Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [verb] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research International says that the proportion of farmers under 35 dropped from 39 to 14 per cent between 1987 and 1991 and the number with under 10 years ' experience dropped from 10 per cent to four per cent . |
| 2 | From mid-October to mid-November Baldwin behaved as though lie still hoped that the King might retreat and the affair blow over . |
| 3 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 4 | For that reason alone I feel able to say that the decision of the justices was wrong and that therefore this court is able to substitute its own discretion . |
| 5 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |