Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | It is also in the technical field that women are noticeably absent . |
| 6 | There has been an uncanny duplication of the pre-election economic chaos that Argentina experienced in May . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Within her narrow experience that man had made many people undeservedly wretched . |
| 12 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 13 | Family ties , however , did not prevent Victoria 's clear-headed assessment that intervention was useless . |
| 14 | It by no means follows from the fact that x is a recognised authority in a discipline or professional field that x has authority to teach . |
| 15 | May I say how welcome is the strong support that Great Britain has given to the Baltic states ? |
| 16 | As Hugh Paddick recalls , he waited for every possible noise that Ken could produce — and it went on and on — and then there was silence . |
| 17 | But he also accepted that economics in turn influenced culture ; it was the version of Marxism which saw culture as a mere ‘ reflection ’ of the economic base that Weber was concerned to refute . |
| 18 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I 'm uttering a private prayer that Laura 's children will be on their best behaviour for you . |
| 19 | The rage for DIY restorations and pastiches continues unabated despite the recession , and owners of historic properties badly need the kind of specific guidance that Parissien provides . |
| 20 | On June 6 he told delegates at a seminar on promoting private investment that multipartyism would be established " in the near future " , warning at the same time that current conditions , notably the illiteracy rate of over 70 per cent , were " not adequate to meet the challenge of multipartyism " . |
| 21 | And then had come the awful perception that Helen too was vulnerable ; he had seen her exposed , humiliated , disappointed . |
| 22 | the possible distorting effect that technology has on attitudes to , and the availability of , other forms of health care — for example , preventive care and the often forgotten possibility of not doing anything ; |
| 23 | Even Apollinaire who , excited by the complete break that Cubism had effected with traditional painting , had tended to suggest that the ideal programme would be a move towards complete abstraction , could still insist that the Cubist was a realist , since his inspiration was drawn from some transcendental truth beyond the world of appearances . |
| 24 | There is a strong perception that multimedia products related to well-respected , successful books will have a greater chance of success because of that relationship . |
| 25 | It would , in any case , have been difficult to obtain unanimous support for the complete closure that Don Aldo Marangoni was advocating . |
| 26 | This is a comment not just on poetic style , but on the substance of the political alternative that Tate and some fellow Southerners were in these years trying to put together , to challenge the industrial capitalism of the restored Union . |
| 27 | That would be a decision of the officer in charge of the actual operation erm that was actually going into the flat but it was normal practice that radios would be switched off . |
| 28 | Our notion of Indians has been conditioned by the frontier mentality that saw them as savages inhabiting the geographic void that civilisation would tame . |
| 29 | The 12-page booklet also highlights the strange anomaly that VAT is exempted for home ‘ improvements ’ , but repairs are taxed . |
| 30 | In this context , although Mr Lawson supports the ERM , he too would be , no doubt , a narrow-minded nationalist when faced with the prospect of European Monetary Union , as would increasing numbers of German economists who argue on the basis of economic research that EMU is not necessarily an attractive option . |