Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ) |
| 2 | The national coach will give you some sequences to practise and these usually illustrate some theme that he wants you to work on . |
| 3 | It is into this sonship that he installs us . |
| 4 | ‘ It says in the Daily Mirror that she fancies me , ’ he boasts lightheartedly . |
| 5 | He will fix his eyes on some spot that he thinks he knows and watch it intently as the day fades , hoping to be able to plot any light that may appear later on . |
| 6 | Jung expressed the view that , although recall does in fact exist , what is happening when regression to a previous life appears to be taking place is that the subject is simply tapping into some vast communal memory bank , and it is from this source that he obtains his information . |
| 7 | Before long he will be so out of touch with technical matters that he has nothing new to contribute . |
| 8 | All the men he knows are fathers or grandfathers and it is in that capacity that he knows them . |
| 9 | Thru is ‘ deconstructionist ’ in the additional sense that it places itself in multiple positions within the field of literary discourse . |
| 10 | We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused . |
| 11 | He 's going to need a terrific amount of energy , and he 's going to need it quickly , because he 's got to deal with this very dangerous situation that he finds himself in . |
| 12 | An absolute certainty that no-one wishes you harm . |
| 13 | Philip points out he is in the fortunate position that he loves his work and is currently employed on his most unusual project to date . |
| 14 | Just to convince us that all these things that he tells us about are somehow present , to convince us of the heinousness of what he 's done . |
| 15 | This unpleasant experience was alleviated by the company of his wife , who also brought with her so many domestic items that he says it was almost as comfortable as being at home ! |
| 16 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 17 | But if we are to understand it , and , particularly , if we are to distinguish within it between cynical accommodation and genuine playfulness , we are going to have to go beyond the embarrassingly inappropriate assumption that it has something to do with ‘ Brechtian ’ distanciation or ‘ modernist ’ self-reflexiveness . |
| 18 | At all events we shall not go wrong in assuming that it is not without good reason that he tells us of so impressive a roll call of nationalities on the day of Pentecost ( 2:5–11 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I mean , he 's from the right kind of background and he has more money that he knows what to do with . |
| 20 | In particular , it may foster the inventor 's ill-informed optimism that he has something which can be developed and exploited for commercial gain . |
| 21 | Sometimes you meet a guy with just so much plain humanity that it makes you feel humble . |
| 22 | Terence Davies has apparently emerged from the representation of his social origins smelling of Art , and it is this very concept which mainstream criticism just can not get enough of , for at its best ( its most effective ) it denies the social world at the very moment that it represents it . |
| 23 | Du Caurroy 's Fantasies a III , IV , V et VI parties ( 1610 ) are so old-fashioned — instrumental motets , sometimes with long-note cantus firmus , on plainsong or Huguenot melodies — and so lacking in rhythmic vitality that one suspects they were composed long before their posthumous publication . |
| 24 | Penang 's chief minister , Koh Tsu Koon , is so intent on his high-tech strategy that he says he has been turning away unsuitable investors . |
| 25 | A sport , like a new spouse , can be so infatuated with its glamourous partner that it loses its head . |
| 26 | So the very fact that she observes her price to be higher than the average price level she was originally expecting may make her adjust upwards her expected average price level . |
| 27 | Sometimes it is through a mysterious inner constraint that he makes his presence felt , as when he guided Paul 's evangelistic direction away from the province of Asia in 16:6,7 and towards the hardships and opposition he realised he would have to face if he went up for that last journey to Jerusalem ( Acts 20:22,23 ) . |
| 28 | Brigg has a drawerful of ill-designed print that he calls his ‘ chamber of horrors ’ . |
| 29 | The last passage I 'm going to have time to read comes in the erm speech of Adam erm , not actually speech , the inward soliloquy to Adam , the first thing that he says he says his case is not yet fallen when he sees Eve . |
| 30 | But maybe that is n't such a departure when you consider that falsetto has always been ‘ a sexual mask … the sound of a woman coming from a man … a way to demonstrate to his intended lover that he understands her fears and desires as if he were female himself ( Michael Freedburg ) . |