Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ where it is shown to the satisfaction of a rating authority that any amount paid in respect of rates , and not recoverable apart from this section , could properly be refunded on the ground that … ( e ) the person who made a payment in respect of rates was not liable to make that payment , the rating authority may refund that amount or a part thereof . |
| 2 | The occasion is famous , the protagonists are distinguished ; Scipio Aemilianus crying over burning Carthage , Polybius suitably present and ready to elicit the right answer : turning round to me at once and grasping my hand , Scipio said : " A glorious moment , Polybius , but I have a dread foreboding that some day the same doom will be pronounced upon my own country " " ( 38.21.1 , transl . |
| 3 | There has grown up a folk belief that recurrent thrush is completely untreatable . |
| 4 | You tend to find that groups , if you 've got a group who 're gon na launch a bomb y'know that that groups make far more risky or dicy de decisions than individuals . |
| 5 | It is no more than the action of clashing their teeth together as if sinking them into the neck of the prey , in the specialized killing bite of the cat , but it has become a sound signal that many observers have commented on . |
| 6 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 7 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 8 | The French opposition may be described as right-wing but coporatism runs deep in France , so there 's no chance of any new government being so radical as to privatise France Telecom : the state phone company is not on the list of firms that France 's centre-right opposition may privatise if , as polls suggest , it wins March 's parliamentary elections , former president Valery Giscard d'Estaing said — Giscard , leader of the UDF party , told a news conference that all companies operating in the competitive sector of the economy would be candidates for privatisation , but that France Telecom , and nationalised transport and energy monopolies , would not . |
| 9 | Later he told a news conference that independent schools will be hit hard by recession and suffer a wave of closures . |
| 10 | For example , the proceedings in the Philip Morris case , which is of significance in the context of mergers and takeovers ( see pp. 87–134 ) , arose from the rejection by the Commission of a complaint by a cigarette manufacturer that certain agreements between two of its competitors were likely to restrict competition . |
| 11 | Brathwaite acknowledged in a radio address that last-minute pressure from international church organizations and human rights organizations had influenced his decision . |
| 12 | The Strangford MP was accused of ‘ dancing on the graves of the dead ’ by the SDLP after he said in a radio interview that increasing fear in nationalist areas could be helpful . |
| 13 | On May 7 , at the end of a visit to Washington , Biya had said in a radio interview that presidential elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 14 | Aziz returned to Moscow on Feb. 21 and reported in a late-night meeting with Gorbachev that Iraq accepted the peace plan , although Saddam Hussein in a broadcast speech that same day had maintained an intransigent stance and urged on his forces in the " mother of battles " . |
| 15 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
| 16 | VIETNAM 'S National Assembly , despite the Socialist bloc move towards glasnost and multi-party government , has passed a press law that local journalists fear will bind newspapers more tightly to the dictates of the Communist Party . |
| 17 | We can derive a strength from being a family company that other businesses can not . |
| 18 | In 1930 the moral majority ( not that it knew itself by that name in those days ) hit back against what it saw as the growing licentiousness and depravity of the movie industry and introduced a production code that all film producers would be required to adhere to . |
| 19 | Yesterday Mr David Moores , the club 's chairman and a close friend , said : ‘ He is such a fitness fanatic that last year , when he was supposed to be on five days ’ holiday at my house , he was on my front lawn every morning doing exercises ’ . |