Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is prone to pointing out to journalists that she has ugly hands ( her assessment ) , says she grew up thinking she was plain and now is so embarrassed by her appearance on screen that she never sees her films unless she 's forced to . |
| 2 | During the last couple of months that he holds that office , he will be judged harshly on what he does . |
| 3 | Many college curricula , especially in scientific and technological subjects , subject the student to such a barrage of facts and opinions that he has little chance to pause and assess what has taken place so far . |
| 4 | Parke , aged 17 , had already showed us with two wins in the previous two days that he has great ability . |
| 5 | Mr Lawson responded pleasantly : ‘ I am glad that my honourable friend raised that issue because , although it is an absurdity , it is believed by many people other than my honourable friend , who understandably picks up things that he hears other people say . ’ |
| 6 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 7 | WE LEARN from Paul Johnson 's review last week of Barbara Caine 's Victorian Feminists that he dislikes certain sorts of academic terminology , detests feminism , and believes the most effective way of achieving political ends is to refrain from campaigning for them . |
| 8 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 9 | Auslan Cramb reports on claims that it causes severe illness |
| 10 | Burton 's approach can be seriously criticized on the grounds that he pays little attention to such problems as the globalization of capital , class struggle or ideology , and that he often appears to confuse society and system at both the descriptive and the conceptual levels . |
| 11 | He does not have to believe on reasonable grounds that he has reasonable grounds for making the demand and so on : Lambert [ 1972 ] Crim LR 422 , where the accused threatened to tell the victim 's employers of his affair with the accused 's wife . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the above analysis may be justifiably criticised on the grounds that it compares two surveys which employed different agencies to reach their estimates of the prevalence of known opioid use . |
| 13 | Kuhn 's demarcation criterion has been criticized by Popper on the grounds that it gives undue emphasis to the role of criticism in science ; by Lakatos because , among other things , it misses the importance of competition between research programmes ( or paradigms ) ; and by Feyerabend on the grounds that Kuhn 's distinction leads to the conclusion that organized crime and Oxford philosophy qualify as science . |
| 14 | A third consequence of Gandhi 's insistence on the imperfect nature of particular forms of religions is his plea for the spirit of toleration between religions on the grounds that it increases spiritual insight and gives a better understanding of one 's own faith . |
| 15 | ‘ They object to nuclear power on the grounds that it releases radioactive nuclides into the air . |