refined the laws and increased the penalties , partly because she and her advisers often suspected that there were occult plots against the throne . |
| 40 | Their Lordships therefore consider that the profits accruing to the taxpayer on the grant of sub-licences during the relevant years of assessment arose in or derived from Hong Kong and as such were subject to profits tax under section 14 . |
| 41 | Their Lordships therefore consider that Mr. Perot 's interest in buying both the properties was a material factor which could have influenced the negotiations for the price at which Caliban was sold . |
| 42 | Indeed its members often denied that they belonged to any ‘ group ’ ; they were , they said , primarily friends , with certain family connections , who found some definition ( and their group name ) from the district of London where a number of them lived . |
| 43 | Their report clearly indicated that this coroner had been wrong in his judgement of how he should conduct his inquest which , in the opinion of the committee , should have been held after the public inquiry into the cause of the accident . |
| 44 | Virginia was staring at Horatia , her lips almost blue , her pupils so dilated that the eyes looked black . |
| 45 | Charlie rose from the chair and shook her hand vigorously to confirm that his first deal was closed . |
| 46 | Their results also show that this effect is independent of syntactic constraints , since there was no interaction between word order and knowledge of the title . |
| 47 | Is the Minister aware that a number of people in the west midlands and elsewhere who took the opportunity of buying their accommodation now find that their homes have been repossessed as a direct result of Government economic policy ? |
| 48 | A group is coherent in so far as it has a certain continuity in its consciousness , its organisation and its action ; but its coherence also implies that its members do actually support one another in practical ways that are consistent with the objectives of the group . |
| 49 | Its citizens presumably believed that their interests would be better served if Henry won , for he stood for the preservation of a single sovereign authority ruling in Poitou , England and Normandy , in other words over both ends of La Rochelle 's trade , over wine-growers and wine-drinkers . |
| 50 | Denning had referred in his report to their speeches in the House on 21 March 1963 and had commented that their remarks clearly imputed that Profumo had been responsible for the disappearance of Christine Keeler . |
| 51 | The relatively small number of East Germans who have so far actually left their country permanently suggests that the leadership 's decision on free travel was a shrewd move . |
| 52 | Queen Victoria 's children , Alice and Albert jnr , had their bumps felt because their mother strongly suspected that little Albert might be ‘ rather stupid ’ . |
| 53 | Rolls-Royce wrote personally to all its employees yesterday claiming that either a strike or a cut to a 35-hour week would be ‘ disastrous ’ for the company . |
| 54 | This new book by Angela Everitt and her colleagues perhaps indicates that a fresh start is being made , and that this state of affairs will begin to improve . |
| 55 | Their agreement also stated that the landlord could at any time use the rooms or permit other persons to use the rooms together with the " licensee " . |
| 56 | Though Craig and Jo have a number of sexy scenes together in Home and Away , she says the advantage of her real-life relationship with someone in the same industry is that her partner fully understands that romantic clinches with an international heart-throb are just part of the job . |
| 57 | But now , with her fires so stoked that she could no longer contain them , her messages were confused . |
| 58 | Years afterwards , in fact decades afterwards , when Nietzsche himself was no longer available for comment , his sister repeatedly asserted that as a young professor he had always intended to produce a " large " book on Greece , not one dealing with , or centred on , a single topic , but a book that would deal comprehensively with various aspects of Greek civilization . |
| 59 | In fact he was one of the intellectual élite ; none of his contemporaries ever thought that Wordsworth was ill-educated . |
| 60 | His guardian now insisted that the family move to a healthier climate This well-intentioned advice proved disastrous , for within the space of one year in Italy Smith had suffered from frostbite , smallpox and malaria . |