Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [that] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | There were abortive attempts at a settlement by the American Secretary of State , General Alexander Haig , and discussions over a Peruvian peace plan which would bypass the British contention that it possessed sole sovereignty over the Falklands . |
2 | It is almost as if the modern mind , unable to tolerate cultural restraints , and feeling that discontent in civilization which Freud described long ago , had become so intolerant of the demands of communal existence and civilized behaviour that it saw each and every representative of those restraints as an incitement to revolt rather in the same way that an enraged revolutionary mob , thirsting for the blood of its oppressors , might fall on some unfortunate bystander merely because he happened to bear a resemblance to the head of the secret police . |
3 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |
4 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |
5 | It wants to be a leader in the C and C++ commercial market that it sees emerging . |
6 | They have called on the Northern Regional Health Authority to issue a categorical denial that it has any plans to merge 15 health care districts into six super districts . |
7 | From the analysis above , it would be reasonable to recommend the use of open matching specific grants for each individual service that it wanted expanded . |
8 | During the first film , Storm Over the Nile , there is such a storm of noise in the cinema from the drunken audience that it proves impossible to follow the plot at all . |
9 | War was declared in August 1914 but it was not until the following year that it made much of an impression on the affairs of the Union . |
10 | One morning the young man was seized with a fit , in Dr. Prior 's presence , of ‘ such a frightful nature that it required strong nerves to witness same in those who are used to such sights ’ . |
11 | Unfortunately this purely empirical observation was remarked on at length in several passages of the General Theory , giving the false impression that it had some wider theoretical significance . |
12 | You can create this situation quickly , by providing , say , a highly nitrogenous chemical like sulphate of ammonia , or much more slowly by lashings of the ubiquitous bone meal under the mistaken impression that it provides all the major elements and is a balanced feed ( see also question number 24 on page 171 ) . |
13 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
14 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
15 | The identification of the so-called Jurassic Way was always based on the very flimsy evidence that it linked some six or seven Iron Age sites . |
16 | Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigner Bridget Woodman said : ‘ Nuclear Electric wants to operate Sizewell B in the full knowledge that it has sub-standard components and an increased potential for a disastrous accident . ’ |
17 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
18 | ‘ It is a proven fact that it strengthens growing teeth . ’ |
19 | The Guide-lines Commission interpreted an ambiguous statutory injunction that it take correctional resources into ‘ substantial consideration ’ as a mandate that its guide-lines not increase prison population beyond existing capacity constraints ( Tonry 1988 ) . |
20 | Other experts fear for the future — MDMA damages nerve terminals in rats and monkeys , and there is a strong possibility that it causes similar damage in humans . |
21 | ( In Example 90 , the triads are so frequently of the augmented type that it seems probable that the harmony was composed first and the horizontal outline of each voice delineated only afterwards . |
22 | The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him . |
23 | By asking for the supplier 's commitment at this early stage , Pearl wanted a quality assurance check and formal assurance that it had realistic expectations . |