Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , it was among the southern , pastoral peoples that social stratification had developed by that time , so that the label ‘ feudal ’ is attached , for instance , to the Buryat Mongols and the Tatars . |
| 2 | Byzantine architecture indeed continued to expand and change in lands in Eastern Europe during the same centuries that Medieval architecture was spreading across western countries . |
| 3 | Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service . |
| 4 | The signals that such interest rates might normally be expected to give initially had very little impact on investment policy , whether in determining the quantity or the type of capital projects undertaken . |
| 5 | The British played an important part in triggering off a European response to American signals that large-scale aid would be forthcoming only if the Europeans themselves demonstrated an ability to co-operate and to produce a programme for recovery which satisfied American criteria . |
| 6 | It was a flush of confusion and shame and despair , for she could see in his eyes that that stumble had condemned her . |
| 7 | When he 'd left London his face had had the pinched , strained look , the hollow eyes that long illness seem to give . |
| 8 | It is particularly striking that some of these reviewers , when discussing recordings by English ensembles , praise what they assume to be the impeccable musicological credentials of what they are hearing , so clear does it seem to European eyes that early-music performance in England is conducted under the vigilant eyes of scholars . |
| 9 | It refused to consider arguments on behalf of journalists that this broadcasting ban breached Article 10 of the Convention . |
| 10 | Our results do not , therefore , support the BSG guidelines that supplemental oxygen should be routinely used in the elderly . |
| 11 | But there are still worries that rising credit will only suck in more imports , as shoppers rush to buy computers , camcorders and other foreign goods . |
| 12 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 13 | It is worrying , therefore , that the NIRC in Hudson ( Birmingham ) Ltd v Winsper opined : ‘ If they [ the employers ] want to make it absolutely certain that no tribunal will dissent from their dismissing the driver who is convicted of dangerous driving , then they should , in fairness to themselves and the driver , post a notice or otherwise bring it to the attention of all their drivers that any conviction for dangerous driving , regardless of the circumstances which give rise to it , will lead to dismissal . |
| 14 | I am not persuaded that the jurisdiction of the visitor involves such exceptional considerations that this principle should be departed from and that some grounds be accepted and others held not to be available for the purposes of judicial review . |
| 15 | For completeness , the Report appended under the heading ‘ Project Appraisal ’ a questionnaire listing the considerations that any appraisal , whether of a proposed rescue , or conversion of an existing organisation to the co-operative form , or an entirely new start , would have to weigh . |
| 16 | Similar continuity of personnel in the Home and Welfare Ministries that administered labour affairs meant continuity in attitudes towards the ‘ obstruction of trade union organization and activity ’ ( Garon 1984 p.443 ) . |
| 17 | When it gets out of control , no matter how successful we are in the eyes of other people , in our heads that critical voice will tell us that we have failed . |
| 18 | ‘ You ca n't get it into some people 's heads that earlier planting risks frost damage and does n't give an earlier display ! ’ |
| 19 | The ‘ crucifix action ’ was one of the first indicators that massive criticism of the Party no longer necessarily excluded Hitler . |
| 20 | The old men in Beijing may not be sure of how to respond to the tactics that such behaviour makes possible ; certainly , previous governors chose to give them little experience of them , preferring the old , almost hallowed , practice of kowtowing to them . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher , urged on by her more forward-looking environment ministers , is struggling to adapt to the political imperatives that environmental protection have produced . |
| 22 | The early experience of the polytechnics and colleges has not been encouraging , with complaints from the Directors of Polytechnics that fierce competition was leading to the under-funding of courses and falling standards ; they also claimed that the Polytechnic and Colleges Funding Council was favouring diploma courses over degree work . |
| 23 | Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR . |
| 24 | These include all the watches and calculators that each member of the household has ( 10 ) , the laundry equipment ( 3 ) , an electric drill with electronic control , two radios , the hi-fi equipment ( 3 ) , two TVs , and video recorder , and two remote controllers for them , a home computer , word processor , and printer , three electronic alarm clocks , a food mixer , toaster , vacuum cleaner , and three dimmer switches for the lights . |
| 25 | Obsolete articles included stipulations that Finnish ground forces could not exceed 34,400 persons and that Finnish forces could not acquire submarines , guided missiles or bombers . |
| 26 | The correct sense is chosen by accessing the word 's sense definitions within the O.E.D. , then counting the words that each sense definition has in common with the definitions of the other words in the immediate context . |
| 27 | But I think in the few months that this administration has er , has been in office , it is encouraging to see that the county council is operating inside the budget , er , which I believe was actually set by the previous administration , erm , er over which we had no influence whatsoever . |
| 28 | It was only after some months that endothelial denudation was observed with platelet mural thrombus attached to exposed lipid-containing macrophages . |
| 29 | At the same time it was necessary to speculate as to how transient changes in neurotransmitters such as serotonin , or the flow of calcium ions across the synaptic membrane , might in turn trigger the specific synthesis of the new proteins that long-term memory demanded . |
| 30 | We believe that the development and evaluation of devices to measure this is the most practical and appropriate way of implementing the recommendation of a working party of the Royal College of Pathologists that further research should evaluate measures aimed at preventing blood contact between patients and health care workers . |