Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Slovak Prime Minister , Jan Carnogursky , confirmed a statement he made in an interview with the French paper Libération that Slovakia aimed to be in the European Communities as an independent state by 2000 . |
| 2 | Here , the Dialectical Theologians took up afresh one of the prominent motifs in the thought of the Reformers : that the kind of religion that man works out for himself is in the end idolatry , for its real object is not the living God , but man 's own secret divinity . |
| 3 | But it was in Cropper 's and Roscoe 's home town amongst liberal men of religion that agitation of the economic arguments had first substantially begun . |
| 4 | The kind of religion that people like in this country is to do , I think , with their sense of identity as being British people and following British habits and customs . |
| 5 | Once again , Alex was struck by the absurdity — no , the cruelty — of the self-image that society tries to impose on women . |
| 6 | This was already being discussed widely as a possible motive for the action that Orkney Islands Council had taken . |
| 7 | There was so much enraged violence in the action that Isabel knew she had missed being hurled across the church by that powerful arm only because of fitzAlan 's self-control . |
| 8 | Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers ' pay claim . |
| 9 | The planned Leipzig Museum for Contemporary Art was conceived back in 1987 , before the reunification of Germany , as a place in which art from both East and West could be seen together a means of ending the isolation that East German museums found themselves in . |
| 10 | That 's fixed but some some of them started off with a a fo a double sided piece of paper which is thrown away with the rest of the garbage that people keep in their houses . |
| 11 | One of the better songs , ‘ Sweet Sentiment 's Pet ’ , showed enormous flair for improvising irresistibly improbable rhymes : The final verse , a sort of policy recommendation , advocated the remedy that parliament would so readily agree to in the ensuing months ; one that was ‘ cheapest and quickest and best ’ : |
| 12 | Posting some of the city 's bills to another address — ‘ load-shedding ’ , as it is called — is a remedy that appeals to New York politicians . |
| 13 | This did not surprise me , since one could see at a glance that Herr Bremann was a gentleman of great decency . |
| 14 | The glance that Gideon Eddy turned upon the perspiring landlord had struck fear into a whole generation of London criminals . |
| 15 | Ari watched with interest the sharp glance that Roirbak directed at her . |
| 16 | Mitch turned to look at her steadily and she did not miss the quick glance that Felipe cast in her direction . |
| 17 | The shock wave threw her backwards , but she rolled and was up at once , facing the direction of the explosion , seeing at a glance that Siang was dead , huge splinters jutting from his back . |
| 18 | It seemed at first glance that Louise was wearing a turban ; she had saved her day 's ration of flour and had made a poultice of it for a boil which had erupted on her temple ; her other boils seemed to be growing slightly better . |
| 19 | A reliable source told the Press Association that Government representatives had a meeting with Libyan officials at which these assurances were repeated . |
| 20 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 21 | There is a story currently being developed by the Press Association that David Batty has agreed to go to Blackburn ! ! ! ! |
| 22 | The X-CS association that results would then interfere with subsequent attempts to establish the CS-US association . |
| 23 | It is worth pausing here for a moment to reflect on the weight of traditional thinking that McDowell is seeking to shift : |
| 24 | It 's only thanks to Clark 's quick thinking that Richard did n't lose his sight and the pellet from the airrifle went into the back of his head rather than his eye . |
| 25 | It is no good thinking that secateurs will keep a 30ft ( 9m ) monster down to 10 or ft ( 3 or 4m ) — the plant will take on the challenge , break forth with even greater vigour , and fight you all the way . |
| 26 | When he was pressured , the dealer might ring his client two or three times in the morning alone , selling shares and maybe taking some back to pay for it , a churning of stock that Harvard tacitly condoned . |
| 27 | The cleft that Roland made is 300 feet deep , half that many long and from 130 to 190 feet wide . |
| 28 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 29 | The film was a reaction against that , the delusion that nostalgia brings to something that was thoroughly horrible . ’ |
| 30 | Apparently he was under the impression that she had arranged to see Richard again tonight ; he was also under the delusion that Richard was a Belgian whom she had just happened to pick up . |