Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] that [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For : very nicely made out of very posh wood , well finished , with a good chunky neck and that very practical compound radius fingerboard , with top-class hardware to finish it off ( the Wilkinson is deservedly this year 's tremolo , while both the locking Schallers and the Seymour Duncans are excellent ) . |
| 2 | These remarks of Chomsky have often been quoted , and adduced more often than not , almost gleefully at times , as evidence in support of the view that linguistics has no relevance to language teaching and that therefore applied linguistics , as it relates to pedagogy at least , is vacuous . |
| 3 | Every serious practising critic knows a secret which is less often publicly discussed , namely , that there exists no ready-made corridor between the sealed chambers of stylistic investigation and that equally unventilated space in which the object of study is reconstituted as narrative structure . |
| 4 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 5 | It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market . |