Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if we are concerned with what constitutes a just allocation of resources , my prescription , at the very least , would call for policies aimed at ensuring , as far as possible , that everyone had an equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total net welfare of society . |
| 2 | ‘ The important thing is that everyone has a blinding time , ’ says Dermot with the quiet confidence of a promoter who never promises attractions he ca n't deliver . |
| 3 | I believe in my heart and soul that everyone has an equal responsibility to work together the peace and harmony of this world . |
| 4 | From the cleaners to the executive she sees that everyone has an important part to play , no one is more committed than she is both to the University and her pharmacological research . |
| 5 | Is it to be given to ensure that everyone has the correct drawing or to save time ? |
| 6 | It had begun to look as though the Western powers had embraced the premise that no-one kicks a cringing dog . |
| 7 | It is still a thoughtful , finely acted and daringly all-encompassing film , suggesting that no-one has a fixed nature . |
| 8 | The first point to note is that no-one has a convincing explanation for the existence of W-cells . |
| 9 | It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’ |
| 10 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 11 | It was , especially , upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of the Lady Madeline within the donjon , that I experienced the full power of such feelings . |
| 12 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 13 | For I have not bothered to tell her that I spotted the blasted thing on our drive back from Bournemouth to London , lurking in a lay-by . |
| 14 | I was so angry that I wrote a furious letter to him accusing him of being un-Christian and ignorant , and also wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury , whom I also regard as ineffectual . |
| 15 | Last year , so piqued was I by this , that I plunged the outsize handbag of an excessively bossy senior stewardess from Central Office into a fire-bucket of water on the grounds that it could have contained an incendiary device . |
| 16 | It 's just that I prefer the other rooms . ’ |
| 17 | During my time as a gamekeeper it was essential that I knew the precise location of all these extended burrows . |
| 18 | It was not until I reached Redcar that I saw a Northern Echo placard lettered Death of King . |
| 19 | I know it 's a bit of tenuous link but there we are — other than that I 've no great claims to knowing any Leeds players |
| 20 | For example , how does it happen that I married a good Catholic at seventeen and here I am at thirty-something , childless ? |
| 21 | It was only when telling someone about the finale , weeks later , that I realized the unconscious pun of ‘ Sayer Little Prayer ’ and he washed over me all over again . |
| 22 | When filling small cracks , I 've found that I get a smooth finish , which requires little or no sanding , of I roll over the crack with a paint roller a few times , while the filler is still damp . , . |
| 23 | I could not be bled and have been dealt more than a hundred blows so that I got a thorough grinding . ) |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
| 25 | May I , through the pages of your fine Journal , categorically state that I remain a fervent supporter of English rugby and am particularly proud of the superb performance by the Stevens Team , who have just become World champions . |
| 26 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 27 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 28 | at this stage that I made the unconscious decision , later to manifest itself in physiological terms , to postpone sexuality until I felt myself ready to cope with it . |
| 29 | Point two is this , that I made the bottom border there er about be exactly five centimetres . |
| 30 | ‘ It is necessary for business purposes that I speak the major languages of Europe . |