Example sentences of "[pron] [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that for some of us there 's the need to possess for ourselves that inner conviction and excitement that is a mark of New Testament Christianity . |
| 2 | I have in my memory a feeling that we had satisfied ourselves that international law would be obeyed . ’ |
| 3 | In a similar way we sometimes need to remind ourselves that young readers have ideas that are worth consideration , and that the administratively-convenient solution to a problem may not be the most valuable one . |
| 4 | Virtually nothing that Great Aycliffe Town Council undertakes could n't be done equally efficiently and at much less overall cost by Sedgefield District . |
| 5 | He believed there was nothing that medical science could have done to have changed the tragic outcome . |
| 6 | He and Zak went away together , and Donna drifted around from table to table for a while telling everyone that poor Angelica had really been very sweet , not a murderess , and she , Donna , was dreadfully upset at the suggestion . |
| 7 | When it comes to Opposition claims about NHS trusts , should not we bear in mind that , two years ago , the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) was telling everyone that general practitioner contracts would result in less time being spent with patients ? |
| 8 | To be a good manager requires one to handle this array in such a way that education is fed and fostered — education which is provided by teachers , encouraged by parents , watched over by governors , expected to be accountable to central and local government and capable of satisfying everyone that high quality is delivered . |
| 9 | Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly . |
| 10 | He convinced himself that speaking Italian to Franco presented a good opportunity to learn and therefore he should take up the challenge . |
| 11 | Partly it is to give you that extra pace which the active , probing , investigating story requires . |
| 12 | What will give you that extra bite of interest is something like — and here I stop and open my indexed notebook of Victoriana ( and I advise you to keep a similar book for your chosen period ) and I find under " B " : boiled mutton on the sideboard for breakfast . |
| 13 | That 'll be perfectly all right — Rose was out of her mind buying you that ridiculous creation anyway , far too low cut and tight in the bust . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As I was saying , Christina , I can assure you that Tropical Island Interiors will take all the worry and stress out of furnishing Crystal Springs Hotel . ’ |
| 15 | When we tell you that baked beans on toast ( as long as the toast is made with wholemeal bread ) is one of the best high-fibre meals you can eat , it should give great reassurance to those who enjoy the more homely delights of the table . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you that bloody idiot who does golf for the News ? ’ was his opening salvo ; and things got worse when Toby , never able to turn the verbal cheek , even to a large and extremely aggressive drunk , proceeded to tell him his opinion of Scottish golfers in general and of unwelcome Scottish drunks in particular . |
| 17 | Any journalist will tell you that British rugby union players , with two or three beguiling exceptions , are hardest to get anything out of worth printing . |
| 18 | Any journalist will tell you that British rugby union players , with two or three beguiling exceptions , are hardest to get anything out of worth printing . |
| 19 | Further to the query by Mr P. Ridgley of Oldham regarding copal varnish ( WW/June 91/p.557 ) , we would inform you that copal varnishes were manufactured from fossilised resins , mainly obtained from the Congo . |
| 20 | A fifteen-second refresher gives you that vital pause which will enable you to speechread for longer stretches at a time than would be possible otherwise . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't let anyone ever tell you that fat folk do n't feel the cold just as much as you skinny ones . |
| 22 | ‘ Has n't it struck you that Jumbo Jardine 's loose tongue operates in two ways ? |
| 23 | It follows , therefore , that this contingency insurance will , subject to its terms and conditions , indemnify the bank/organisation in the event of a claim arising from an insured peril in respect of such properties where the original policy is found for some reason not to be sufficient to protect the bank's/organisation 's interest and so long as the bank/organisation took the initial step , inter alia , reasonably to satisfy itself that adequate insurance arrangements had been made by the mortgagor . |
| 24 | This was particularly appropriate because the ‘ Flickers ’ did just that ; they moved , ran , fell off bridges , drove trains through parlours , rode wild horses , attacked poor wee Indians , flew aeroplanes , and rammed just about every aspect of everything that normal people never did , on to a square screen in the local box of delights known as ‘ The Picters ’ , ‘ The Flicks ’ , or if you came from Clarkston , High Burnside , Shawlands or Jordanhill , ‘ The Cineemaaa ’ … |
| 25 | Gary says : In gliding , disabled people can do everything that other people can do . |
| 26 | Everything that terrible man laid in the way between them was a test or a trap , and all his will was bent to break the son as he could not break the father . |
| 27 | The brainchild of Reuben Mattus , whose family had been making ice-cream in the Bronx since the 1920s Haagen-Dazs was planned to be everything that standard ice-creams were not . |
| 28 | They were looking , he told the delegates , for a socialism that ‘ renounced everything that deformed socialism in the 1930s and that led to its stagnation in the 1970s ’ , a socialism that would inherit the ‘ best elements ’ of the thinking of its founding fathers together with the constructive achievements of other countries and social systems . |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't just ignore everything that medical science has taught us . ’ |
| 30 | With its assertion of militarism , voluntarism and adventurism , it stands for everything that orthodox Marxists in Latin America had been arguing against for years . |