Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A scintilla of Bahamian pride was preserved by the presence of a native officer on every American boat or helicopter , but no one really believed the polite fiction that the local officer was thus in command . |
| 2 | It gradually becomes apparent to every adolescent male that the only thing most penises have in common is that they are the wrong shape or size as far as their owners are concerned . |
| 3 | Everybody 's aware that this may well be the last Gen , the last Party Conference before the General Election , and what is more , of , an impression of the terrific progress that the Labour Party 's made in recent years , and further gains over the last year in terms of public support , so that we really are on the threshold of a General Election campaign which we realistically hope to win , and we 've got the policies in place to meet the needs of the nation for the nineties . |
| 4 | It was perhaps with the expectation that food rioting sometimes secured short-term remedy that the eighteenth-century crowd resorted to it so frequently . |
| 5 | Analysts were more impressed with chairman and chief executive Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy 's guarded optimism that the high street was beginning to see the awakenings of consumer confidence . |
| 6 | From the eleventh century on , the old basis of feudal knighthood became increasingly artificial ; and it is a strange irony that the Norman kings , all of whom relied in large measure on money to recruit their armies , should have introduced the most complete feudal structure of the old kind into England . |
| 7 | The majority opinion emphasises the subjective condition that the General Assembly must be satisfied of the need for the wider powers , but does not make the power of granting oral hearings rest upon the precondition of failure of its duties by South Africa . |
| 8 | These are almost identical to those of some molluscs , a strong indication that the two groups sprang from common stock . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's OUR H-Bomb ! ’ screamed the Daily Express headline after the British test at Christmas Island , which put paid to the still lively hope that the nuclear club would not extend beyond the two super-powers . |
| 10 | It was in this social struggle that the typical alliance of lawyers and small landowners that was to control Galician local politics developed ; the lawyers prospered in the complicated disputes and as Morillo , Galicia 's most distinguished Captain General noted , ‘ had absolute domination over the countryside ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ There is a popular perception that the monetary authorities dictate the general level of interest rates , and of course it is true that we are able to exert a very considerable influence on it . |
| 12 | There is a popular perception that the modern family has become a problem , that increasingly the family renounces its former responsibilities towards the care and maintenance of older relatives . |
| 13 | The first official and public indication that the Soviet Union was seeking large-scale Western aid came at a press conference between Gorbachev and Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on May 22 , when Gorbachev made plain his desire to attend the July G-7 meeting . |
| 14 | His approach is a clear indication that the apparent rigours of Faccenda are now being mitigated by judges because the definition of trade secrets given in that case has been found to be too narrow to be workable . |
| 15 | More critical , though , was the clear indication that the key resource allocators , ie doctors and nurses , must be an integral part of developing any such approach . |
| 16 | His wife Eleanor Roos , meanwhile , was in the queen 's service — a clear demonstration that the two circles were not incompatible . |
| 17 | His wife Eleanor Roos , meanwhile , was in the queen 's service — a clear demonstration that the two circles were not incompatible . |
| 18 | All professional work is done under contracts containing either an express or implied term that the professional person will use reasonable skill and care in the performance of the work . |
| 19 | It is clear from both the untransformed and the transformed plot that the oil-producing countries tend to have low life expectancies for their level of wealth . |
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| 21 | Irrespective of the immense problems posed by the preservation of electronic record that the traditional archives are now having to face , it would be wrong to claim that many of these problems are entirely new or unchallenged . |
| 22 | Public suspicion that the real motives and intentions of the government lay in " creeping privatisation " were particularly focused on trusts . |
| 23 | The derogatory remark that the rounder handles might strike the bench leg is uncalled for . |
| 24 | At first , he was sympathetic to the ‘ popular cry that the premier team has not tried to encourage and develop local talent ’ , and assured readers of the club programme that steps were being taken to foster such talent . |
| 25 | Paul Fussell has developed the interesting point that the first world war was a peculiarly literary war . |
| 26 | The Reports were published amidst a general expectation among informed opinion that the Poor Law would indeed be reformed or abolished . |
| 27 | A high confidence that the offlined files are secure . |
| 28 | It meant that those figures were properly housed , but it was also a clear sign that the defeated gods were henceforth under the authority of their own gods , and the defeated people under their thumb . |
| 29 | On income support applications , I reassure my hon. Friend that the standard acknowledgement letter , a copy of which I have , has been markedly improved by watermarking and the addition of a photograph . |
| 30 | I am pleased to be able to tell my hon. Friend that the new structures and management priorities of the health service led the health authority to appoint a new ophthalmology consultant last week to provide extra sessions to work through the waiting list . |