Example sentences of "that [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her whole world felt as though it had just been rocked on its axis by the announcement , so that for long silent seconds she could only stare at him with pain in her eyes . |
| 2 | Phoenix ( 1991 ) , for example , argues that for young teenage mothers it is their lack of resources , rather than their race , which most structures their lives . |
| 3 | Ghosh and Senko put forward an interpolation search in place of the track or lowest-level index , and showed that for normal key distributions it would improve the direct retrieval performance of IS files . |
| 4 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 5 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 6 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 7 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 8 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 9 | PEOPLE WHO WISHED THAT FOR TEN PRECIOUS SECONDS THEY COULD HAVE THE LEGS OF VALERY BORZOV . |
| 10 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 11 | It 's very interesting that for hyper accurate barometers they still use mercury , and the and these are real test barometers . |
| 12 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 13 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 14 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 16 | It is remarkable therefore that despite these two biases we still found a twofold difference . |
| 17 | It is so large and bureaucratic that like all such hierarchies it defeats itself . |
| 18 | The Sergeant-Major had said that like all other legionnaires we would learn to sing in perfect time , so sing we would . |
| 19 | I did n't have time to stop him , ’ he said , suggesting that under any other circumstances he would have downed the suspect with a flying tackle . |
| 20 | At the same time the British leaders , although they soon realized just how much they would have to concede in order to regain American confidence and backing , were largely unshaken in their belief that in Middle Eastern affairs they were the true experts compared with the Americans . |
| 21 | The experience of PNP , as recorded in our eleven interim reports and the previous six chapters , suggests that the extent of LEA centralization over PNP was excessive , and that in certain crucial respects it was counter-productive . |
| 22 | Feminist psychology also often accepts psychological clichés about black women : for instance , that in low socioeconomic groups they are more powerful than black men or white women ; or that they are sexually delinquent ( e.g. Rainwater 1972 ) . |
| 23 | They could both tell that in normal social circumstances they would have disliked each other . |
| 24 | Roman 's interruption held a note of such ferocious anger that in any other circumstances it would have stopped her in her tracks . |
| 25 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |
| 26 | I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests , but comes close to being the personification itself , of what the Hayes Society terms ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ . |
| 27 | Apollinaire concludes : ‘ I believe that in these few words I have conveyed the true meaning of Cubism : a new and lofty artistic movement , but not a rigid school inhibiting talent . ’ |
| 28 | It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness . |
| 29 | Well Monsieur Mitterrand has already made it clear that in some important respects I think particularly of defence , erm that , that 's he not going to rush into any changes . |
| 30 | They were past Jedburgh by noon , and Ramsay , who now was in country he knew fairly intimately , pointed out that in another ten miles they would be out of Teviotdale , with Teviot joining Tweed at Roxburgh and Kelso . |