Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Uniface says each of the GUIs are supported by a specific driver that provides applications with all the features of the particular environment .
2 Certainly , you do read the odd story that describes a person behaving in just the way we have outlined .
3 He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen .
4 Drife should not be surprised that many women respond to a strange man with a conditioned response that arises from a long learning experience in a male dominated society .
5 Created in 1879 , the Posts and Telegraphs administration was a junior ministry that occupied a central role in the formulation of communications policy in liaison ( and in turf-wars ( with the Interior , Defence , Foreign , and Colonial Affairs Ministries .
6 It was not just economic weakness that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe .
7 See just , she you said something about going in and ask her , and you said they put it down with that money that went missing and so they did n't put it down until paid it , but we did n't pay it .
8 As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life .
9 He sat back , studying the hologram a moment , conscious of how it waited for him , displaying that unquestioning patience that distinguished the mechanical from the human .
10 ‘ I could n't bear it , that tenderness that came across so like loving .
11 So that bit that goes there and that bit goes rou , put that back in again that 's right
12 But no , it 's only because he reminds me a bit of him , that gloomy bit , that deep bit , that bit that dominated when his head sank into his shoulders and his mouth turned down and the light went from his eyes , that bit that took over when he resisted and turned inwards and moped .
13 But no , it 's only because he reminds me a bit of him , that gloomy bit , that deep bit , that bit that dominated when his head sank into his shoulders and his mouth turned down and the light went from his eyes , that bit that took over when he resisted and turned inwards and moped .
14 And that bit that comes right .
15 Manson 's hand-picked ‘ death squad ’ for this murderous mission was made up of Susan Atkins , Patricia Krenwinkiel , Linda Kasabian ( who would later turn witness for the prosecution at the controversial trial that followed ) and Tex Watson who , when asked by a terrified Frykowski who he was , calmly replied , ‘ I am the devil , and I am here on the devil 's business . ’
16 He now sat slumped in his chair , fate having painted a faintly mocking smile on to his clammy skin that spoke of joy at having outwitted his executioner .
17 He had changed physically but the movement of his body down the carriage for coffee still had that freedom that set him apart from the suited composure of the brief case brigade that filled the train .
18 There is , then , some doubt about the validity of a linear model of economic change that proposes a sequence of labour shifts through the sectors .
19 But , as Sadler shrewdly and significantly observed , it was not merely economic change that gave rise to social and political anxieties , for there were ‘ psychological causes of unrest ’ which were ‘ more subtle and not less powerful ’ .
20 Second , the political bargaining that accompanies the definition of state enterprise objectives provides opportunities for alliances between groups within the state and outside it .
21 ‘ Whose poetry was it ? ’ asked Dexter with a strange tenderness that surprised Blanche .
22 IF you own or hope to buy an 18th or 19th century terraced house or rural cottage that needs doing up , where do you go for advice about historically appropriate restoration methods and techniques ?
23 The most striking change that occurred was with regard to the parties ' respective attitudes towards Court–Country issues .
24 Starts with a wolf-howl and then descends into galactic camp that has none of Betty Boo 's appeal , but all of her ideas ( that 's both of them ) .
25 The solution is not to revert to Army control once again , but rather somehow to achieve a lasting political settlement that denies both insurgents and the paramilitary police their raison d'etre .
26 The agricultural base that had offered wealth and apparent stability to Sussex life was steadily weakened in the course of the eighteenth century .
27 Seen from without , the stately building that fronts the open square is sufficiently imposing ; viewed from within , the place more than fulfils the promise of its exterior .
28 And if you also look the most the the the clearest change that 's happened on the outside of this building , if you look at that window , if you if you follow the edge of the window the original window came all the way down to this point , and then across and up , and this has been all blocked up .
29 Among the hero 's many adventures the twelve labours imposed by Eurystheus are only listed later ; but the regular list corresponds to the choice here and it is likely that it was in fact these twelve carvings at the heart of Greece 's greatest sanctuary that determined the canon .
30 In the narrow field that sloped upwards at the back between scrubby thickets Donald 's rake lay with its teeth in a swathe .
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