Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [that] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He had small shrewd hazel eyes that as a rule missed nothing .
2 The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery .
3 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 .
4 B. Helleborus x orientalis Easy perennials that like a hearty , fertile soil .
5 There are so many needs that without a priority structure we would not know where to begin or when to say ‘ no ’ .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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