Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [indef pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I should think it might be quite amusing because it 'll be old forms that nobody has seen before . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She stopped the whirring wipers , wound the window down and smelt greedily the scent of grass and overgrown hedgerows that nobody bothered to trim . |
| 6 | Five different tastes that everyone can share . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No time is given to setting clear objectives that everyone subscribes to . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | At present the toughest part is convincing Latin Americans that anyone could have a surname like ‘ Haythornthwaite ’ ! ’ |
| 11 | Larry , my stepfather , was tired of off-Broadway plays in creaky old theatres that nobody ever came to see . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They 've got a series of almost like ethnic murals that somebody 's done all along . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | … 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 . |
| 19 | Despite official strictures that everybody had to have one , there was no line to his converted nissen-hut home on Dartmoor . |
| 20 | The most obvious signs that someone might be sniffing are : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Whether that is achieved by a woman on this side or the other side of the House , to talk of women gaining promotion as part of a target number is one of the most stupid and fatuous things that anyone could suggest . |
| 23 | First by responding to this catalogue you will be ordering attractive , good quality and unusual gifts that anyone would be delighted to receive . |
| 24 | I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service . |
| 25 | She thanks her lucky stars that none of the parties involved was given to temper tantrums . |
| 26 | Let's move on to the er to the third question there , just any quick points that anybody wants to make erm not necessarily things you talked about , something that occurs to you know perhaps . |
| 27 | For many people a prime symptom of stress is loss of their sense of humour : playfulness is replaced by earnestness or snappiness ; casual jokes that one would normally return in good spirit are felt to be wounding and hurtful . |
| 28 | It is these metaphorical journeys that one sees on the walls of their tombs : the dead sailing the river in search of a promise . |
| 29 | It would challenge young people 's sense of responsibility , he hoped , and show these troubled teenagers that someone trusted and believed in them . |
| 30 | Benjamin acted with all the authority he could muster : displaying Wolsey 's warrants and issuing orders in such harsh tones that everyone we met was soon running about as if the great Cardinal himself had arrived . |