Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I think recognizes a possibility , by no means a probability , but a possibility that Paul might move away from home and the more real possibility that in due course that Mr and Mrs might be unable to bear their part further as carers . |
| 2 | IT WAS a strange coincidence that Harry Mead should write about the Northern Ireland situation on the very day that one of the worst atrocities in recent years occurred ( Echo January 17 ) . |
| 3 | Of all the ways to commit a murder , is n't it a strange coincidence that Angy was stabbed in the throat , just like she was in the portrait ? ’ |
| 4 | Or is it the merest coincidence that Kyle is sitting back in his chair , with the receiver to his ear , stroking the bald patch on the back of his head as I explain my business ? |
| 5 | In the poetry of Mallarmé the words ‘ mean ’ what a French dictionary tells us they mean , but they also take on the private and idiosyncratic meanings that Mallarmé gives them . |
| 6 | First he looked through the typed notes that Diane had done for him . |
| 7 | There has been an uncanny duplication of the pre-election economic chaos that Argentina experienced in May . |
| 8 | Ken Tyson recreates the advanced projects that Japan was working on before the atomic bombs brought World War Two to a close . |
| 9 | Yeah , well he 's certainly prepared to do er , make a few unorthodox field placements and that was a very strange field that Lawrence had . |
| 10 | ‘ We therefore conclude that there was de facto , albeit voidable contract , between the owners and Ballay ; that it was by virtue of that contract that Ballay took possession of the goods ; that accordingly the transfer of the goods to him was with the consent and express authority of the owner and that accordingly there was no lack of authorisation and no appropriation . |
| 11 | We therefore conclude that there was a de facto , albeit voidable contract , between the owners and Ballay ; that it was by virtue of that contract that Ballay took possession of the goods ; that accordingly the transfer of the goods to him was with the consent and express authority of the owner and that accordingly there was no lack of authorisation and no appropriation . |
| 12 | Clinton 's eyes and Bush 's tales The economic policies that Bill Clinton and George Bush have announced seem to rely too much on old measures that have failed the US economy in the past ; can they work this time ? |
| 13 | It also meant reassuring West European countries worried about a unified Germany that America intended to maintain troops at the heart of the continent . |
| 14 | No , it 's not er , it 's so much I mean , he 's at work all day , and he works all bloody hours that God sent , when they want , when they got down , |
| 15 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 16 | There is an unusual small catmint ( Nepeta phylloclamys ) next to some tiny lilies that grow only six inches tall , and a viola on a tall stem that E A Bowles wrote about . |
| 17 | It was the glossiest , darkest hair that Ronni had ever seen . |
| 18 | The irony : it is because of that protection that Honda came to Swindon . |
| 19 | How to win a vicious guerrilla war without compromising the moral and political values that France claimed to represent ? |
| 20 | This meant addressing various specific requests to the Turks , telling them what the consequences of refusal would be , and informing the major European courts that Russia was giving the Ottoman Empire a last chance . |
| 21 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 22 | It was only with the greatest difficulty that Peter could imagine the mechanics that must have led to his own conception . |
| 23 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 24 | We should be providing leadership in the new economic institutions that Europe will need . |
| 25 | May I say how welcome is the strong support that Great Britain has given to the Baltic states ? |
| 26 | However , he held out little hope that China would increase the number of directly elected Legco seats . |
| 27 | So , for whom is Belfast working ? — surely there is little hope that West Belfast will ever really work until the ‘ hidden agenda ’ is acknowledged and changed ! |
| 28 | As Hugh Paddick recalls , he waited for every possible noise that Ken could produce — and it went on and on — and then there was silence . |
| 29 | But he also accepted that economics in turn influenced culture ; it was the version of Marxism which saw culture as a mere ‘ reflection ’ of the economic base that Weber was concerned to refute . |
| 30 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I 'm uttering a private prayer that Laura 's children will be on their best behaviour for you . |