Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today .
2 So far removed was it , both in time and in temper , from the realities of a large city parish and the growing bewilderment and tribulation that the first two decades of the new century had visited upon its inhabitants that his birthplace and its memories became as insubstantial as the tales of Cuchullain and the Red Branch Knights that he had read about in school .
3 And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course .
4 but that does n't mean to say that you can for example you could become build up these Chairman skills that you 've got okay .
5 Jack was puzzled at Johnnie 's sudden change in behaviour and although initially he reasoned that his colleague must be troubled with a domestic problem , he could not forget Johnnie 's parting words that he intended to leave the box for good .
6 But the problem is that they may not be able to deal adequately with operating systems and computer environments that they do n't know and are not allowed to market ; especially given the financial position many of them are in .
7 But the problem is that they may not be able to deal adequately with operating systems and computer environments that they do n't know and are not allowed to market ; especially given the financial position many of them are in .
8 And we got the union to er all all they did was to help us , was to pay for the text books that we had .
9 All it 's saying there is , if you do find something from erm other bits of the text books that we have n't covered in lectures , bung it it .
10 Thomas 's house , which he could barely keep up , was run mostly on the income from a small chain of modern toy shops that he had built up for his wife over the years .
11 They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living .
12 Here are twelve talk tactics that we use to gain control :
13 the dictionary words that you have to remember
14 Use your own artillery to soften up the enemy units that you wish to attack .
15 In September 1989 Chadli announced the postponement of local elections , originally scheduled for December , following complaints from the opposition parties that they had not had enough time to prepare for them .
16 The only money they put in to the chief executives and their two yearly pay re review performances that they get , for cutting other people 's wages or contracting Health Services and for somebody to have to travel that distance for a , to die , is absolutely appalling and it 's a disgrace .
17 The reason that we 're gon na produce biological science quizzes is they 're , it 's from your feedback evaluations that you do n't get enough biological science .
18 Nicola , you suffered some of the side effects that we 've been hearing about tonight , and then things got really bad .
19 But this is what he had to say about one of the side effects that he noted .
20 Could I firstly start by thanking those delegates who after Congress yesterday have expressed support about the two rule changes that we lost and to give some encouragement to new delegates here that even if you get up here and you lose it , there 's some one hell of a lot of support out there on the floor .
21 My Lords I , I , I , I , it may be just a total inadequacy of my dwindling intellectual powers that I find that extremely difficult to follow !
22 For example , I have found in my own reading research that a specialist bibliography entitled Readers and Library Users , by Martin Ward , has been very helpful in making me aware of research studies that I had not come across before .
23 Although excess zinc may interfere with the absorption of iron and vice versa , it is unlikely that the low µg levels of trace metals that we have shown in gastric juice affect the absorption of exogenous trace metals .
24 erm We 've had the two concept meetings for on track and great way too and basically I 'm going to do copy by tomorrow and then next week we can look at them , look at the copy , for both on track and and the stock dates that I 've got are the twenty first of August for both of them .
25 The British and US governments have told their aid agencies that they see aid projects as a source of export orders .
26 And do you know those advert features that they do in the States , they 're like sort of like half hour adverts , like they 're like shows but they 're like an advert
27 Can you tell me about the light fittings that you bought when you first got married .
28 ‘ The administration files that I kept , some of the convicts ’ files . ’
29 Yes , I I do n't think that the this is bigoted as you think though in getting that kind of letter , I mean it seems , er that the civil service er recruit on that basis every year , and er , there is no guarantee if you get through the , the various screening bits that you do actually end up with a job , because that depends on vacancies coming up .
30 ‘ Mr Ashdown would be better concentrating on the basic issues that are of concern to the electorate rather than perpetually engaging in imagined card games that he thinks he would like to play on Friday morning . ’
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