Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creation of a captive insurance company may enable the group to save on premiums and to cover risks that their normal insurers do not ( eg excess claims ) . |
| 2 | Robyn felt herself growing warm with resentment of his rudeness , mingled with the consciousness that her own conduct had not been entirely blameless . |
| 3 | ‘ Reality itself is an illusion that our nervous system puts together for us . |
| 4 | Before 1948 , the provision of hospitals was the responsibility of various statutory and voluntary bodies , with the result that their geographical distribution reflected a variety of factors other than need . |
| 5 | In the words of Abraham Lincoln ‘ Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing ’ . |
| 6 | The gains had been welcomed by the government as confirmation that its economic policies had received a good response from investors . |
| 7 | In the past few months it has become clear to Her Majesty that her own children have spectacularly failed in their duty to the Crown . |
| 8 | Another indication that our medieval forebears had very different standards from ours for recording the lapse of time is revealed by the way in which they dated their letters . |
| 9 | Those early days , when he shared a hovel with Linder and Ian Devine , were spent with few friends and ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ , an indication that his personal situation had n't improved with success , was hardly the typical Top Of The Pops sentiment of the day . |
| 10 | The practice that my hon. Friend mentioned is typical . |
| 11 | During the plague of 1603 rumours were fathered on him and John Dee [ q.v. ] to the effect that its future course depended on the imminent fall of a planet to earth . |
| 12 | But the migratory instinct and the geographical pattern seems so deeply etched into their inward mental fabric that their pre-programmed habit rules the day . |
| 13 | He made such noisy protestations that his nervous owner fled back into the waiting-room . |
| 14 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 15 | The connection proved useful as Korn/Ferry was initially strongly dependent on the multinational clients that its American offices supplied . |
| 16 | I give the undertaking that I will meet any delegation that my hon. Friend wishes to bring to me . |
| 17 | Partly that is because the people in power are primarily interested in the high-quality urban schools that their own children attend — and the best schools in Delhi or Nairobi are now the equal of any in the West . |
| 18 | If it held the shares intact it would suffer the same disadvantage that our ordinary investor encountered . |
| 19 | I heard from the white-glowing crucible of cutting-edge technological advancement that our humble kitchen had become . |
| 20 | It is important to note that if the pledge that the Labour party made at the last election had been carried through , dramatically less money would have been spent on health , for the reasons that my hon. Friend gave . |
| 21 | The bank has no wish to call in its loans , but we must satisfy our board that your present trading justifies the considerable sum involved . |
| 22 | If Locke 's account is rejected then we are back with the admission that our visual experience does not seem to accord with the impression theory . |
| 23 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 24 | As the Men carried Minch away Creggan looked desperately about him as if to seek out some inspiration for the action and sign of hope that her final words had seemed to wish to invoke . |
| 25 | He had seen Hugo from time to time in the intervening years ; he knew from Hugo 's cousin Christian that his former tutor had fallen on hard times . |
| 26 | It was then that she and Madeleine saw each other : and it was at that instant that their military training served them well . |
| 27 | She turned away , sending up a silent but not very optimistic prayer that her tiny slip had passed unnoticed . |
| 28 | The King 's Cross development may draw money away from the projects that my hon. Friend has listed . |
| 29 | An applicant for registration is asked , unless such confirmation has already been received , to produce confirmation from each of his or her home law societies , bars , chambers or courts that its professional rules do not prohibit practice in partnership with English solicitors in England and Wales . |
| 30 | The thought of the forthcoming windfall reminded Rev. Levitt that his last wedding had in fact been that of Mrs Cohen 's elder daughter . |