Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the haze of Bell 's which had been the weekend , it had become clear that he had little alternative . |
| 2 | It seemed all wrong that I had horizontal loops across the face of the work . |
| 3 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 4 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 5 | Hugging the ground , dodging clumps of splintered trees , hopping over hedges and walls and old fortified lines , Lambert led Kimberley and Killion so low that they had little opportunity to take their eyes off the terrain and look for balloons . |
| 6 | Erm well it 's , i various changes in erm the upset that we had last year with the recession and |
| 7 | After sitting in the stalls and watching the summer show , the other two were convinced that they had good reason enough to want him . |
| 8 | Although Anne Boleyn gave birth to Princess Elizabeth at Greenwich , in September 1533 , there was no son forthcoming and Henry VIII became convinced that she had another lover , so he had her beheaded on 19th . |
| 9 | His voice sounded so matter-of-fact that she had little difficulty in ignoring the more flattering words . |
| 10 | It has leg-like fins with fleshy bases like the coelacanth ; it seems very likely that it had air-breathing pouches from its gut like a lungfish . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's in the bedroom , getting changed , ’ the chap said , making it very obvious that he had proprietorial interests in her . |
| 12 | The second is that the British colonial rulers did not genuinely believe in independent , publicly owned public service broadcasting because when in government they made sure that they had full control and tolerated the idea of a corporation only when their rule was coming to an end . |
| 13 | I was n't at all sure that I had any right to make the request that I proposed to make . |
| 14 | He made sure that she had ample money . |
| 15 | As a good Jew , it would seem highly unlikely that he had any intention of founding a new religion , let alone setting up a ‘ priesthood ’ for it . |
| 16 | After leaving the Institute , where he retained a small laboratory which he visited at weekends , Butler 's administrative duties were so heavy that he had little time for mycological research . |
| 17 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 18 | The early bipedal hominids were smaller than us so it is not surprising that they had smaller skulls , but there are no good grounds for supposing that men have gradually been evolving into creatures of greater and greater intelligence . |
| 19 | They hastened into the shelter of rocks and wood , wary of falling branches but aware that they had little choice but to seek refuge from the storm in the wind-shadow of great trees . |
| 20 | In discussion , members of staff became aware that they had different interpretations of some objectives , such as : |
| 21 | She moved , uncomfortably aware that he had good reason to be annoyed . |
| 22 | ‘ David did very , very well to get through the Turkey game the way he did and if you were not aware that he had this problem with his knee , you would n't have known it was there . |