Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a strange coincidence that he made his final sailing to America on the day that his closest friend , Mr Huddlestone , was buried . |
| 2 | What am I saying as we sit here talking about this rather strange difficulty that we find ourselves in ? |
| 3 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 4 | Was Daff pleased with that watch that you got her ? |
| 5 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 6 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 7 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 8 | I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it . |
| 9 | Eudo had replied through swollen , bloody lips that he knew nothing , so the questioners changed tack . |
| 10 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 11 | Saint Basil was so enchanted by this selfless action that he concluded his comments with the words ‘ If things seen are so lovely , what must things unseen be ? ’ |
| 12 | I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has . |
| 13 | Though he showed no very clear signs that he realized it , the Tsar had crossed the Rubicon , carrying the nobility with him . |
| 14 | Sure enough , Marc quirked his brow and asked , ‘ You intend to stick to this story that she knew nothing of your financial prospects ? ’ |
| 15 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
| 16 | And I 'll go through some strengths that we feel they have and the monopoly obviously is one of the er major strengths . |
| 17 | As has been suggested , it was particularly the perceived threat to the importance of organised religion that they represented which galvanized Mrs Whitehouse and others into action . |
| 18 | Or stood in despair as your children big or little , carry on ignoring your repeated demands that they stop whatever undesirable thing it is that they are doing ? |
| 19 | One thing said in support of the idea that we take effects to be probable events , and , more particularly , said against the analysis expounded in this chapter that we take them to be necessitated events , is relevant enough , although likely to be disdained by the high-minded . |
| 20 | On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 21 | I shot a scene on the top of the Old Bailey that everybody thought I could never do . |
| 22 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 23 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 24 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 25 | Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously . |
| 26 | Despite some criticisms that it made him look like Michael Foot , it was a media success . |
| 27 | Eisenhower commented in June that the British were so incensed by this question that he felt they would prefer to lose the oil , even to the USSR , rather than admit defeat . |
| 28 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 29 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 30 | The national coach will give you some sequences to practise and these usually illustrate some theme that he wants you to work on . |