Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [that] [vb base] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This afternoon that put them on environment minister Michael Howard 's hit list . |
| 2 | got a funny smell that smoke you know |
| 3 | It says in this paper that last they could only |
| 4 | People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life . |
| 5 | Electronic man attending to the high singing voices from another star that compliment him , soothe him , accept his duty . |
| 6 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 7 | What then , are the significant features of British history that help us understand the contemporary political system and the political culture . |
| 8 | Anything would have been better than this ice-cold contempt that cut her to the bone . |
| 9 | As the tale is told , it was our historical imperial taste that set us up for our indulgent role in the money boom of the last 30 years . |
| 10 | They may also lose the generous donations from the European Community that enable them to pay what they owe abroad . |
| 11 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 12 | Rainwater , driven off the highway , fell in a solid wall that cut them off from any view of the outside world . |
| 13 | She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap . |
| 14 | There are four interacting systems within the organism 's black box that enable it to function effectively . |
| 15 | The mechanisms of the upper atmosphere and the deep sea that cause it to spoil so many Larin Christmas times are still unknown ; but there is beguiling evidence that whenever El Nin-o appears in the Pacific , so the monsoon rains in India are perilously sparse , the winters in the continental USA are unusually harsh , and there is a further episode of drought in that wretched quarter of Africa known as the Sahel . |
| 16 | The former included in its news report a remark from one analyst that Do It All would ‘ never ’ make a profit , but reserved most of its acidity for its Questor column . |
| 17 | she said oh yes you will , then she said to me I 'm sorry to tell you you did n't make , she said you made exc , but she said I do n't want you to feel erm disgruntled she said because er , you done a fabulous interview , the only thing that let you down was of lack of experience , so I said well you 're never gon na get any cos you , nobody let's you in , they do n't open the door |
| 18 | That said , the end result is unique and if it 's computer art for its own sake that interest you , this package is a must . |
| 19 | In the hunt for both markets and resources , managers invest to create three basic kinds of new advantage that make it more difficult for others to compete . |
| 20 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |
| 21 | It had been in his eyes when he lay on the bed staring rigidly at the ceiling , a terrifying , heart-rending pain that cut her to the bone . |
| 22 | Even the WBC , the governing body that insist they 'll now give their title to Lewis , would have been been appeased by such a compromise . |
| 23 | The next point that upset him was that I said that unlike the American President , the Prime Minister was relieved of a great deal of official ceremonial by the Queen and Prince Philip . |
| 24 | Yet it is not just his commitments with the Royal Ballet that hold him up , it is also his unusually intense way of making a work . |