Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they may not alter the actual risks that something will happen , they at least inspire the feeling that such events are not entirely outside the hunter 's control . |
| 2 | The thing reportedly could n't find its critical paths and gave off false signals that everything was hunky-dory when it was n't . |
| 3 | Even when our bodies give us very clear signals that something is wrong , we will hardly ever take responsibility for any problems that we may incur . |
| 4 | This seems an absurd consequence and signals that something is wrong with Freeman 's basic assumptions . |
| 5 | So wide are the analyses and the prescriptions that one is tempted to wonder whether the concept of pluralist stagnation might itself be applied to the political analysis of Britain 's ills . |
| 6 | So you have to beware of blind alleys like that ; from personal experience , there are loads of these styles that no-one has ever asked me to play . ’ |
| 7 | You just think it looks good to be seen with books that nobody can pronounce the name of . |
| 8 | It would challenge young people 's sense of responsibility , he hoped , and show these troubled teenagers that someone trusted and believed in them . |
| 9 | In it , he imagines what would happen to London if it became so choked with cars that no-one could move . |
| 10 | What , after all , are dodgems but toy cars that one can climb into ? |
| 11 | They 've got a series of almost like ethnic murals that somebody 's done all along . |
| 12 | And yet the two were so different in so many other crucial respects that one can not but suspect something else to have been involved — something which the four issues listed above served to mask for posterity . |
| 13 | If that 's the case , I wonder just how many people write labels that no-one else can read . |
| 14 | So the Local Authorities would be left to administer only those schools that nobody wanted to go to . |
| 15 | Sadly the valves that everybody is selling today — including us — are just a shadow of the quality that they were even ten years ago . |
| 16 | Sadly the valves that everybody is selling today — including us — are just a shadow of the quality that they were even ten years ago . |
| 17 | Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar . |
| 18 | For reasons that no-one can yet explain , teetotal Leslie 's Rolls-Royce careered off the M5 motorway , mounted an embankment and flipped onto its roof . |
| 19 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 20 | This approach seems likely to leave a ‘ grey area ’ of flows that one might or might not choose to call turbulent . |
| 21 | There are several such subgroups that one can easily explore : for example , F has only four elements and F has only two . |
| 22 | Paris , Milan , Amsterdam , Stuttgart , Lyons , Copenhagen , and , above all in 1992 , Barcelona , are the cities that everybody wants to emulate . |
| 23 | For example the number of times that one or other proton has a and the other then has A would be a number that I shall call unc Numbers unc are similarly defined . |
| 24 | Having stated several times that everything about the Moon is a variable , I 'm not about to comment on its form . |
| 25 | He 'd repeated several more times that everything the boy had said was drunken nonsense . |
| 26 | There was so much space , so much silence , so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present , and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was . |
| 27 | These vowel changes are brought about by rules — not the sort of rules that one might teach to language learners , but more like the instructions that one might build into a machine or write into a computer program . |
| 28 | Whether problems stem from personal shortcomings , from the structure of society or from some combination of these two broad influences , the focus must be on the family and on signs that something is likely to be ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 29 | Always be on the look out for signs that something might be wrong , especially when the weather is cold . |
| 30 | I know my sister , and I know Adam , and I 'm clear in my mind that before you came along there were no outward signs that anything was amiss . |