Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [det] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 2 | She was worried about her husband ; it had been obvious for the past few days that something was preying on his mind . |
| 3 | For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again . |
| 4 | During the first few days that Mr Reynolds was in hospital the main aims of his care were to confirm the diagnosis of carcinoma of the rectum , and to ensure that both Mr and Mrs Reynolds understood the implications of this . |
| 5 | Oh , no , not that , she would n't be able to suffer that , not after the past few days that had been so ecstatic . |
| 6 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 7 | besides a great many sins that he knew he had done that he could not remember . |
| 8 | There are likely to be a number of crucial calculations within the next few years that have the possibility of showing that the theory is no good . |
| 9 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 10 | Catherine behaved so sweetly to her husband in the next few days that Thrushcross Grange seemed full of sunshine , and in spite of his doubts , Mr Edgar allowed Heathcliff to visit her regularly . |
| 11 | The constant repetition by European politicians in the past few months that Maastricht will not necessarily mean change may have been tactically expedient , but squaring the circle in which the EC has snared itself requires , on the contrary , upheaval , not just in research policy . |
| 12 | Leeds have bought so many players in the past few months that it is tempting to call the club New Leeds — although the fans are calling them Dad 's Army because they have bought so many stars over 30 . |
| 13 | The impression has been strengthened in the past few years that macro-economic developments and policies are now essentially international in character . |
| 14 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
| 15 | We 've just heard in the last few minutes that the application for that hotel to be listed has been turned down . |
| 16 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 17 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 18 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 19 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
| 20 | Such has been the rate of change in the last few years that the 1981 Census has become woefully outdated . |
| 21 | He had heard ( and drunk ) so much in the last few days that his mind was a haze of impressions and conjectures which refused to sort themselves out or lead in any one direction . |
| 22 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
| 23 | No notice , right with these are exactly the same as those now alright so what we 're going to do is we 're going to subtract right , if we subtract from a , subtract b from a all those terms that run off into infinity , we 're gon na drop out , okay . |
| 24 | ‘ We received enough indications over the past few days that he could have gone through with it , ’ a senior spokesman said . |
| 25 | His job had turned into such a jest over the last few weeks that the thought of putting on his uniform , that humiliatingly naval-looking , obviously non-sea-going uniform , made him stiff with bashfulness . |
| 26 | It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition . |
| 27 | I hope and pray that you will win — God willing , you will because you have all the ability in the world — but I have discovered over the last few days that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to stop you . |
| 28 | And I hope over the next few months that the people that 's present today and other people , get more involved in the campaign . |
| 29 | It was over the next few years that he started to produce his finest work . |