Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should think it might be quite amusing because it 'll be old forms that nobody has seen before . |
| 2 | There was so much space , so much silence , so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present , and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was . |
| 3 | I know my sister , and I know Adam , and I 'm clear in my mind that before you came along there were no outward signs that anything was amiss . |
| 4 | Even when our bodies give us very clear signals that something is wrong , we will hardly ever take responsibility for any problems that we may incur . |
| 5 | Bromley Challener said that he found it inconceivable , nay incomprehensible that so many local people could stand by and watch two courageous policemen set upon by rogues , and do nothing while these same officers received such grievous wounds that one had since died and the other would be incapacitated for months to come . |
| 6 | She stopped the whirring wipers , wound the window down and smelt greedily the scent of grass and overgrown hedgerows that nobody bothered to trim . |
| 7 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 8 | She was worried about her husband ; it had been obvious for the past few days that something was preying on his mind . |
| 9 | Five different tastes that everyone can share . |
| 10 | In radio broadcasting a small number of sonic entities suffice for the expression of all artistic thoughts ; the gramophone and the various mechanical instruments are evolving such clear sonorities that one will be able to write much less heavily instrumented pieces for them . |
| 11 | No time is given to setting clear objectives that everyone subscribes to . |
| 12 | right , popcorn starts off as little , like little brown seedy things and when it gets heated up it all pops up into fluffy white stuff , those little brown bits that nobody ate were the hard little bead things that did n't pop up , sometimes they do n't pop up you see |
| 13 | At present the toughest part is convincing Latin Americans that anyone could have a surname like ‘ Haythornthwaite ’ ! ’ |
| 14 | Many constitutional lawyers have thought that the respect in which the problem differs under the constitution of the United Kingdom is that if a power of legislation be denied to Parliament in a particular respect , then an intolerable hiatus would exist in the legislative power — there would be some laws that nobody could enact . |
| 15 | Larry , my stepfather , was tired of off-Broadway plays in creaky old theatres that nobody ever came to see . |
| 16 | or if on the few occasions that someone gets married , they hold a night . |
| 17 | There are several such subgroups that one can easily explore : for example , F has only four elements and F has only two . |
| 18 | And yet the two were so different in so many other crucial respects that one can not but suspect something else to have been involved — something which the four issues listed above served to mask for posterity . |
| 19 | While they may not alter the actual risks that something will happen , they at least inspire the feeling that such events are not entirely outside the hunter 's control . |
| 20 | They 've got a series of almost like ethnic murals that somebody 's done all along . |
| 21 | " You should just see her , you ca n't imagine , you would have to see her to know why she chose it , " and all the time , as she spoke , some more assured , sophisticated account underran her words , silently , in her own mind , an account by some other girl , some girl who could wear such garments , and laugh at them , and explain them , and not suffer — some girl so far above such things that nothing could pull her down . |
| 22 | There is also a simple desire to enhance one 's own well-being by widening the contrast with another 's distress ; and this too attracts towards his viewpoint , since it is only in awareness from other personal or temporal viewpoints that one 's well-being is experienced as relative arousing envy of another 's happiness or nostalgia for one 's own in the past . |
| 23 | THE OXFORD BOOK OF APHORISMS ed by John Gross Oxford , £6.99 APHORISMS in the post-Johnsonian sense of ‘ a short pithy statement containing a truth of general import ’ are verbal successes that everyone strives for and few achieve , as Thoreau said , and John Gross here quotes , ‘ A perfectly healthy sentence is extremely rare . ’ |
| 24 | What I will write here will be in a language most will understand and , wherever possible , I have thrown out complex biochemical concepts , trying to translate them into simple concepts that everyone will understand . |
| 25 | Part of this problem seemed to stem from the fundamental assumption of such theories that everyone is , initially at least , conventional ( the opposite of the assumption of classical criminology ) . |
| 26 | … when highly stringent controls are imposed upon a study , the nature of the control tends to force the methods of presentation into such similar formats that one can only expect the " no significant differences " that are in fact found . |
| 27 | Despite official strictures that everybody had to have one , there was no line to his converted nissen-hut home on Dartmoor . |
| 28 | The most obvious signs that someone might be sniffing are : |
| 29 | So you have to beware of blind alleys like that ; from personal experience , there are loads of these styles that no-one has ever asked me to play . ’ |
| 30 | The thing reportedly could n't find its critical paths and gave off false signals that everything was hunky-dory when it was n't . |