Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one-third of cases there was either suspicion or definite knowledge that a sibling had also been abused ( cf. |
| 2 | Lovat ended that appeal by emphasising his belief that it was ‘ a most wise & prudent maxim that a man in power should do for those that he is pretty sure will stand & fall with him in all events ’ , and in general that was the major qualification for appointment to the judicial bench in eighteenth-century Scotland . |
| 3 | Any additional support or special tuition that a pupil needs as a result of defective sight must be given tactfully by the teacher or teacher 's aid , with an emphasis on what the pupil can do rather than on difficulties . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I do n't know what we 're going to do about that , ’ he said and sucked his teeth and shook his grey head and expressed dismay that a leg had been knocked off the chair . |
| 5 | I showed all the tolerance and good humour that a woman might want of a man when we investigated the range of shopping offered by the spaceport city . |
| 6 | The airstrip itself had been built to serve a golf and diving resort that a consortium of Dutch and American businessmen had planned to build on Straker 's Cay , but the money had run out before the hotel or marina had been built and all that was left of their grandiose plans was this pinkish runway made of compacted coral and a few abandoned cement mixers which rusted forlornly where the hotel 's swimming pool was to have been built . |
| 7 | However , the participant observation research showed that , despite ‘ common sense ’ and the media suggesting to the contrary , these primary clues were only rarely sufficient in themselves to produce a clear and unambiguous decision that a child had been abused . |
| 8 | It can be one of the most helpful and long-lasting things that a friend can do . |
| 9 | As a consequence , as Cool and Lengnick-Hall ( 1985 : 8–9 ) suggest , organization members know what business they are in ; they have a deep-rooted and substantive knowledge that a policy of horizontal or vertical acquisitions hardly allows for . |
| 10 | It is perfectly clear to me and fellow Councillors that a report which is so badly and which so badly uses statistics , can not be received because it is not of sufficient quality for this County Council and support the District Council to use it . |
| 11 | After the dramatic crowning of Charles — the first and last time that a pope paid homage to the new Emperors of the West — came a period of reinforcement of his new status . |
| 12 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 13 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 14 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |