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 | ‘ 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 . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it . |
| 6 | Eudo had replied through swollen , bloody lips that he knew nothing , so the questioners changed tack . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Though he showed no very clear signs that he realized it , the Tsar had crossed the Rubicon , carrying the nobility with him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | I shot a scene on the top of the Old Bailey that everybody thought I could never do . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Salmon have been shown to be capable of the necessary olfactory discrimination , but the most direct evidence that they use their sense of smell comes from experiments , of the kind first performed by W. J. Wisby and A. D. Hasler , in which the salmon 's olfactory sense was impaired . |
| 18 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 19 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 20 | It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke . |
| 21 | You ken when there , there are , this , this old Mary that I tell you about er , she 'd had smallpox when she was young , she used to be a herring gutter . |
| 22 | It may be because the juniors act independently with equal quantities of youthful enthusiasm and historical ignorance that they get themselves into situations that the dinosaurs have seen before . |
| 23 | As the young Emperor he had rebuilt the Red Fort in Agra in a new architectural style that he had himself helped to develop . |
| 24 | ‘ It says in the Daily Mirror that she fancies me , ’ he boasts lightheartedly . |
| 25 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 26 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |
| 27 | There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name . |
| 28 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 29 | Before long he will be so out of touch with technical matters that he has nothing new to contribute . |
| 30 | This contrasts greatly with another professional publication that I receive which is stodgy and insists on corresponding via an employer 's address . |