Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I impress on my hon. Friend that in Plymouth we are tired of waiting what seems like years for land to be released ? |
| 2 | I agree with my hon. Friend that in the past the weakness when farmers have got together has been the quality of marketing and management that they bring to a project . |
| 3 | Yet it is my firm conviction that at the peak of his career at Loughborough House , my father was indeed the embodiment of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ It just sums up my recent life that on the day my son announced his engagement and wanted me to meet his new in-laws I was in Strasbourg . |
| 5 | I mentioned in my original article that at its upper end the Minuet spills over into the very fast dance the Viennese called a ‘ Deutsche ’ or ‘ Teutch ’ ( Mozart : ‘ Teitsch ’ ) . |
| 6 | Flaubert does not build up his characters , as did Balzac , by objective , external description ; in fact , so careless is he of their outward appearance that on one occasion he gives Emma brown eyes ( 14 ) ; on another deep black eyes ( 15 ) ; and on another blue eyes ( 16 ) . |
| 7 | The search for goodness could take the new hero into academia and out again , despairing of its false intellectualism and its established assumption that to be intelligent is only and always to be an intellectual . |
| 8 | It is this straight talking and her lived-in looks that after 10 years hard slog have finally made her hot film property . |
| 9 | It gave her great satisfaction that after a couple of months she proved as expert as Ferdinando , learning rapidly how to drive a hard bargain . |
| 10 | Indeed , it would probably be true to say that more sub-standard typography has been produced by desktop publishing software during its short lifespan that by traditional methods in the whole of this century ! |
| 11 | To encourage speculators Chéron published a brochure , assuring his would-be customers that by collecting paintings of promising young artists and selling them ten or fifteen years later , they could realize an increase of five to ten times on the purchase price . |
| 12 | In April 1989 a United States drug enforcement agent gave his personal guarantee that in two years time the United Kingdom would have a serious crack problem . |
| 13 | This conjunction sparked off his remarkable theory that from Egypt , where they had originated , an oddly assorted ‘ culture-complex ’ including mummification , sun-worship and large stone monuments had spread round the world . |
| 14 | But it is an impressive tribute to the persuasive power of his challenging presentation that despite so many deficiencies his argument remains fresh and stimulating . |
| 15 | He played the game of Murder in the dark through the vast rooms of the bishop 's vast palace and told his nonconformist father that at last he found a reason why bishops should live in such large houses . |
| 16 | On the second point , Franco had been reliably informed by his senior generals that without an extensive programme of externally-provided rearmament , the Spanish Armed Forces would not be capable of fighting a war . |
| 17 | It is our express hope that through the development of business and language awards we can help to support those organisations which are relative newcomers to competitive world markets . |
| 18 | Prayer for strength is appropriate at any stage of our lives and might well be made daily but that does not invalidate the usefulness of marking one day in our life when someone prays over us in public and asks that out of the treasures of his glory , God may grant you strength and power through his spirit in your inner being that through faith cast may dwell in your hearts in love . |