Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge leap forward had taken place in the eighties when he had used junk bonds to enlarge his empire at a fantastic pace — until suddenly it was realized in the States that Hauser controlled the largest private financial institution in the republic . |
| 2 | Yet Dr. Elliott is elsewhere in print ( on the back of an Abbey Records LP ) as maintaining as almost certain that Carver composed the superb anonymous 6-Part Mass , ‘ Cantate Domino , ’ intimately related musically to Fera Pessima , which survives in partbooks from Lincluden ( Dr. Elliott has edited it from performance , and declared it ‘ shows more assured technical command ’ than Fere Pessima itself ) ; while the Carver Choirbook itself contains a fine anonymous 3-Part Mass which several scholars have suspected to be genuine Carver — and which is moreover largely in his hand . |
| 3 | When articulated in this way the Wilsonian social contract appears very close to what Sir Ian Gilmour ( 1978 ) has claimed is the essence of true and wise Toryism : the avoidance of ‘ dogma ’ ; the balancing of opposed social forces ; the concession of reform where reform is due in order to hold together a ‘ national ’ constituency ( despite the fact that Gilmour viewed the 1974/75 legislative programme as a dangerous concession to sectional union interests and a threat to the constitution — true Toryism is only recognised as such well after the event ! ) . |
| 4 | Yet on the other hand surviving evidence tends to vindicate Richard Padley 's accusation , in the Fabian survey of evacuation , that Whitehall used the decentralised local government system to shirk its responsibilities ; the Ministry of Health and Board of Education , he maintained , doled out ‘ platitudinous ’ advice via circulars and adopted an attitude of complacency over the possibility of medical problems among evacuee children , such as malnutrition , head lice , impetigo , etc . |
| 5 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 6 | It was here that Frankie hid the black sharp-tasting seeds that he picked from her caraway cake . |
| 7 | The establishment of diplomatic relations between Singapore and China in October 1990 [ see p. 37780 ] meant that Brunei became the sole ASEAN member without formal diplomatic ties with China . |
| 8 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 9 | It will be recalled from discussion of Table 1 , Expenditure on libraries and computing , that Strathclyde had the second lowest expenditure per student on libraries in 1986-87 . |
| 10 | The Harewoman looked sharply at him and then shrugged , taking the chanterelles into her hand too roughly , so that Jinny smelt the faint apricot smell they gave off . |
| 11 | The H-thymidine labelling index of the acidophilic atypical acinar cell foci in the fundectomy group was significantly lower than that in the PBD group , showing that PBD has the strongest stimulatory effect . |
| 12 | It is claimed that Altrincham has the second highest capital income in the country . |
| 13 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 14 | The meeting broke up , however , without any agreement on a cut in production , which might have pushed up prices , meaning that OPEC retained the official total production ceiling of 22,086,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) which had been agreed at the November 1989 meeting [ see p. 37053 ] . |
| 15 | But no one can deny that Benidorm has the perfect late autumn/winter climate . |