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 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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