Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a funny wheel that funny wheel for it . |
| 2 | Perhaps , together , these totems could banish the modern-day spectres of inflation and spending cuts ; of strike action that endangered hospital patients or people whose houses were on fire ; of lying politicians and rampaging football hooligans ; of the seemingly irreversible rise in unemployment , and the terrible inner-city disturbances of the summer of 1981 , from which the country was still reeling , and which had brought a suddenly sinister resonance to otherwise neighbourly sounding places . |
| 3 | 2.5 The second , and more important , cause of action that English law now allows on death is the independent cause of action given to the near relatives of the deceased who have been deprived of his or her support or services . |
| 4 | Will my hon. Friend discuss with the Office of Electricity Regulation the complaints of the Combined Heat and Power Association that existing regulations contain barriers to the progress of combined heat and power , which should be removed ? |
| 5 | This matter of cellulose breakdown is of vital importance to the whole question of the nutrition of the living cells , for it has been shown by experiment that raw cellulose can be injurious to plants as it is indigestible to animals , and in both the soil and the digestive tract of herbivora , cellulose decomposition is largely performed by fungi . |
| 6 | In the procedures of arresting and charging individuals and in their treatment in court , there are clear differences across the middle/working-class divide ; and these serve to reinforce the public 's ( and the police 's ) perception that certain groups are inclined to criminality . |
| 7 | Resignations in October supported the perception that Russian foreign policy was becoming increasingly nationalistic . |
| 8 | The Piaroa perception that male and female natures are essentially identical is shared by the Chewong , Semai , Buid , and Fipa . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , an awareness that Japan was acutely vulnerable to threats of superior force , a resentment that Japan was considered inferior because she did not conform to Western standards and models , and a perception that other nations were prepared to act ‘ unfairly ’ to maximize the advantages that could be gained from any particular situation , made Japan determined to achieve equal status with the so-called Great Powers , or indeed , to surpass them . |
| 10 | This conclusion was based upon the general perception that pre-1939 aviation was overly competitive and unregulated , and subject to vicious throat-cutting in the national interest . |
| 11 | It is a generally held perception that formal assessment has hindered and distorted work in the secondary classroom through laying too much emphasis on what is easily examinable , regardless of its relevance as musical experience . |
| 12 | One aspect of this broader context was the perception that British society had undergone momentous change during the 1960s and 1970s and that , as a result , the ‘ fourth channel ’ ought to be able to reflect , and comment , upon those changes . |
| 13 | ‘ It would provide the critical psychological boost that general economic recovery needs , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Television reached those parts of the electorate that other high-quality news sources could not reach . |
| 15 | We support the guidance that rigid separation of residential and industrial developments should be avoided . |
| 16 | And given the political sensitivity of so much of our work , it is under the secretary general 's guidance that difficult discussions on strengthening the movement 's development and human rights awareness programmes must take place and where the final green light must be given for increasingly complex initiatives to intensify public pressure on governments . |
| 17 | It should be noted that medical opponents of family planning raised doubts about the deleterious impact of short child spacing on mortality or , rather , about the reasoning that high mortality caused by short spacing can be prevented by contraception ( Eastman , 1944 ) . |
| 18 | It could indeed be argued with some force that international morality was tending to improve slightly during this period . |
| 19 | Reform was inspired by the consciousness that ineffective administration produced revenues inadequate for imperial defence and by the desire to strengthen the hold of Spanish commerce in Latin America against competitors . |
| 20 | This , it argues , would minimise the risk of fraud that open borders would generate . |
| 21 | As someone who came through the state school system and benefited from the investment that previous taxpayers spent on our schools , I believe that it is vital that today 's children and their parents get value for money from the present state school system . |
| 22 | His purpose in doing so was to create the illusion that major political decisions were not taken by one man , but in a collegiate way , by the representatives of the people . |
| 23 | I wonder if any Golf Monthly readers could explain to me why golf manufacturers and club professionals are under the illusion that left-handed people do not want to play golf ; or , if they do , then they are able and willing to use right-handed clubs . |
| 24 | A more accurate way of conveying the thought that men exist or that dragons are fictional would be by saying " For some ( at least one ) x , x is a man " and " Nothing is a dragon " ; employing expressions , that is , that correspond to what logicians call , " quantifiers " , and enable us to dispel any lingering illusion that existential propositions might have a subject/predicate structure . |
| 25 | What elevated Griffith above his fellow technicians was that his sense of what a camera should record and his appreciation that new dimensions of filmic space could be appropriated were given meaning by their constant reference to central themes of American life . |
| 26 | Although in the case of learning disabilities he accepted that he was dealing with congenital conditions incapable of radical improvement , his regimen called not only for humane treatment but also for an appreciation that disabled people deserved special understanding because of their superior spiritual status . |
| 27 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 28 | There can be no doubt that the heliocentric astronomy of Copernicus did pose a challenge to a cosmic geography that Christian theologians had largely taken for granted . |
| 29 | And not just Ford buyers : Options instantly touched such a sensitive nerve that other makers rushed to promote similar schemes . |
| 30 | It was not only to meet the argument of demographic decline if the trade stopped but to avoid the embarrassingly radical charge that they wanted rapid emancipation that antislavery reformers argued the consequence of abolition would be virtually automatic improvement in the conditions of slaves . |