Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] that [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is my desire that this lovely place , made valid with all the prayers and hopes of generations of worshippers , will continue to be open , friendly , worshipful , adaptable and meaningful to us all . |
| 2 | It is without my knowledge that certain young painters have made use of my latest researches . |
| 3 | For all my lack of enthusiasm for the Hayes Society , it is my belief that this particular pronouncement at least was founded on a significant truth . |
| 4 | I thank my hon. Friend for that encouraging reply , but does he share my concern that certain Labour authorities , such as the city of Birmingham , carry out the letter but not necessarily the spirit of the law on competitive tendering ? |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Brocklehurst , ’ interrupted Mrs Reed , ‘ I mentioned to you in my letter that this little girl has in fact a very bad character . |
| 6 | This is based on my conviction that certain basic attitudes and interests are present in almost all people — both teachers and pupils — and that these provide the raw material for effective RE . |
| 7 | The raft of policies that the Opposition are putting before the British people would be devastating to job prospects , and so ashamed are they of the consequences of their policies that four Labour members of the Select Committee on Employment last week voted down a proposal to hold an inquiry into the effects of national statutory minimum wage because they wanted to hide the truth about that policy from the British people . |
| 8 | As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead . |
| 9 | The Social Democratic Party of Japan ( SDPJ — formerly the Japan Socialist Party ) announced on Feb. 4 that it was declaring a total parliamentary boycott of the discussion of the budget , in support of its demands that former Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki ( in 1980-82 ) should be called to testify before the Diet on the question of his involvement with the Kyowa scandal . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it is because of their influence that Roman Catholic adherents were found in the seventeenth century as far east as Bulgaria . |
| 11 | Despite being the ostensible representative of women 's interests in the Party leadership , it was under her auspices that ordinary Romanian women suffered the worst effects of the Communist regime 's insatiable intrusiveness . |
| 12 | Possibly in her day that practical little utensil known as a lemon zester had not yet been invented . |
| 13 | there 's general acceptance and I note the D O E even accepted in their representations that any new settlement around Greater York will by the very nature of the character of Greater York , require taking some best and most versatile agricultural land . |
| 14 | One of the reasons why the government seems able to sidestep a real assault on health inequalities is its belief that many observed differences in health status can not ‘ be fully accounted for by … factors such as socioeconomic groupings . ’ |
| 15 | China was abstaining , Qian Qichen said , because of its belief that all peaceful means should first be exhausted . |
| 16 | In late February the opposition parties had boycotted the budget hearings in pursuit of its demand that former Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and former state minister Jun Shiozaki — both of whom were members of the Miyazawa faction of the LDP — testify concerning their links with the steel frame manufacturer Kyowa Company . |
| 17 | But these were surface pleasures and , in the end , the very smoothness of new pop consumption , its implication that all cultural goods , all cultural consumers , are equal , undermined any claims to subversion . |
| 18 | A fresh Polisario attack was launched at Amgala on Nov. 8 , and it was claimed by their forces that 250 Moroccan soldiers had been killed , a further 325 wounded and 36 taken prisoner . |
| 19 | My main point was that the Alvey Committee was proposing to focus R & D resources on a particular type of system based on their guess that intelligent knowledge-based systems were the system of the future . |
| 20 | And it was surely not merely over-confidence of his good usage here that gave his eyes that insolent green blaze , and his voice the sharp , clear edge of defiance . |
| 21 | But perhaps it will come to be thought by his readers that these successive attitudes to the autobiographical , and to plain speaking , in art are equally valid , equally reversible . |
| 22 | He reported diligent perusal of the Dictionary and Figures and believed them to be the ‘ compleatest work of that kind extant ’ , but expressed his regret that many American plants had been omitted : he hoped to remedy this by sending specimens of growing plants within the next few years . |
| 23 | All these came about , and such was his nature that this seeming conceit offended none . |
| 24 | He has it firmly in his head that this whole fracas is on my account , and nothing I can say will sway him . |
| 25 | Karajan was by instinct and training a man of the theatre and it is another of those paradoxes surrounding his career that this central aspect of his art has to some extent been obscured from the general public gaze . |
| 26 | Moore 's approach only makes sense in the context of his belief that any proper thing can be conceived independently of any larger context in which it may figure . |
| 27 | It was he who walked from Bristol to London via Glasgow and Edinburgh in papyrus sandals to prove his theory that all Roman roads turned right . |
| 28 | His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide . |
| 29 | The particular point at issue is that in standard English anymore , along with other items in the any series and a number of adverbials , is in main clauses usually restricted to interrogative or negative constructions ; Labov ( 1973 ) cites the following dialogue to show the difficulty of investigating by direct questioning of a native speaker his hunch that this particular constraint was less binding in Philadelphia : |
| 30 | His estimate that 150,000 Iraqi Shias had sought refuge in Iran is exactly three times the figure given by the Iranian interior minister ( although the Iranians have no obvious reason to underestimate the number of refugees ) . |