Example sentences of "[adj] [that] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The garment is so peculiar that we might dismiss it as a quirk of the rhyton carver 's imagination , but for the fact that it features again on a seal impression from Agia Triadha , where the rhyton also originated . |
| 2 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , pp. 144–5 ) writes of the Temple Tomb as the only certain example of a Minoan royal tomb , but its status is so peculiar that we can not be sure who was buried there , either at the beginning or at the close of its period of use . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it is very peculiar that someone can just give evidence , like Sir Hal Millar , and not be cross-examined on it at all . ’ |
| 4 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 5 | By December it was clear that nothing would happen . |
| 6 | It is clear that nothing can be reliably inferred from the mere fact that a word form has different meaning relations in different contexts , and independent evidence concerning ambiguity or generality is required . |
| 7 | This ‘ conventional ’ behaviour is described with scare quotes because it is not clear that one would be justified in reading into it the constellation of reciprocal beliefs and intentions that someone like Lewis takes as constitutive of conventional behaviour . |
| 8 | Dr P makes it very clear that one must accept that certain pieces of writing are superior to others ; but the criteria for judging superiority are , interestingly , not very specific : |
| 9 | It is clear that one can not give a general rule . |
| 10 | Most recent historical work on the rural economy has involved studies in depth of particular regions or even individual manors , and despite the patchiness of the surviving evidence it is clear that one can not draw hard and fast lines of distinction between regions of arable farming and those of stock-rearing . |
| 11 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 12 | It is clear that one can not own confidential information in the sense that one can own a car . |
| 13 | Graham Strachan , director of business development at Scott Lithgow , said that Trafalgar intended to sell the yard as a going concern : ‘ We are quite clear that we wo n't be selling off bits and pieces . |
| 14 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 15 | In making them available under the terms of an existing contract , we made it clear that we would be concerned about early delivery to Argentina . ’ |
| 16 | In the simple type of quantification that we used , it is clear that we would need to quantify the long-vowel environments separately from the short-vowel ones , as the potential for variation is different in each case . |
| 17 | Notwithstanding our reservations over exporting the impact of the unsustainable demands of Wales and England to these locations , or the likelihood that aggregates companies would choose this option as opposed to taking up old planning permissions , we wish to make it clear that we would be fiercely opposed to any proposal for a super quarry along the coastline of Wales . |
| 18 | Notwithstanding our reservations over exporting the impact of the unsustainable demands of Wales and England to these locations , or the likelihood that aggregates companies would choose this option as opposed to taking up old planning permissions , we wish to make it clear that we would be fiercely opposed to any proposal for a super quarry along the coastline of Wales . |
| 19 | Some people had expressed the view that this trip came too close to the Central Wales Line excursion and it seemed clear that we would not get enough people to justify the expense of a coach . |
| 20 | We made it clear that we would give further consideration to it once the Barber judgment was clear , and that is precisely what we are beginning to do . |
| 21 | In view of the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) , I ought to make it clear that we would very much like to see an investigation of the missing pension funds . |
| 22 | So I have to say to you that whilst I 'm putting these forward , it 's absolutely clear that we would be having adverse comments and criticism er , from the S S I , and that you would be moving into areas that I ca n't recommend to you , but I , I put them forward as obviously illustrations . |
| 23 | Reverting now to spatio-temporal relations , the assumption of their irreducibility to monadic predicates is linked with the assumption that they depict an objective order , and if such relations are taken to depict an objective order , then it is clear that we shall have to assume the possibility of a plurality of biographically distinct points of view , occupied by different percipients , before we can make any significant inferences about the ontological distinguishability of their terms . |
| 24 | Given that it seems clear that we may expect students who are well qualified in traditional terms to achieve relatively high levels of academic achievement , an important measure of success may be the extent to which institutions are able to take students who are not well qualified traditionally and achieve relatively high success rates with these students . |
| 25 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 26 | Peter Rost , the council 's chairman , who is a former Conservative MP and ex-member of the Commons Energy Select Committee , said yesterday : ‘ The council intends to make it clear that we will no longer accept fobbing-off , soothing noises from politicians , regulators and suppliers , the decision makers who should be helping us . ’ |
| 27 | But we have made it clear that we will consider other possibilities provided they are fair to both sides and involve no bogus counting . |
| 28 | This clause makes clear that we will not pay for the cost of replacing any undamaged item or parts of items forming part of a set or suite when damage occurs within a clearly identifiable area or to a specific part . |
| 29 | We and our EC partners have repeatedly made it clear that we will not recognise changes in Yugoslavia 's internal borders unless they are brought about by peaceful negotiation . |
| 30 | In response to the hon. Gentleman 's second question , my hon. Friend the Minister of State , Northern Ireland Office , made it perfectly clear that we will not make any comment whatever on that case while it is proceeding . |