Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refusal ‘ Clyde Walcott , the match referee , was entirely satisfied that nothing illegal had been done to the ball at the Oval and we want to point out that there was no suggestion of it being tampered with . ’ |
| 2 | Indians believe that nothing much happens to bandits any more since so many of them have links with politicians , and some have even become ministers . |
| 3 | The evidence is , in the case of corporate crime , that nothing much happens by way of public scandal and social ruin . |
| 4 | In the shadow of Mount Etna it seemed that nothing much had changed . |
| 5 | But this also held the depressing implication that nothing much had changed since 1981 , and that the antiracist movement had largely failed to shift either popular attitudes or state policies . |
| 6 | And it was easy to be reassured by pastoral images on the packaging and in the advertising that nothing much had changed ‘ down on the farm ’ . |
| 7 | Today 's caddie will probably tell you that nothing much has changed since 1560 ! |
| 8 | The general feeling that one gets from reading this novel is that nothing much has changed and that the cold-war machinations are still at play and are as irrelevant and as brutal as ever . |
| 9 | ‘ Why do I get the feeling that nothing much has changed since … oh , I do n't know , Biblical times . ’ |
| 10 | September will see a much grander array of weird shaped balloons , so the organisers will be keeping their fingers crossed that nothing serious happens again . |
| 11 | They exclaimed and condoled , with — once I had assured them that nothing serious had happened to my brother — a rather charming mixture of sympathy for me and pleasure in the excitement of the news . |
| 12 | Later , he used the opening of the Cortes , on 17 May 1952 , and the International Eucharistic Congress , held in Barcelona in June , to indicate that nothing essential had changed . |
| 13 | ‘ If he hears rumours about what happened at the museum I want him to know that nothing terrible happened after all . ’ |
| 14 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 15 | In Ryan [ 19921 Crim.L.R. 187 , where the identifying witness was brought to and conducted around the police station where the parade took place by officers involved in the investigation , the Court of Appeal regarded what had occurred as a ‘ substantial breach ’ of the Code , and the subsequent identification of the suspect was admitted in evidence only because there was proof that nothing untoward had in fact been said to the witness by the officers in question . |
| 16 | Even when he was resting the horseman had to be on the alert for incidents like this to see that nothing untoward happened to his team . |
| 17 | Contacts down in New Orleans at the Unix International annual members meeting , where reporters are barred , called in last week as we went to press to say that nothing substantive had happened yet that would move the industry further down the unity path . |
| 18 | If the primary purpose of the thesis is to add to knowledge , then failure to publish suggests that nothing new has been added . |
| 19 | If the primary purpose of the thesis is to add to knowledge , then failure to publish suggests that nothing new has been added . |
| 20 | Thus , in the case of Parchment , the police committed what would have been a number of breaches of the rules had the accused been in the police station , but , simply because the supposed infractions had taken place before his arrival , the crown court held that nothing wrongful had occurred . |
| 21 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 22 | Perhaps this reflects no more than the elevation of masculinity that permeates the canteen culture of the station , but the view that nothing busy happens in the unit and that it is an ‘ easy turn ’ is a sad reflection on how the marginalization of policewomen 's duties has divorced some policemen from the reality of sex crimes . |
| 23 | It transpired that nothing dramatic had happened since they had left : tests on pairs of scissors at TVL headquarters were getting under way and Hugh Parnham , the third candidate for the Inside Out presenter 's job , had phoned from Scotland to say he would be back in London the next day for an interview . |
| 24 | It seems to me a matter of the highest possible importance that where a quasi-judicial function is being exercised , under such circumstances as it had to be exercised here , with the result of depriving people of their property , especially if it is done without compensation , the persons concerned should be satisfied that nothing unfair has been done in the matter , and that ex parte statements have not been heard before the decision has been given without any chance for the person concerned to refute those statements . |
| 25 | Pressed to state whether he was satisfied that nothing illegitimate had been taking place , Stewart was evasive . |
| 26 | But the Treasury issued a counter-statement saying that nothing improper had been asked of civil servants by ministers . |
| 27 | Instead , they got themselves into a thoroughly embarrassing mess , saying they accepted Gatting 's statement that nothing improper had taken place but sacking him all the same . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's stuff that I like that them two do n't , and vice versa , but we 've got enough in common and we respect each other . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It 's true that my cv reads like that of a Conservative , ’ says Mr Smith , a former consultant opthalmic surgeon to the RAF . |
| 30 | It was in 1945 , as a 13-year-old schoolboy witnessing the general election campaign , that I first had aspirations to become a Member of this House . |