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

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1 I understand from some of my students that their OT banks were also a useful source of questions for playing ‘ Strip accountancy ’ .
2 I hear from two of my friends that they were likewise inspired and helped by the Mass of Christ the King ’ .
3 I simply heard from numerous of my friends that they were rung up by quite junior Whips who stressed that Alec was standing , having decided to renounce his peerage .
4 I 've never told any of my girlfriends that I 've been with prostitutes because I know they would be horrified .
5 I know that it would be the wish of my constituents that I should convey heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved and the injured in their grief and agony .
6 One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee .
7 Er it 's been one of my hopes that we might be able to get er a small youth section or youth committee coming er from amongst these people .
8 I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance .
9 He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now .
10 I , I , something floated in front of my eyes that she was thinking of applying on part time for the complaint examiner , but she did n't .
11 Many girls spoke to me of their feelings that their mother 's own self-image had a strong effect on them .
12 Based on statistical data for Roman catholics educated in both Roman catholic and other schools , Greeley and Rossi noted as one of their findings that there was little difference in adult religious practice between the two groups .
13 When we are told there is a shortage of floppy disks , what they ought to be doing is sending out working printing saving and using versions of their programs that we can load 10–20 times then said software will commit Hari Kari .
14 There ca n't even be any economic basis for it , since developing countries are so crippled by the weight of their debts that they are not going to offer the West the kind of expanding , healthy markets it craves unless that burden is lifted .
15 He reckoned that the islanders would be so devastated by the deaths of their children that they would be incapable of taking up arms against the invaders and , later , would be easily subjugated .
16 It is principally in the genealogy of their ideas that one should look for evidence of their kinship .
17 Some barbed quills have reputedly travelled so deep into the bodies of their victims that they have caused the deaths of the predators from the extensive damage caused to vital internal organs .
18 Furthermore , so many traders were involved in non-European countries independently of their governments that it is misleading to think of world trade only in national terms .
19 Ironworkers told one of their officials that they would stop working if the woodworkers were continued in employment .
20 I never wanted to go to university although I do know , however , that my mum and dad always had it in the back of their minds that I would go .
21 Yeah well I 'm not ove I 'm not over struck on some of their sweets that they do , you know erm
22 On the swampy willow scrub of the Wealdmoors in Shropshire , the local rector described in 1673 how ‘ the inhabitants commonly hang 'd bells about the necks of their cows that they might the more easily find them ’ .
23 It was at one of their conferences that I first came across organized lesbians and gays .
24 Nevertheless , it is noteworthy from the annotation of their books that they use translations wherever possible ( as indeed I do myself , life being as short as it is ) .
25 Third , it gave as justification for some of its outrages that they were in retaliation for attacks on the army .
26 BREWER and retailer Whitbread has begun advising more than 1,000 of its tenants that it has arranged deals to lease their pubs to a string of brewers and pub groups as part of a move to comply with the Government 's beer orders .
27 In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them .
28 IBM turned its first Unix system , the RT , into a child of the ghetto and told 90% of its customers that they did n't want it , it was n't for them .
29 But Christianity had so forgotten an earlier period when it was open to discussion and even mockery of its views that it reacted to the modern onslaught with what often amounted to fear and paranoia .
30 Or is it more likely to be so affected by nationalism and the historical preferences of its peoples that it will remain a heterogeneous collection of individual markets linked together in a loose customs union ?
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