Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 There are few prisoners that I know of , and a hundred people live there , including two or three who are official security guards .
2 So why do n't we reply to the people who put this suggestion that in reprinting it 'll be taken into account but there are some reasons that we ca n't follow it completely and that , two chief of which are different , where colour is used for coding and erm , secondly what Richard has just said .
3 Is that on the cards , or has Unesco got some rules that he is going to enforce after all ?
4 There must be some rules that you can follow er .
5 It was a perfect day of hot sun with a light following wind , one of the few times that we were able to sunbathe .
6 and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous
7 There was so much space , so much silence , so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present , and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was .
8 So we 've got some examples here of some patterns that we want to learn using the N tuple method and tuple and tuple .
9 There are few secrets that you can keep from her .
10 A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way .
11 I shall not , however , let my hon. Friend hold me back during the few minutes that I shall use to unbridle myself .
12 She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words .
13 Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move .
14 In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet .
15 In order not to bore my readers , I have left the subject alone for the past six months , but with the start of a new summer season approaching in Britain , it is perhaps time to take up some of the issues again ; for I see few signs that there is any change of heart and certainly no sign of a change of direction .
16 People embraced and wept , promising to stay in touch , only to realise in some cases that they had no addresses to exchange .
17 It we further remark the way sexual difference is oft en presented within psychoanalysis as unavoidable and ineluctably fraught with pain , so much so in some cases that it warrants description as a tragic ontology , it becomes tempting to dismiss it as an expression of existential Angst suitably dressed in pretentious intellectual rigour and elegant abstraction , and , as such ( some might add ) , the epitome of psychoanalysis itself .
18 The legends are screen-printed on , that 's one better than stick-on , but so badly done in some cases that it 's a toss up as to which is the worst method !
19 There are some cases that you simply can not investigate properly without an engineer 's report .
20 Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called .
21 ‘ I 've made some contacts that I can follow up over the next couple of weeks .
22 Do you have a rota system where if maybe six have got onto an appliance and there 's another fire comes up in a few hours that they can not turn ut again , or is it just a matter of whoever gets there first again ?
23 Many thanks , Vic , both for stepping in when a gap had appeared in our programme , and for providing a stimulating look at an area most of us had n't seen , and indeed some views that we now never shall see .
24 Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education .
25 And I 'll go through some strengths that we feel they have and the monopoly obviously is one of the er major strengths .
26 unnamed that is not true and I do agree with Mr that when we make a decision to close some homes that they should be named to avoid the terrible indecision which exists at the moment .
27 ‘ When she put out a few signals that she — well , fancied me , you can guess how I felt .
28 I had few worries that she would suddenly take an interest in American history , but she might notice something out of place and the combination lock looked much more sophisticated than it actually was .
29 It 's , it 's erm I think it 's quite interesting cos it 's a different style , in a sense it 's just setting out some goals that they want to achieve but not really giving any clear instruction of how you can achieve those goals .
30 It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp .
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