Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister have made clear that we in Britain reject the idea of a federal superstate . |
| 2 | In 1981 , for example , Professor William Baxter , in Accounting Standards — Boon or Curse ? ( in Accounting and Business Research ) , made it clear that he at least did not consider that uniform measurement rules were a boon . |
| 3 | And that is why we are now taking this direct route of saying , that policy and resources , as the policy making body of this council , should have some input to make sure that we in the planning committee are not the situation on a planning application when instead we deal with the moral issue of turning away people who need homes . |
| 4 | Councillor Bookbinder was his opponent at the last election , if I am not mistaken , and I am sure that he at least doubled my hon. Friend 's majority . |
| 5 | The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is not unlikely that he at some point faced armed resistance in the Fens , as the Liber Eliensis mentions a siege of Ely . |
| 7 | The work being too demanding and impossible for them to cope with or so undemanding that they under achieve becoming bored or disaffected . |
| 8 | I was pleased that he at once took to the idea . |
| 9 | So I thought it was nice that we in the Women 's Guild declared Women 's Lib this year and held our own . |