Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiff will plead the most exaggerated meanings that his counsel considers the words will conceivably bear , in order to maximise the insult and humiliation ( and hence the damages ) . |
| 2 | And all these pleasures , these frail joys that her most stringent discipline over the last couple of night-time hours had summoned up for her memory , they were simply not enough . |
| 3 | The connection proved useful as Korn/Ferry was initially strongly dependent on the multinational clients that its American offices supplied . |
| 4 | When he arrived in India in 1926 he told one of his private secretaries that his aim was to govern in such a way as ‘ to keep a contented India in the Commonwealth twenty-five years hence ’ . |
| 5 | He was quoted in West Africa on Aug. 16 as warning newly formed political parties that their activities were still illegal . |
| 6 | The basic problem for the Emperor was that while France needed Britain it was not at all clear to British statesmen that their country had any need of France — except when it suited British interests . |
| 7 | It is a mark of these half-crazed times that my programme of meetings , which once would have been dominated by political and scientific academy briefings , now includes something calling itself the Academy of Entrepreneurship , and an appointment with accountants advising more inward investors . |
| 8 | Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called . |
| 9 | The width of the spotlight 's beam is analogous to the narrow range of electromagnetic frequencies that our eyes can see , or to the narrow range of sizes or times , close to our own size and longevity , that we can imagine . |
| 10 | How could I tell Fatima with her large , trusting brown eyes that her war had become stale news and I had to move on ? |
| 11 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 12 | Indeed , there are moans from some businessmen that his continued tenure in the post is axiomatically linked with the lack of confidence in the Government 's economic strategy . |
| 13 | And fifth , are there enough non-executive directors that their views can not be ignored ? |
| 14 | The province has since been in the forefront of China 's efforts to reassure foreign businessmen that its door will be staying open for ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 15 | It was not until my teenage years that my notions of which history was mine began to be complicated . |
| 16 | It was after Vincent went back to The Hague to collect some belongings that his correspondence with his brother became really acrimonious . |
| 17 | He had heard ( and drunk ) so much in the last few days that his mind was a haze of impressions and conjectures which refused to sort themselves out or lead in any one direction . |
| 18 | There is one passage in which she erm pleads for women not to be kept in such narrow confines , social confines that their matters |
| 19 | Take some of the favourite things that your child likes , mix them together and serve from a warm pot with a ladle . |
| 20 | While some policies contain few features that their opponents can interfere with — laying down , for example , a clear duty to provide a particular service or benefit — others , such as the DHSS commitment to the development of community care for the mentally ill , depend heavily upon the commitments of implementers , and are relatively easily diverted in other directions or even rendered ineffective . |
| 21 | At the least , the order suggests that the archbishop was so out of favour in high quarters that his tenants had risked withholding their money . |
| 22 | At the least , the order suggests that the archbishop was so out of favour in high quarters that his tenants had risked withholding their money . |
| 23 | Timothy Sturdy , 29 , denies eight different charges that his Darlington-based company , Classic Video , supplied counterfeit videos to small video libraries around the country . |
| 24 | At the conference of the Non-Aligned held in Managua in January 1983 the Cuban Foreign Minister , Malmierca , argued that the Falklands War ‘ proved to Latin Americans that their instruments and means of collective defence with the United States , which were supposedly for protection against extrahemispheric powers , are nothing but mechanisms to be used when Washington 's interests are threatened by pro-independence actions in any of our states ’ . |
| 25 | And you got a few bits that your |
| 26 | Meanwhile in a speech to the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants Sir Adrian Cadbury said the view among some critics that his committee 's proposals on non-executive directors were divisive for boards stemmed from a misunderstanding of its terms of reference which were limited to financial aspects and did not touch on the wider responsibility of all directors for general governance . |
| 27 | The authors warn visiting foreign scientists that their presence in the USSR will be used by the KGB to show that Sakharov is forgotten or that his exile is at least accepted . |
| 28 | When Josip Broz Tito , the communist leader of modern Yugoslavia , died in 1980 , plenty of Yugoslavs told foreign friends that their country would come bloodily apart . |
| 29 | It demonstrates the high standards that our apprentices achieve , ’ he added . |
| 30 | Above : Piment tries some berries that her mother Poupee has just been eating . |