Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Major 's inquiry should be held in public , not behind closed doors or with the usual excuse that publication would ‘ not be in the public interest ’ . |
| 2 | There are rules of interpretation which judges are said to follow and which prevent arbitrariness in the process , but in fact there are so many conflicting rules that judges are effectively free to choose which to follow . |
| 3 | That I think recognizes a possibility , by no means a probability , but a possibility that Paul might move away from home and the more real possibility that in due course that Mr and Mrs might be unable to bear their part further as carers . |
| 4 | Party control over the army , KGB , state administration , economic management and other public institutions and professional groups that staff them does not lead to unity of interest among them ( Hirszowicz 1976 , p. 270 ) . |
| 5 | IT WAS a strange coincidence that Harry Mead should write about the Northern Ireland situation on the very day that one of the worst atrocities in recent years occurred ( Echo January 17 ) . |
| 6 | Of all the ways to commit a murder , is n't it a strange coincidence that Angy was stabbed in the throat , just like she was in the portrait ? ’ |
| 7 | Or is it the merest coincidence that Kyle is sitting back in his chair , with the receiver to his ear , stroking the bald patch on the back of his head as I explain my business ? |
| 8 | It is also in the technical field that women are noticeably absent . |
| 9 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 10 | In the poetry of Mallarmé the words ‘ mean ’ what a French dictionary tells us they mean , but they also take on the private and idiosyncratic meanings that Mallarmé gives them . |
| 11 | First he looked through the typed notes that Diane had done for him . |
| 12 | He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist . |
| 13 | A scan of the literature concerned with early Anglo-Saxon archaeology over the last 25 years has hardly reflected this change until very recently when there have been definite signs that dissatisfaction is leading to experimentation ; otherwise the Sutton Hoo harp has been played while the archaeological world burned . |
| 14 | But there are scant signs that Labour is ready to take the initiative once normality returns , because its response to Major has been marked by cautiousness on two further counts . |
| 15 | There has been an uncanny duplication of the pre-election economic chaos that Argentina experienced in May . |
| 16 | Ken Tyson recreates the advanced projects that Japan was working on before the atomic bombs brought World War Two to a close . |
| 17 | Yeah , well he 's certainly prepared to do er , make a few unorthodox field placements and that was a very strange field that Lawrence had . |
| 18 | It did not worry about women 's invisibility precisely because it accepted prevailing views that politics should be left to men , that the proper forum for female participation is inevitably the family and that the main function of the politically competent woman is to socialise the children and to filter the needs of home and family into the political system . |
| 19 | ‘ We therefore conclude that there was de facto , albeit voidable contract , between the owners and Ballay ; that it was by virtue of that contract that Ballay took possession of the goods ; that accordingly the transfer of the goods to him was with the consent and express authority of the owner and that accordingly there was no lack of authorisation and no appropriation . |
| 20 | We therefore conclude that there was a de facto , albeit voidable contract , between the owners and Ballay ; that it was by virtue of that contract that Ballay took possession of the goods ; that accordingly the transfer of the goods to him was with the consent and express authority of the owner and that accordingly there was no lack of authorisation and no appropriation . |
| 21 | cAMP-CRP and CytR in combination regulate initiation of transcription from at least eight operons that code for proteins involved in nucleoside and deoxynucleoside catabolism and transport in E.coli ( 1 ) . |
| 22 | Clinton 's eyes and Bush 's tales The economic policies that Bill Clinton and George Bush have announced seem to rely too much on old measures that have failed the US economy in the past ; can they work this time ? |
| 23 | It also meant reassuring West European countries worried about a unified Germany that America intended to maintain troops at the heart of the continent . |
| 24 | Their marketing , and the use of brand names similar to those of the licensed products , seems to rely on the understandable difficulty that consumers will have in distinguishing genuine products from false . |
| 25 | No , it 's not er , it 's so much I mean , he 's at work all day , and he works all bloody hours that God sent , when they want , when they got down , |
| 26 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 27 | There is an unusual small catmint ( Nepeta phylloclamys ) next to some tiny lilies that grow only six inches tall , and a viola on a tall stem that E A Bowles wrote about . |
| 28 | Then society will learn from continuous impersonal accounts that attitude required to solve present social problems , and will scorn sporadic writing intended to titivate its humour or its soul . ’ |
| 29 | It was the glossiest , darkest hair that Ronni had ever seen . |
| 30 | He explained that in each case ( including that of teachers ) the charge would be on the cost to the employer of providing the services and that in each case that cost would either be nil or very small . |