Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not obvious to most people in the later nineteenth century , and the general effect of the Second Law was to encourage the gloomy belief that in time the universe would die the heat death of general tepidity : that the universe would see Victorians and their foreseeable descendants out , its death being many million years away , was little consolation to believers in progress , who saw it all stopping in the distant future . |
| 2 | It seems reasonable to accept the contemporary view that in rural England , albeit with much variation in the pattern between parishes , a significant transfer of income took place towards the poorer members of society . |
| 3 | Before the BDDA annual conference of delegates we would have been willing to risk a small wager that by far the greater number of the deaf in this country found the word " dumb " obsolete , misleading , offensive and any other such adjective you care to mention . |
| 4 | Will he also use this opportunity to give a categorical pledge that under no circumstances will he lift the ceiling on national insurance contributions , because that would , in effect , claw back the extra pay that teachers gained yesterday ? |
| 5 | Nothing , he found , was more effective — as he tried to devise an inner world that at the same time avoided the black hole of dejection — than work , solitary work , work in which one was gladly buried . |
| 6 | But it seems difficult to refute the Soviet contention that in Russia the advance of industrial capitalism , rather than fostering moderation , reformism and concern with purely economic goals , was nourishing an increasingly radical and politically conscious proletariat . |
| 7 | The smell of antiseptic , and the helpless waiting , brought back powerful memories of the visitors ' room two years ago , where the doctor had come to break the mind-numbing news that during a routine operation to remove her appendix her mother had died of heart failure . |
| 8 | However , thanks to the efforts of Lord Dainton , and his rapport with Mrs Thatcher , whose tutor he was at Oxford , we are to get the New Library that in Bentley 's day could not be thought of , though the Victorians created an ideal solution for their day . |
| 9 | The release of his second album , ‘ Hands Free ’ , follows the success of Mona , a hit from his first album which established him as a singer/songwriter but did very little to convince a cynical world that under the suntan there lurked a talented guitarist . |
| 10 | The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man . |