Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He observed that there are certain classes of English word combinations that neither syntax nor semantics can justify ; for example , although the words ’ strong ’ and ’ powerful ’ may have a similar meaning , people prefer saying ’ drink strong tea ’ to ’ powerful tea ’ and similarly prefer ’ drive a powerful car ’ to ’ strong car ’ . |
| 2 | A The ordination of women as priests is specifically excluded from its provisions , as is giving women permission to minister as priests and appointing them to certain offices that only priests may hold . |
| 3 | Faye began to struggle to sit up , but Belinda forestalled her , relieved that the other woman had n't commented on the tired bags beneath her eyes that even make-up could n't fully conceal . |
| 4 | Mrs Crumwallis 's medical ministrations were so notorious for their vagaries that even Toby , a healthy young man with no great tolerance of the sick , would not willingly subject a boy to them . |
| 5 | The governments of the FRG and the GDR reaffirm their declarations that only peace shall emanate from German soil . |
| 6 | However , it is from an understanding of some of the central issues embedded in these relationships that both schools and LEAs can reflect for the future . |
| 7 | He drew one of those pictures that only parents can appreciate . |
| 8 | A concordat of a sort had to be arranged with him , and this was done with mutual protestations that only misunderstanding had impaired goodwill . |
| 9 | What 's also come out very strongly er , in this programme is is that it 's a struggle for a lot of people , both financially , and in terms of juggling time and the multiple demands that particularly women have , in trying to care for young people and old people to the point where women may spend their entire lives between , between twenty and sixty looking after somebody or other . |
| 10 | Although their abstract states that neither men nor women taking atenolol experienced an increased rate of cancer , subgroup analysis shows that non-smoking men receiving atenolol had a significantly increased risk of dying of cancer ( relative risk 1.58 ) . |
| 11 | I think a lot of people are put off computing by the thought that it 's very technical and very difficult to get into , and I think in some ways it still is and there 's a sort of group of experts who rather jealously guard their knowledge , so in that sense , yes , they could short cut and remove skills that perhaps people should have . |
| 12 | Rigid plans that only work if they are adhered to at every step rarely provide the means for getting back on target once a significant deviation has occurred . |
| 13 | My car is a Metro , quite small compared with the many large cars without disabled badges that continually park ( presumably with this warden 's blessing ) in this particular road . |
| 14 | True , there are no signs that either Mr Major or Mr Kinnock would contemplate a coalition . |
| 15 | Indeed , so profound and all-pervading is the modern resentment of authority , restraint and control in all its forms that even types of protest which seem to be motivated by the highest ideals of civilized behaviour and the most tender manifestations of conscience can be shown to originate in it . |
| 16 | The point made by Mr Bishop about employment , shopping and other land I also wish to respond to , I think one of the other participants did mention the issue of existing provision , it 's been quite clear from the work of the Greater York authorities that certainly shopping terms there is an oversupply of shopping companies in and around the edge of the urban area at the present time , we have a number of major outstanding consents which have not yet been taken up . |
| 17 | Her tightly tailored strapless dress matched her lips exactly , as did the shoes that even Belinda recognised as highest quality Italian leather , the kind of leather with a fine grain that was almost like satin to the touch . |
| 18 | It is still a sore point with both grandparents that neither Alice nor Henry have been baptized . |
| 19 | " He has done so so often and in so many places that neither employers , nor agitators , nor his sailors pay much attention to his words " . |
| 20 | However , to save memory the programmers have cut off everyone 's legs , leaving sprites that only Basil Brush could identify with . |
| 21 | For instance , after she had said I would have remained in ignorance , the tree opens wisdoms way though secret she retire , the word secret catches up almost by a mechanical verbal train of association the thought and on it perhaps secret and then all these uneasy feelings that perhaps God 's so far away , or he was n't watching , or in some way or other he did n't actually see . |
| 22 | There is an empty throne within the throne room of our hearts that only God can fill . |
| 23 | Heseltine 's vision was of ‘ partnerships which recognise that there are some things that only governments can pay for , but also that the ingenuity and flexibility of the private sector is indispensable ’ ( p. 156 ) . |
| 24 | A conscious decision is needed to get government out of things the private sector does better and to concentrate government on the basic things that only governments can do . |
| 25 | Then there are the difficulties that both practitioners and policy makers face in utilizing research which is often focused on one particular field or issue when in reality , they have to make choices between different options . |
| 26 | At present , some centres use photographic records to follow patients with clinically atypical naevi , on the assumptions that only lesions that show evidence of progressive change need to be excised and that such change can be clinically detected at a time when evolving melanomas are thin and curable by local excision . |
| 27 | This pointed to the existence of the unicorn but now she was not sure whether it was a friend or an enemy , a beast with magical properties that only women could see or a creature to be feared and avoided . |
| 28 | There have been suggestions that both employers and employees may wish to curtail their involvement with these orders by recruitment policies and withdrawing labour respectively . |
| 29 | Moreover , the right hon. Gentleman said in terms that neither Iraq nor Argentina was in any way deterred from attacking British interests by reason of our possession of a nuclear weapon . |
| 30 | This eliminated the complex system of epicycles that both Copernicus and Ptolemy had found necessary . |