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

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1 Oh , here we got the the lists that Connie gave me ,
2 the lists that Connie gave me ,
3 He slid up against the pillows , looking so devastatingly sexy with his rumpled hair and heavy eyes that Fran felt her heart jolt to a stop .
4 Nor were the books that Edward showed me the kind of thing I would normally have read — not , at least , as anything more than a casual browse among the dustier nooks of human eccentricity .
5 It was n't until she turned away from the elms that Artemis realized she was not alone .
6 After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait .
7 But such was the power of those two softly spoken words that Ronni found her head jerking up to look at the speaker , barely aware of her brother 's muttered response as he hoisted her cases up on to the jetty .
8 Genes directly dictate the manufacture of molecules called proteins , and it is through their proteins that genes exert their effects on the phenotype of the body .
9 Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like …
10 Following repeated demands that China open its markets or face sanctions , the office of the United States Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills on Oct. 10 opened investigations under Section 301 of the 1988 Trade Act into China 's trade barriers [ see also p. 38340 ] .
11 I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead .
12 She seldom wore the pretty dresses or smart suits that Scarlet bought her , preferring her rags .
13 Well , certainly we believe that there can be all sorts of erm techniques that can be very useful , like communications skills and assertiveness , but our understanding is also that it is not only about the skills that people have it 's also about the understanding behind those skills .
14 One of the many dimensional technologies that IMC court us for . ’
15 Because of the peculiar restricted hours that banks open I am unable to visit the branch where the account is held and any over-the-counter transactions — usually only 2 per year — have to be made at another branch .
16 In the poetry of Mallarmé the words ‘ mean ’ what a French dictionary tells us they mean , but they also take on the private and idiosyncratic meanings that Mallarmé gives them .
17 What is common to all is that as symbols of excellence precious substances embody and display values and it is by entertaining and expressing values that men declare their identity as human beings rather than as mere primates .
18 The evangelist who tells us three times that Jesus contracted his perspective to concentrate on Jerusalem and that at Jerusalem the disciples had to await the coming of the Spirit that would equip them for mission , ends his second volume with a triple reminder that this good news , beginning from Jerusalem ( Luke 24:47 ) reaches Rome ( 19:21 ; 23:11 ; 27:24 ) .
19 Celia served the cold cucumber soup hot , and burnt the steak even though Christina had told her numerous times that Stephen liked his steak rare .
20 He had put away his notes and now talked so entertainingly about earlier visits to the city and about its importance during the Middle Ages that Merrill found herself disarmed and interested .
21 We now know that opinion polls are almost meaningless except as a rough guide to the sort of views that people believe they ought to express in public .
22 The subject under scrutiny in the 1990/91 survey was exporting to Japan and in particular the barriers that companies felt they faced in either entering the Japanese market or expanding their level of existing business .
23 And he stresses to parents that teachers share their concerns and are aware of the confusion surrounding the new system .
24 Winds blow as they should , in the directions that physics tells us they should , at the right speed and in the proper season .
25 Either way , said Colin , the areas that LASMO has its eye on all have the potential to bring further success and prosperity to the company .
26 It was also in the Celtic countries that Romanization celebrated its most truculent triumph .
27 It is important to note that it is on the basis of the self-evident cultural value of these texts that Bateson develops his sense of the wider relationship between culture and democracy .
28 The rise of public concern about the environment has done most to hasten a realisation among Conservatives that Thatcherism has its limitations .
29 It was precisely along such lines that Bukharin advanced his objections to Preobrazhensky 's attempt to remove the state and its policies from theoretical analysis , even at the high level of abstraction that had been suggested .
30 It is impossible to indicate all the humanly important matters that literature gives us knowledge of … .
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