Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About a quarter of a mile later they were still with me , and it became clear that choosing between dignity and entertaining the village was no longer an option . |
| 2 | Much of the indebtedness of these middle-income countries arose through borrowings in private sector capital markets , mainly the euro-currency markets , and although it was feared that the banks involved were seriously at risk it is becoming clear that rescheduling of debt by the banks with the debtor countries has been possible . |
| 3 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 4 | The glare dimmed and outlines of roofs and trees and angles at street junctions , lampposts , signs , doorways , scaffolding and cranes — too molten to look up at at two in the afternoon — calmed into focus , became distinct against the astounding pure clarity of the sky , and later became so sharp and clear that looking at them was like a note you could not hear but only sense within the ear by some change in vibration . |
| 5 | Nor is it clear that support for proportional representation would win votes : in the ITN exit poll , 52 per cent said they preferred the present system , including 45 per cent of those who voted Labour . |
| 6 | It is , as suggested earlier , becoming clear that support for applied research is more attractive to funding bodies than support for fundamental research . |
| 7 | As the implications of another disastrous election defeat begin to be analysed , it is clear that calls for the Labour Party to embrace PR as a way of breaking the Tory stranglehold are gaining in strength . |
| 8 | How far Anselm had travelled along this road , and how much further he would still travel , are questions to which an answer must be sought in the reign of Henry I. But it is clear that Anselm in exile was beginning to see events , if not through Hildebrandine eyes , at least with shades of Hildebrandine colour . |
| 9 | Comparison between studies is therefore difficult ; although all make it clear that caring for a dementia sufferer can be extremely stressful . |
| 10 | The Lindop report made it fairly clear that safeguards with regard to access and illegal use are needed . |
| 11 | It is now clear that direct through trains from the North-East to the continent will not run until two years after the Channel Tunnel opens in 1993 . |
| 12 | While it is clear that compounds with antithrombin or antiplatelet properties may enhance and sustain the action of thrombolytic agents , their optimum use and potential haemorrhagic side-effects remain to be explored . |
| 13 | It is so clear that to look into it takes your breath away : there is no sense of depth and the rocks could be two or twenty metres away . |
| 14 | Similarly , in the need for institutional change study it was clear that need for change has two distinct components : the deficiency level of some institutional subsystem , and its importance to the system as a whole . |
| 15 | Such materials are however not part of the plant as defined in the policy exception makes clear that damage to such materials is not covered . |
| 16 | Will your cooker stand the strain of the festive season and all the extra entertaining that comes with it ? |
| 17 | And it 's only in the minority of cases where things go wrong that come to the attention at the Trading Standards Department . |
| 18 | Mr Symington 's campaign was mildly cleaner until a recent commercial that finished with a picture of Mr Goddard being locked behind bars . |
| 19 | Mm , not the something that 's sort of , funny that happened by mistake , something that was rather planned in that case |
| 20 | The show gathered momentum quickly and finished on a high that lasted through the party held afterwards at the neighbouring Holiday Inn . |
| 21 | It described the high that ensues from smoking crack ( 'Crack is both spacey and intense' ) and the downs that follow ; it told his readers how he bought it and what the morning after was like . |
| 22 | The women are shutting themselves off , choosing the high that comes from writing instead of accepting their place as bearers and nurturers of children . |
| 23 | Produces an immediate high that lasts for about ten minutes followed by a deep low and often instant addiction |
| 24 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 25 | The more light that falls on the eyes , the more the pupils contract to vertical slits ; the less light there is , the more they open up to round , black pools . |
| 26 | Beauty inside her , and the beauty was light that came in sizes which spanned the galaxies or spun inside electrons . |
| 27 | He had seen pride and admiration in her eyes , and love — and that protectiveness of the young for the old that came with love . |
| 28 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 29 | Should languages have diverged sufficiently radically in our evolutionary past , and should cerebral organization have adapted constantly to the need of parsing , it is quite possible that counterexamples to the claim of eventual competence might be found . |
| 30 | It is possible that climbs on the subsidiary slabs still remain . |