Example sentences of "[pron] that [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To meet the needs of the present , it seems to me that as much precision as possible is used when deciding on the application of a pesticide . |
| 2 | Two doors shut the glass away when it was not in use , as if to remind me that too much self-admiration was unacceptable . |
| 3 | Kenneth rotated his shoulders as he drove , trying to ease the nagging pain in them that too much drink the night before always seemed to give him these days . |
| 4 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 5 | In the above , some attempt has been made to produce well-sounding harmony , but the whole-tone system has so little conflict within itself that almost any combination of notes can sound tolerable . |
| 6 | The interests of the child reside in obtaining the best possible education , something that only regular attendance at school can bestow . |
| 7 | Since the rise of semi-literate England as seen in the dissolution of so many libraries is something that only political action will be able to solve — in an age when , despite a decade of ‘ Thatcherism ’ and a supposed return to Victorian standards , the state is still all-powerful — it is suitable to end on a political note . |
| 8 | they offered me two for a boat , right and they offered me one while I was there , then I got home and they offered me one that late that evening , job , erm working like that was a Thursday and they wanted me to start on the week Monday , I could n't do it as it happens I had to give my weeks notice here get out there that quick , so I fucking said , I said to myself well they 've first day , they 're gon na offer me a few more , so yeah they offered me a couple more but way from so , a bit unlucky I , I wished I 'd fucking taken it |
| 9 | As I lay back on the clean white sheet tucked round the hard mattress of the sick room bed and faded into a temporary oblivion , I thought to myself that perhaps early retirement would be no bad thing to consider after all . |