Example sentences of "[art] [adj] that [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once during the course of a conversation with a fellow teacher she expressed the difficultly that she experiences in ‘ selling membership ’ to class members because she felt that there was ‘ nothing to offer them . ’ |
| 2 | It is the interactional that I examined in the chapter in some detail . |
| 3 | We can rely neither on what it says about the state of the economy nor on the little that it reveals about the state of the public finances . |
| 4 | So it goes beyond the original definition of the conscious that we talked about when we , when we did that . |
| 5 | An analogy might be the lip-reading that we do at an unconscious level . |
| 6 | What you actually do is you pay off the loan gradually over that peri period of twenty years , so you get from that point to that point and it 's , it 's sort of level to start with , you 're paying mainly interest off and not much capital , so when you get a statement from the building society , you still seem to owe virtually the same that you started with . |
| 7 | Even in our progressive and sanguine moods , the utmost that we hoped for was a very gradual and a very tentative improvement . |
| 8 | The best that we seem to be able to say is that biological and psychological categories have tended to contain only a very small minority of offenders ( as well as a significant proportion of non-offenders ) , while sociological categories have contained a large majority of non-offenders ( and by no means all offenders ) . |
| 9 | But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter . |
| 10 | In what remained of the once-great Richardson clan , Sam was the closest that they had to brains . |
| 11 | ‘ Only a few that we know of , ’ said Merymose . |
| 12 | Staff from all over the country took part and here are just a few that we know of : . |
| 13 | And I said , ‘ Well , why did you read it , it 's hardly a secret that I write about sex . ’ |
| 14 | A British undercover agent in one of David Cornwell 's [ John le Carré 's ] novels is so exasperated by platitudes by a superior that he exploded within himself that it was like working for a bloody clergyman . |
| 15 | Another suggested it was produced by special nerve cells in the brain ; a third that it came in units called psychonic impulses , generated when two nerves were in communication . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , all these types of rights contrast fundamentally with the ‘ once-and-for-all ’ rights vested in an individual that we think of as private property . |