Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [that] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These working practices had developed quite informally , and had become ‘ institutionalised ’ in a set of unwritten rules that in the end failed to satisfy anyone completely . |
| 2 | He had small shrewd hazel eyes that as a rule missed nothing . |
| 3 | She was eleven years old , with a smooth oval face , and deep , dark brown eyes that at the moment seemed far too big for her face . |
| 4 | Every possibility is covered in so many different ways that in the end there 's no possibility whatsoever . |
| 5 | He took a pristine white handkerchief out of his pocket and rubbed at the faint hand-print Kenneth had left on the glass partition as he said , ‘ These passivation glasses are of much use in the semi-conductor industry , and we have high hopes that with the burgeoning of the Scottish computer industry Silicon Glen as it is sometimes jocularly called — we shall shortly be supplying … ’ |
| 6 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 7 | An indicator is the abundance of the rare isotope of hydrogen , deuterium D , compared to the common isotope 1 H. D is twice the mass of 1 H and therefore 1 H will normally escape faster , enhancing D/ 1 H. The D/ 1 H ratio in the Cytherean atmosphere today is about 100 times that on the Earth , indicating more 1 H on Venus in the past , though still a good deal less than on the Earth . |
| 8 | It is clear from the context of such pairs that in every case where the second speaker responds to a proposition of the first speaker with " you know what I mean ! " or " you know ! " , the second speaker is in fact agreeing with the first . |
| 9 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 10 | B. Helleborus x orientalis Easy perennials that like a hearty , fertile soil . |
| 11 | Average income in the private sector is probably about three times that in the state sector , but no one knows for sure . |
| 12 | They aim to capture the same market — small to medium-sized businesses that in the past did not have the same buying power as blue-chip companies . |
| 13 | In this country we have lost many rituals that in the past supported us through the various stages of grief . |
| 14 | As for the revealing of ‘ new unattainable vistas ’ , the problem there — as Tolkien must have thought many times-was that in The Lord of the Rings Middle-earth was already old , with a vast weight of history behind it . |
| 15 | There are so many needs that without a priority structure we would not know where to begin or when to say ‘ no ’ . |
| 16 | Endurance , fleetness , wakefulness , watchfulness , and bellicosity , all attributes that for the Shavante lead to good hunting , are also indicative of valour , the most esteemed characteristic of Shavante manhood . |
| 17 | ‘ In all these circumstances I think that it is a proper inference that , in the case of each journey in question , the plaintiffs paid the money unwillingly and only because they apprehended on reasonable grounds that without the permit which could not otherwise be obtained officers acting under the authority of the State of New South Wales would or might stop the motor vehicle and refuse to allow it to proceed upon the journey . |
| 18 | She looked like a refugee from one of those films that at the time constantly glamourized the Paris left bank — like Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face or Juliet Greco in so many roles . |
| 19 | A report from consultancy Ovum Ltd forecasts that by the end of the decade nearly a third of telecommunications companies ' revenues will come from intelligent network services . |
| 20 | The amount left in the client account in respect of the bill of costs after seven days should only be , therefore , unpaid professional disbursements that from the date of receipt earn deposit interest subject to the de minimis rules . |
| 21 | President Wojciech Jaruzelski on Sept. 19 yielded to the demand from the vast majority of Poland 's political forces that as an anachronism from the former communist regime he should resign . |
| 22 | We had the usual instructions that in the event of his death he should be buried here , and in those cases we do n't wait . |
| 23 | Mr Goldring told the jury of seven men and five women that at the time of the incidents involving the twins , it never occurred to anyone that Allitt might have caused them . |
| 24 | There were large , unmistakeable signs that with The Child In Time McEwan had lost his desire to outrage . |
| 25 | He had attended courses in England and arranged visits by senior Metropolitan officers to the Hoover Building to form those one-on-one relationships that in a crisis can cut through miles of red tape . |
| 26 | Because then the P P G seven then goes on to make the implicit point about other things that in the countryside such as the small villages and towns and other development opportunities , do occur which provide the rural diversification and employment development that is that is required by the P P G. |
| 27 | Other regions that on the face of it may seem rather benign — including open reaches of tropical ocean — may , for long periods , be almost devoid of life . |
| 28 | Looking first of all then at the operational performance of the aircraft , you have told us already in written answers that in the light of the changed security situation you have relaxed the Eurofighter requirement . |
| 29 | The rise of the electricity industry created a new market for his engines , which proved so well suited to driving dynamos that by the time of his death over half the country 's electrical power was generated by them . |