Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creation of a captive insurance company may enable the group to save on premiums and to cover risks that their normal insurers do not ( eg excess claims ) . |
| 2 | As she looked up at him she saw such tenderness , such deep love in his eyes that her own filled with tears . |
| 3 | And there was such a look of stark relief in his eyes that his beloved cousin was safe , after all , that , just for a moment , to hide her own pain , Ronni had to drop her gaze away . |
| 4 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 5 | They get it into their heads that their fund-raising dinner for Hypothermic Pensioners In High Rise Blocks In Portsmouth will fall apart at the seams if Dillie Keane is n't there . |
| 6 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 7 | Graham Taylor 's stand-in captain even missed an 89th-minute penalty , which denied him the place in the history books that his brilliant individual display deserved . |
| 8 | The need for a centralized reference laboratory stemmed from the difficulty in persuading venereal-disease pathologists that their own test methods might need revising . |
| 9 | He made such noisy protestations that his nervous owner fled back into the waiting-room . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman appears not to understand the vast opportunities that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has announced today and the profits that Scotland is getting . |
| 11 | The connection proved useful as Korn/Ferry was initially strongly dependent on the multinational clients that its American offices supplied . |
| 12 | Partly that is because the people in power are primarily interested in the high-quality urban schools that their own children attend — and the best schools in Delhi or Nairobi are now the equal of any in the West . |
| 13 | FOLLOWING the massive increase in the popularity of rugby union as a result of the World Cup , and the demands that our top players now endure , surely it is time for British rugby union to go professional . |
| 14 | Something about its original vaunted status as a " Palace of the People " fired the imagination of anybody who came into contact with it , and overcame the doubts that its rocky track record as a business prospect might have occasioned . |
| 15 | Yet such is the burden of bad debts that their final results for the fiscal year to March , which have just been announced , are dismal . |
| 16 | It is important to note that if the pledge that the Labour party made at the last election had been carried through , dramatically less money would have been spent on health , for the reasons that my hon. Friend gave . |
| 17 | As it happens , I do not share the investments that my good friends the Labour party candidates happen to have made . |
| 18 | It is , however , illustrative of a growing feeling amongst Germans that their political leaders are out of touch . |
| 19 | As we have seen , the formal liberal democratic theory of bureaucracies was that officials ( sometimes called bureaucrats or civil servants ) simply implement the policies that their political masters — the representatives of the people — present to them in the form of laws and regulations . |
| 20 | Eliot made clear in Notes that his true concern was ‘ a problem of the first importance … that of the transmission of culture ’ . |
| 21 | The King 's Cross development may draw money away from the projects that my hon. Friend has listed . |
| 22 | An applicant for registration is asked , unless such confirmation has already been received , to produce confirmation from each of his or her home law societies , bars , chambers or courts that its professional rules do not prohibit practice in partnership with English solicitors in England and Wales . |
| 23 | And notwithstanding the invariable belief of these coaches that their own programme-of-the-moment is writ large on a tablet just descended from Heaven , there are no absolutes about which kind of exercises are best to get you fit over a short period of time . |
| 24 | Such groups tend to wield greater power in conflict situations than their members , and indeed the very existence of the groups may be seen to anticipate and perpetuate conflict , to harden and formalise a set of attitudes and values that their individual members may not themselves have recognised or expressed . |
| 25 | I have explained to King Henry many times that his worthy sister left Scotland of her own accord or , should I say , fled ? |
| 26 | ( I am reminded of a passage in a book by Doris Lessing , where she says : ‘ I want this court to condemn Volyen utterly , root and branch , for failing to instruct its young in the rules that its own psychologists and anthropologists have extracted from research and study : for failing to arm its youth with information that would enable it — the youth — to resist being swept away with any system of ideas that happens to be available ’ . ) |
| 27 | When I first moved into my present garden nine years ago I madly planted all those trees , shrubs and climbers that my previous garden , being rather small , would not allow . |
| 28 | Do the longer-term contracts that my hon. Friend 's statement envisages , which presumably depend on the longer-term view , take the prospects of a Mersey barrage any further ? |
| 29 | Would it be possible for other areas to be given housing action trusts , in addition to all the resources and programmes that my hon. Friend has mentioned ? |
| 30 | There are already signs that its great wealth and influence are beginning to regenerate the whole southern half of Africa , particularly the previously beleaguered states of Mozambique , Angola and Zambia . |