Example sentences of "[pron] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 He believed there was nothing that medical science could have done to have changed the tragic outcome .
4 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 ?
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He convinced himself that speaking Italian to Franco presented a good opportunity to learn and therefore he should take up the challenge .
8 Partly it is to give you that extra pace which the active , probing , investigating story requires .
9 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 .
10 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 . ’
11 ‘ 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 . ’
12 ‘ 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 ‘ You ca n't just ignore everything that medical science has taught us . ’
20 ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson .
21 Your body — even if it ca n't do Mr Kent 's maths tests or win the high jump — remains something that modern science can not copy .
22 Typically , his history takes the form of establishing a concept of something that chronological history would assume had no history , for example , madness , or sexuality .
23 The sixteen and a half foot long great white shark matched the description of one that killed diver John Ford on Wednesday off the resort town of Byron
24 W E Lambert who was the one that match-guise technique erm and basically he 's just kind of saying about the technique that it shows corre correlations between the degree of bilingual ability and attitudinal dispositions .
25 However , even if one takes the view that King 's Cross is essential , there are better and more appropriate ways of building and developing a new station at King 's Cross than the one that British Rail has effectively forced upon us .
26 She could n't allow herself that brief moment of hope , only to find herself right back where she had started .
27 Smile , just to annoy everybody that blue Datsun says on
28 Webb-Bowen had about him that healthy gloss which derives from subscriptions paid annually by Coutt 's banker 's order to either BUPA or PPP .
29 It was the war itself which convinced him that economic planning by the State was necessary to prevent a return to mass unemployment .
30 I also reassured him that European Community funding arrangements are in place , ’ he said .
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