Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [that] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To counteract this I propose that all classroom teachers be sent a questionnaire on such matters as classroom teaching methods , discipline problems , alternative views etc . |
| 2 | Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor . |
| 3 | By this he meant that many people want to cure a particular problem , or to understand themselves more fully , yet do not want to change their way of moving and , especially , their mental attitudes to life . |
| 4 | The Letter calls him king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes , which if genuine implies that he already claimed Olaf 's throne , and Florence of Worcester says that in 1027 he heard that some Norwegians were discontented , sent them large quantities of gold and silver , and secured an undertaking of future support . |
| 5 | In Chapter 3 I observed that most feminists have been more interested in studying linguistic sex differences than in critiquing or questioning this activity . |
| 6 | In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants . |
| 7 | And if they say something very specific and knowledgeable you know that this chap knows what he 's talking about , and therefore you can prepare your answer and Sorry ? |
| 8 | At first I thought that this emission indicated that one of the approximations I had used was not valid . |
| 9 | Wisps of distant music , the creak of machinery , enigmatic shiftings of light , a spasm of slow-motion : first you realise that this house ( in Dermot Hayes 's cunningly flimsy set , a little Calvary of stunted , corroding masts ) is haunted , then that it is doomed ; and then , the real turn of the screw , that these people may really want to be doomed . |
| 10 | In Chapter 13 we saw that these differences allow people to earn very different income levels in a market economy . |
| 11 | At first it appeared that some progress was being made . |
| 12 | The inclusion in NHS consultants ' contracts of a formal commitment to teaching is a step in the right direction in that it acknowledges that most doctors teach to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 13 | Amidst all the changes which took place in Eastern Europe during 1989 , the opening of the borders between East and West Germany on Nov. 9 , 1989 ( see p. 37025 ) was perhaps the most significant event to NATO members in that it confirmed that such changes , in particular the evolving relationship between the two Germanies , demanded an assessment of how NATO should respond and what its future role would be . |
| 14 | From that it follows that any tax , because it distorts the market , must be bad . |
| 15 | Notice also that we can express any class of asset as a proportion of total assets or liabilities and remember too that in section 1.1.5 we said that these ratios are arrived at as a matter of deliberate choice and are assumed to represent portfolio equilibrium . |
| 16 | Footway beside Flood Bank , Gubberford Lane : In a letter dated 24th May 1990 you said that this area of loose stone would be tarmacadamed ‘ in the near future ’ ! |
| 17 | When an industry is imperfectly competitive we say that each firm in the industry enjoys a degree of monopoly power . |
| 18 | Holomisa had ended Transkei 's state of emergency on Nov. 7 , 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] , freed ANC and PAC prisoners , and encouraged contact with the ANC ; during a visit to the United States at the end of January 1990 he said that these measures showed a commitment to change and to unity on the part of all black people , and that he wanted to make Transkei 's independence an instrument of liberation for South Africa . |