Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | These words sum up her intention and feelings , expressing the result of two years of preparation for a show that came to mean so much for the many artists participating in the event . |
| 2 | There are a variety of reasons for a belief that structural adjustments to the EC budget are not over . |
| 3 | Earnings per share fell from 11.9p to 4.2p.The company took a £200,000 exceptional charge for bad debts on a contract for a firm that went into receivership in November . |
| 4 | Ltd. v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha [ 1962 ] , in which it was held that a term implied in a hire contract for a ship that it must be seaworthy was such an innominate term . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister , John Major , offered support during a visit that ended yesterday but said British troops would continue only their ground operation . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 've some crazy notion in that muddled excuse for a brain that I 've got designs on your person , allow me to disabuse you of it right now , ’ he told her bluntly , bringing hot , but thankfully invisible , colour to her cheeks . |
| 7 | I would be grateful of you would sign the attached copy of this letter and return it to me with the payment and contract as an indication that you agree to these restrictions . |
| 8 | I just go to bed at night and hope for a miracle that I 'll get up in the morning |
| 9 | The Iraqi missile attacks have provoked a wave of rare sympathy for a country that has been cast as the regional baddy . |
| 10 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 11 | Howard looks round the room , half-believing for a moment that the game he and Phil used to play might be coming to life after all . |
| 12 | However , because of the deeply held pessimism in Whitehall it was considered pointless to make detailed plans for an evacuation that would take place in an atmosphere of panic and confusion ; railway timetables would matter little if bombs were raining down . |
| 13 | All of us are aware of the problems of someone who was living alone and struggling to maintain a large house , but I am genuinely surprised at Conservative Members ' enthusiasm for a benefit that is clearly not targeted . |
| 14 | In the final quarter of the year , it surged and closed at its high of 330p , 24.5% up on the 30th September level ; this was more than twice what the FT 100 Share Index achieved and reflected investor enthusiasm for a group that is seen as a prime beneficiary of any pick up in advertising , has bags of room to take on new business ( 25% unutilised capacity on its magazine presses ) and is cash rich . |
| 15 | Critics have sniped that the dividing line between the political and the profit motive has never been too sharply defined on Hamnett 's agenda , a feeling provoked by such off-the-cuff comments as her enthusiasm for an idea that will ‘ make me rich and wo n't hurt animals ’ . |
| 16 | Chola had taken the bull 's high spirits and responsiveness to the mantri as a sign that the treatment was going to work . |
| 17 | If he does he will have cross-party support for a measure that the Tories said they were keen to implement . ’ |
| 18 | At the September Trades Union Congress , Frank Cousins came out strongly in favour of unilateralism , winning support for a resolution that rejected ‘ any defence policy based on the threat of the use of strategic nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 19 | There is scant support for a project that , if it goes ahead , can not fail to leave its mark on a remarkable stretch of untamed countryside . |
| 20 | But if he recommends support for an idea that does not work , he will hear all about it . ’ |
| 21 | THE SO-CALLED disease-of-the-month club is currently mustering legislative support for an objective that it almost reached in the last session of congress : creation of a separate headquarters for arthritis research at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) . |
| 22 | Of course as a plane that could happily take half a dozen buses on board , it 's going to be something of a new experience . |
| 23 | He petitioned the visitor of the university for a declaration that such purported dismissal was contrary to section 34 so as to be ultra vires the university 's powers and accordingly invalid . |
| 24 | You can remind people several times during a tour that he did n't actually live , then when you get to the end they 'll ask you where he 's buried . ’ |
| 25 | Upwards on 20,000 supporters are expected to flock to Limerick for a match that has evoked country-wide interest . |
| 26 | I 've just talked about what happens when a branch member wants to appeal but this is a branch as a whole that 's made a decision at a meeting that it does n't agree with something that 's happened . |
| 27 | Like Russian Formalism , Richards 's early work turns its back on positivistic scholarship , and calls for a criticism that deals directly with the distinctive properties of literature ; where he differs from the Formalists , however , is in defining these properties in terms of human experience and human value . |
| 28 | Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies . |
| 29 | There is little point in making light of the enormity of the task ahead , but this should not discourage those teachers with the vision and determination to continue the fight for a structure that encourages integration . |
| 30 | The Eastern Daily Press together with the Eastern Arts Board also gave money for a competition that hoped to find new art critics . |