Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Activists , educators , campaigners , call them what you will , have a tough task in this country , with an individualized , nuclear-family society reluctant to come to meetings of any sort , and a resistance to being engaged by a message that in the short and medium term questions their lifestyle , material aspirations , and culturally-engrained assumptions that Our Way of Life is best . |
| 2 | So skinny , wasted legs and narrow hips that his genitalia showed gigantic . |
| 3 | He was a man who had started out in his career simple and full of hope , but his life had been so marked by violent and terrible happenings that his character was now seamed and rocky like a mountain face which had been opened up by movements of the earth , then partly sealed by lava flows . |
| 4 | Dry steam coal is becoming a rare commodity and the Snowdon Mountain Railway is suffering more than most due to the special steam raising and burning qualities that its 800mm gauge rack locos demand . |
| 5 | I hope that the true and forceful points that my hon. Friend made were heard by Opposition Members and that they will take note of the success of British industry . |
| 6 | They did not understand , or gave no thought to , the ethnic , national and ideological conflicts that their arrangements would create within Germany , nor the internal and external targets Germany would come to identify as the causes of its misfortune . |
| 7 | IN SPITE OF Tuesday 's lively sale of sheep quota at Lanark , top price £46 , doubts remain among some farmers and other marts that their colleagues may have jumped the gun , writes Fordyce Maxwell . |
| 8 | increase goes to arts projects — the museums and galleries improvement schemes and other proposals that his Department funds — and is not caught up in too much bureaucracy . |
| 9 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 10 | David 's vision of turning the Tambopata Reserve Project into the most important tropical university in the world and a model of development for the protection of the rainforest in Peru , if not the world , hinged on being able to persuade government and local interests that their benefits did not lie with the destruction of the forest . |