Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [that] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 2 | There is no requirement in the Act of 1986 that a right of appeal should be given to a person who is not the recipient of an intervention notice . |
| 3 | From then onwards , ‘ Fred T. Jane ’ became a recognized signature on bold black and white illustrations in a number of books and magazines ; so realistic was the picture in the Illustrated London News of the torpedoing of the ironclad Blanco Encalada in the Chilean revolutionary war of 1891 that a legend grew that Jane had been present at the action . |
| 4 | The Hybrid Tea ( abbreviated to H.T. ) is the type most gardeners regard as the epitome of all that a rose can and should be . |
| 5 | First , the pope asserted that it was upon evidence presented by Offa that Hadrian had based his judgement , Offa testifying that it was the unanimous wish of all that a pallium be sent to the bishop of Lichfield . |
| 6 | But it was only with the election of the PSOE in 1982 that a programme for braking the rise in RENFE 's deficits was seriously implemented . |
| 7 | Lavishing so much care on the offspring , cherishing them until they are well advanced in their growth , inevitably reduces the number of young that a female can produce . |
| 8 | As a rule of thumb , we should explore the possible improvement of fit that a transformation would bring whenever the half-slope ratio is greater than 2 . |
| 9 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 10 | It was in the summer of 1959 that a man with untidy hair , a crumpled suit and pens clipped to his outside breast pocket , looking like a schoolmaster who had fallen on hard times , boarded a plane at London Airport for East Berlin . |
| 11 | The 864 legislation mentions en passant in what sounds like an urban context the selling of bread and meat per denerarios : by pennyworths ( ninth-century hamburgers ? ) — which may imply more about normal price levels than Charlemagne 's decree in the famine year of 794 that a penny should buy 12 two-lb. wheaten loaves . |
| 12 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |