Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | During other attacks , Abbey Hill provided warning soon enough for ships to fire rockets full of chaff — metallic strips that produced false echoes on Exocet 's radar . |
| 2 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 3 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 4 | These motives , by dint of repeated presentation to the mind , counterbalance the powerful impressions of the private passions that oppose the common good ( Beccaria , 1963 , p. 12 ) . |
| 5 | There are rules of interpretation which judges are said to follow and which prevent arbitrariness in the process , but in fact there are so many conflicting rules that judges are effectively free to choose which to follow . |
| 6 | This interdepartmental Committee on the Medical Inspection and Feeding of Children Attending Public Elementary Schools was appointed in March 1905 and was , in the words of the minister responsible , Lord Londonderry , ( President of the Board of Education ) not to be ‘ at liberty to make far-reaching proposals that the Unionist party would decline to support ’ . |
| 7 | In recent years , Arab linguists ( Abdel Jawad , 1987 ; Alahdal , 1989 ) have found it difficult to reconcile the concepts of ‘ standard ’ and ‘ prestige ’ , because rural norms that are identical to standard Arabic are shown to be dispreferred in favour of urban ‘ non-standard ’ forms . |
| 8 | As it is inevitably the biggest , toughest Orcs that become more important it goes without saying that it is the big Orcs who get bigger ! |
| 9 | This reflects the traditions of an authority , or the lasting influence of a chief officer , but it may also reflect a natural desire by those involved to minimise the political conflicts that are generated when big changes are proposed in one department 's budget compared with others . |
| 10 | Party control over the army , KGB , state administration , economic management and other public institutions and professional groups that staff them does not lead to unity of interest among them ( Hirszowicz 1976 , p. 270 ) . |
| 11 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 12 | We , the organisers , put up ideas to the executive committee which arrives at a consensus , then we discuss possible titles that are appropriate and short enough to capture the necessary publicity . |
| 13 | The far right objects that the tests encourage children to criticise traditional values . |
| 14 | Less accomplished lecturers repeated the message at meetings of the second-rate institutions that infect academic life . |
| 15 | And the world over there are Alfa Romeo dealers who share a passion for fine cars and the highly refined technical skills that go into them . |
| 16 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 17 | The regional policies that have been developed , refined and improved in Britain in the past quarter of a century owe a great deal to the foresight of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in deciding to send Lord Hailsham , as he is now , to the north-east to make some progress . |
| 18 | Whereas Philip V succeeded ( where two hundred years of Hapsburg effort had failed ) in dismantling the political institutions that gave Catalonia , Valencia , and Aragon a quasi-independent status his successors failed to diminish the fueros of the Basque Provinces — Guipúzcoa , Vizcaya , Alava — and of Navarre . |
| 19 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 20 | This will suit most bulbs , and annual or late-flowering perennial climbers that use the hedge for support . |
| 21 | Dramatic herself , she enjoyed drama in art ; and the music swept in over emotional defences that were already down . |
| 22 | A word of caution at this point : do not list specific skills that you do not have unless you feel that the lack of these skills is holding you back in a particular area . |
| 23 | The short-term objectives of the network are to raise women 's awareness of their image in the mass media , to obtain relevant information from research and networking that would motivate women to lobby for change , and to equip women with specific skills that would help build and strengthen alternative communication for and by women . |
| 24 | The essence of the British suggestion was that the time had come to rationalise the proliferation of European institutions that had sprung up over the past decade , most specifically by introducing a single European assembly which , unrelated to any one organisation , would serve them all . |
| 25 | A general election last Thursday would have settled once and for all the political policies that the country will follow for the next few years . |
| 26 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 27 | Second , the study looks at the emotional reactions that young children actually display . |
| 28 | There is a range of possible meanings that might be attached to these rather ambiguous words ; but , if no mortal man could be the doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold , it would scarcely matter from whom the bishop received the emblems of his office : the reality could come only from Christ . |
| 29 | The plaintiff will plead the most exaggerated meanings that his counsel considers the words will conceivably bear , in order to maximise the insult and humiliation ( and hence the damages ) . |
| 30 | THE devastating flames that swept through Windsor Castle did not simply damage part of Britain 's heritage . |