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 | 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 . |
| 9 | How could I tell Fatima with her large , trusting brown eyes that her war had become stale news and I had to move on ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And fifth , are there enough non-executive directors that their views can not be ignored ? |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | It was not until my teenage years that my notions of which history was mine began to be complicated . |
| 14 | There is one passage in which she erm pleads for women not to be kept in such narrow confines , social confines that their matters |
| 15 | Take some of the favourite things that your child likes , mix them together and serve from a warm pot with a ladle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Timothy Sturdy , 29 , denies eight different charges that his Darlington-based company , Classic Video , supplied counterfeit videos to small video libraries around the country . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It demonstrates the high standards that our apprentices achieve , ’ he added . |
| 23 | There were other letters , tied together also , old letters that his mother had written in 1954 , and in a stained buff envelope there were some his father had written to her . |
| 24 | But she was being battered by so many conflicting emotions that her brain felt numb . |
| 25 | At each antenatal visit , there are several standard checks that your doctor or midwife will use to keep track of your progress . |
| 26 | Do the longer-term contracts that my hon. Friend 's statement envisages , which presumably depend on the longer-term view , take the prospects of a Mersey barrage any further ? |
| 27 | on tiny objects that our tutor 'd brought , |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman appears not to understand the vast opportunities that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has announced today and the profits that Scotland is getting . |
| 29 | It is only when the private world of fantasy becomes a hideaway from real relationships that our personally constructed blueprints fail to serve their proper purpose . |
| 30 | Without him in the frame as a serious bidder she had no real fears that her father would decide to sell . |