Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King 's criticism was believed to be in response to recent Saudi demands that he publicly apologize for Jordan 's position in the Gulf war . |
| 2 | Melanie was worried that this would upset Stan , but he was already giving clear signs that he just wanted to avoid conflict . |
| 3 | In the Qur'an , which is the most sacred text of Moslems , God is more often described in terms of generalised epithets that we normally associate with human life — for instance , Hearer , Keeper , Guide and Pardoner . |
| 4 | Moreover , it is frequently pointed out that the early Christian definitions of faith did not mean by the Greek and Latin words that we commonly translate as ‘ person ’ exactly what we would mean by ‘ person ’ today . |
| 5 | Old habits and traditions die hard and work will be needed to be undertaken to convince some parents that they now have a tree choice of school . |
| 6 | Rather than setting unrealistically high expectations that you then fail to realise , or low expectations that become a self-fulfilling prophecy , take time out to sit and visualise a situation going well . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got a few pieces that I really like . |
| 8 | He had so many appreciative friends in very high places that he probably considered himself safe . |
| 9 | There are some things that we simply have to … let go . ’ |
| 10 | This sort of argument is so commonly used in the social sciences that it almost passes unnoticed ; but as soon as one stops to think about it one is faced with the problem in hand . |
| 11 | Played by people who keep so busy with minute details that they always seem harassed . |
| 12 | I assure hon. Members that we readily acknowledge the strength of feeling about that aspect of Sunday trading and will take it fully into account when we draw up proposals for the reform of the law . |
| 13 | Thus , it is to sectoral differences that we now turn , to illustrate how change has been occurring at different rates and with different implications for governments . |
| 14 | Many villages , especially in Persia , which have long been associated with highly sophisticated work , have either ceased weaving altogether or produce so few examples that they now have only an historic relevance to the contemporary scene . |
| 15 | ‘ The press was always very kind to us , giving us so many free editorials that we never had to pay a penny for advertising . |
| 16 | Larry , my stepfather , was tired of off-Broadway plays in creaky old theatres that nobody ever came to see . |
| 17 | He would not accept their continual bleatings that they just wanted to ‘ be in a band and make great records . ’ |
| 18 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 19 | Meaning may be wrapped in so many layers of words or unnecessary phrases that it almost disappears . |
| 20 | The enclosure turned the Broyle into the landscape of ploughland bisected by long straight roads that it still remains . |
| 21 | Slowly the exterior background settings for religious paintings , the major activity of artists in the seventeenth century , took on more detailed contours and established geographic as well as topographic influences that we still see in some forms of landscape painting today . |
| 22 | It is only when the private world of fantasy becomes a hideaway from real relationships that our personally constructed blueprints fail to serve their proper purpose . |
| 23 | So far lost to sanity were many of the Dark Elves that they readily agreed . |
| 24 | The secret policemen made themselves so hated by ordinary Iraqis that they now depend on the president 's protection almost as much as he depends on theirs . |
| 25 | It is to the credit of such workers that they rarely feel animosity towards a member of the Royal Family who puts on a designer frock , gets into a chauffeur-driven car , spends a couple of hours meeting the afflicted and , as a result , has her picture on the front page of most national newspapers with the word caring prefacing every mention of her name . |
| 26 | It is not individual qualities that we ever have occasion to predicate . |
| 27 | Perhaps I should start with one of the most colourful characters that we ever had in the Pathfinder Force — unhappily now dead — Tommy Blair of No 83 Squadron . |
| 28 | But if those forms of capital are n't available then the business has to raise capital by some other means and this is very often done by liquidated assets that they currently hold and releasing the capital for the new project . |
| 29 | He clearly understood that the postmodern audience is radically different from previous audiences in that it brings to the marketplace a set of ideal interests that are no longer connected with meanings , but in which demand has become increasingly oriented to detached , shallow , and meaningless signifiers that he obligingly produced . |
| 30 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |