Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever one 's views on public subsidy , the plain fact is that people involved with industries that receive public subsidies always know it and they have that awful feeling that other people are supporting them . |
| 2 | A minority of the committee voted against the decision on the grounds that there was no definite scientific evidence that such animals experience suffering . |
| 3 | Dress has such strong sexual significance that minor activity of this kind adds a frisson for some in intersexual activity . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , it was in this administrative vacuum that many members of the Colonial Service felt they had come into their own . |
| 5 | There may in this adoption of French terms be some covert assumption that postmodernist writing , like cooking — or rather cuisine — is something best left to the French . |
| 6 | There is again some anecdotal evidence that such degrees are less likely to lead on to postgraduate research , and some of the figures in Table 3.2 suggest this ; but such assertions need to be tested empirically . |
| 7 | A US State Department spokesperson , as quoted on May 18 , welcomed " public and private assurances by the Iraqi Kurdish leadership that these elections will deal only with local administrative issues and do not represent a move towards separatism " . |
| 8 | It was from this basic duty that all rights were derived . |
| 9 | It should be clear from this brief description that these issues are inherently geographical . |
| 10 | WHAT a sad monument to this inept government that British Aerospace is to close its Hatfield factory , where the Mosquito fighter and other famous planes were made . |
| 11 | She told the British Psychological Society that many mothers-in law were upset about their image — and they all hated mother-in-law jokes . |
| 12 | This was another powerful signal that primary education had ceased to be the Cinderella of the education service in Leeds . |
| 13 | They have this extraordinary belief that all women want is hope and promise . |
| 14 | It is in this very area that European theology can start to communicate with that of Latin America , and this exchange of experiences and ideas on theology and communication can begin to inspire the different Christian traditions to look for a common language . |
| 15 | As we saw earlier , it was out of this primal conflict that human societies and the superego first emerged . |
| 16 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
| 17 | Another egalitarian principle that some researchers think holds back research is the ‘ Gieskanne ’ or watering can principle for supporting research in universities . |
| 18 | The first beatitude shocks us with this blunt realization that true happiness is reserved for children and the poor . |
| 19 | It is through the implementation of this agreed machinery that disciplinary tribunals and the Inns themselves , with the consent of the Lord Chief Justice , are now able to exercise extended powers of control over the professional conduct of barristers , with a wider range of penalties , but subject always , in the case of decisions by tribunals , to a right of appeal to the visitors : see Disciplinary Tribunal Regulations 1990 , regulations 22 and 30 . |
| 20 | It was at this critical moment that good sense got the better of the others , Big Pat was calmed down and a semblance of order was restored . |
| 21 | Darwin 's in effect in this passage is saying no , I do n't think that 's so at all , I think that this common pattern that all vertebrates have is simple the adaptive features of the common ancestor of the vertebrates , and I think he 's got a jolly good case . |
| 22 | Eliot had hinted in his primitive ritual paper that grand structures of belief might be founded on something false or grotesquely crude or even meaningless . |
| 23 | It is only thanks to this close control that maximum use can be made of the water available to generate electricity . |
| 24 | ‘ Where the commission by any person of an offence under this Act is due to the act or default of some other person that other person shall be guilty of the offence … ’ |
| 25 | It is during this subsequent period that many problems arise , such as relationships with parents and living at home . |
| 26 | In this , one recognises that he is trying to defend the questionable but deeply entrenched politico-sociological dogma that social phenomena result only from social causes . |
| 27 | I 'm sure that er those thinking members that are left within the Tory group , if there are any thinking members left , will realise the benefits of what we 're about and will support the future economic strategy that this Council needs to adopt . |
| 28 | It is on contemporary descriptive grammar that such methods are likely to be based . |
| 29 | Recognition is so fundamental to Roman imperial portraiture that any doubt over the mortal identity of a figure should indicate that the scene is not concerned with important people . |
| 30 | I would just like to know how much real work that young man gets through in a day . |