Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may sit tight in the reasonable hope that either the economic strain proves too great and Syria 's military strength is sapped by political and economic instability , or that Syria will dissipate its strength against its eastern adversary , Iraq . |
| 2 | To the baby 's weeping , and to the sound that perhaps the whole planet makes when it tries to soothe : ‘ Schh … |
| 3 | The next day the headlines gloated with the kind of effusive unction that only the English press can muster . |
| 4 | Through more than 70 years of Soviet history , Leninist logic encouraged the belief that somehow the Soviet Union , however badly run , could ignore the laws of economic gravity . |
| 5 | He holds the romantic belief that only the wordless language of music is complete and it is music which has always helped him to live and to write . |
| 6 | Lennie Lawrence , like Malcolm Crosby , has been a breath of fresh air to North-East football , which for too long has clung to the misguided belief that only the big name managers ( Big Lawrie , Big Jack and co. ) can bring big time success . |
| 7 | Do you think that that is a hint that perhaps the high litre cars — that is the four litre efforts and er the company cars might get taxed at the next budget round ? |
| 8 | We felt although fi the County Fire Officer was saying this morning that perhaps the main crisis has peaked during , during the last twenty four hours . |
| 9 | But you can see from the mud that normally the upper part of the shoal is above the water . ’ |
| 10 | Sadly indeed , the pendulum seems to have swung , as it does swing on the education clock , so far away from the New Primary Approach that even the integrated approach to lower primary teaching , which had been so wisely and effectively urged , is no longer reflected in the current Kenya syllabus . |
| 11 | But the new interest shown by socialists in the old anarchist nostrum of ‘ the general strike against war ’ did not rest on an acceptance that only the proletarian revolution could prevent war . |
| 12 | Developing its role in fostering relations with the former communist countries of central and eastern Europe , EFTA concluded free trade agreements on Dec. 10 with Poland and Romania ; signed a declaration on co-operation with Albania ; and took note that both the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic had declared that they would apply on an interim basis from Jan. 1 the EFTA-Czechoslovakia free trade agreement signed on March 20 [ see p. 38834 ] . |
| 13 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 14 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 15 | The City loves to play up the fact that even the giant ogre , Deutsche Bank , came to London to buy its merchant banking arm , Morgan Grenfell . |