Example sentences of "that [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lawson responded pleasantly : ‘ I am glad that my honourable friend raised that issue because , although it is an absurdity , it is believed by many people other than my honourable friend , who understandably picks up things that he hears other people say . ’ |
| 2 | I shall vote for the amendment and I hope and expect that my honourable friends will do likewise . ' |
| 3 | Quite frankly My Lords , if there are forty-one constabularies throughout the c country e excluding the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police , any for instance fifty people were a applied and they may well apply because plenty of people have already done so , you would be talking about a list of some two thousand people it 's quite impossible to think that my Honourable Friend would know all these two thousand people therefore carefully select party hats who might themselves not actually have applied anyhow . |
| 4 | Now I realise , with growing apprehension , that my fertile years will soon be over and that the time has come to make another choice . |
| 5 | Perhaps you imagine that my poor patient can be wakened up and talked to . |
| 6 | He foresaw ‘ the many hardships , miseries and wants that my poor family was like to meet with … should I be taken from them , especially my poor blind child … . |
| 7 | When my edication was finished , as they do say , I was took hum , seven months larning being all that my poor parents cud afford me , but I shall have to bless God to aull etarnity for that edication . |
| 8 | However I learned from Daphne 's friend that my errant partner was to be discharged on 20 February 1919 , leaving me with little or no time to balance the books . |
| 9 | I noticed that my swaying foot had rubbed against him , leaving a dusty mark on his navy trousers . |
| 10 | He , too , was shocked to hear that my great expectations came from the prisoner I had helped so long ago , and when I introduced him to our guest , Herbert could hardly hide his dislike . |
| 11 | Until recently I should have rejected the premise that my earliest years represented some sort of attack upon my individuality and insisted that , on the contrary , I was surrounded with kindness and loving care — as indeed I was . |
| 12 | ‘ Today 's events suggest that my future movements could be uncertain , ’ he told her . |
| 13 | That I myself did not like Syl was almost immaterial , since I deserved nothing better , but even with my penitential self-disgust it seemed unfair to me , and otiose , that my future husband should be so generally unpopular . |
| 14 | They reckoned that my extra weight had protected my heart , and I was also wearing heavy , rubber-soled safety boots . |
| 15 | What no one had expected was that my xenophobic father should find himself first sorry for the poor little foreigner and then gradually — but quite irreversibly — falling in love with her . |
| 16 | Finally , Grandpère dom Engels quite misses the point that my ironical description of these remorselessly improving adverts as ‘ quaintly old-fashioned ’ refers to their depressingly dated feel rather than to any seductive aura of nostalgia . |
| 17 | In meditation I see that my fellow man is my friend and I try to think of him in the way Thoreau thought when he said , ‘ I knock on the earth for my friend . ’ |
| 18 | The bald election result was bad enough , but then there were the personal touches : that brave but shattered look on Glenys ' face as Neil announced his resignation , the dreadful picture on the back of the Independent of a group of City dickheads celebrating their unexpected winnings , and the downright irritating news that my fellow chatterer on Stop the Week , Milton Shulman , had made a packet at Ladbroke 's predicting the correct result . |
| 19 | He was ‘ convinced that my fellow politicians unnecessarily exaggerate the influence of labour … it can easily be overcome by a political leader with genuine sympathy with the working class and a practical programme ’ . |
| 20 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 21 | Charlie did not know , at that time that I had also been hit in the chest and that my right lung had been punctured and had collapsed ’ . |
| 22 | The report that my right Hon. Friend has had will be discussed with those concerned and conclusions must be reached on the English tourist industry on the basis of information on inward investments coming into the English tourist industry . |
| 23 | I appreciate the difficulties that my right Hon. Friend faces and I am not criticising him , but would it not be a good idea to consider a combination of more all-day European supply days such as the one next Thursday , longer debates-late at night , if necessary the sending of more business upstairs to Committee whenever a particular document makes that relevant and also , once a month , having a longer Friday afternoon session so that European enthusiasts , such as my Hon. Friend the Member for Southend , East ( Mr. Taylor ) , myself and others can take part . |
| 24 | I appreciate the difficulties that my right Hon. Friend faces and I am not criticising him , but would it not be a good idea to consider a combination of more all-day European supply days such as the one next Thursday , longer debates , late at night , if necessary the sending of more business upstairs to Committee whenever a particular document makes that relevant and also , once a month , having a longer Friday afternoon session so that European enthusiasts , such as my Hon. Friend the Member for Southend , East ( Mr. Taylor ) , myself and others can take part . |
| 25 | I hope that my right hon. Friend will add that right to his patients charter . |
| 26 | The fact that Opposition Members should regret the fact that my right hon. Friend is in Rome , shows how little attention they pay to defence and NATO matters . |
| 27 | It is precisely to deal with those problems that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been having so many discussions over the past year . |
| 28 | I hope that my right hon. Friend will be able to provide not only the extra helicopters that are needed but the extra security that is desperately needed all the way across the Bristol channel . |
| 29 | Since then we have published the timetable for the amalgamation of regiments , and it was to that fact that my right hon. Friends were perfectly fairly drawing attention . |
| 30 | However , the hon. Gentleman will know that the Government have gone to great lengths to help the Northern Ireland economy and I am sure that the measures that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is taking will continue to alleviate the situation in the Province . |