Example sentences of "[noun] that [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There are certain characteristics that any national curriculum should have .
2 President we should be under no illusion that this reactionary government will continue to attack local government to attack local to attack local government our public services are at the mercy of the fast-buck merchants within the private contractors who are bidding for council services .
3 It would be wrong not to acknowledge the allegation that that educational philosophy had , in practice , many damaging results in modern European higher education , for example the separation of students from professorial staff , so that the students were often left too much alone by professors who were much more interested in their own inquiries ; the free movement of students across universities and its impact on the coherence of the students ' programme of studies ; and the slow completion and very often non-completion by students of their courses .
4 We have seen in Section 5.2 that vibrational energy is quantized , with the result that each vibrational mode has a characteristic frequency .
5 The war intervened with the result that this urgent question was postponed for the time being .
6 It also seeks to identify the impacts that any extensive move to pluriactivity in farming families would have on regional economics .
7 In the Chinese opinion this amounted to ‘ telling those advocates of neutrality for Afghanistan that any political solution must conform to the Soviet condition of recognising the accomplished facts of the Soviet military invasion and the ‘ legitimacy ’ of the Karmal regime ’ .
8 It was a cruel irony that that this movement coincided with a muddled , patronising reluctance to admit that working-class life was culturally impoverished .
9 Nisbet ( 1979 ) has pointed out the irony that this new distrust may itself be a product of modern education , since a number of new approaches to teaching and learning encourage children to ‘ think for themselves ’ .
10 Please bear in mind that all Key holiday homes will provide at least some of the facilities and equipment of a higher classification .
11 As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead .
12 It is in my mind that this last outrage can not be allowed to pass , nor can I longer leave the handling of the affair to Prince Henry or his advisers .
13 There was no doubt in Matilda 's mind that this latest display of foulness by her father deserved severe punishment , and as she sat eating her awful fried fish and fried chips and ignoring the television , her brain went to work on various possibilities .
14 It should also be borne in mind that some high turnover projects contain a considerable element of government grants which are paid to the Council ‘ en bloc ’ for further distribution to participants .
15 It is important to bear in mind that these PC-based style analysers are only a guide to good textual construction .
16 The aircraft that this intrepid group had used was a large lumbering biplane dating back to the early 1930s .
17 There is always the lurking fear that some hostile critic will ask the returned voyager the old , but still highly relevant question : was his journey really necessary ?
18 There was real fear that this English homophobia would spread , especially with European harmonisation .
19 In Nick Darke 's Kissing the Pope , however , the Sandinistas are given unequivocal white-hat status : a visit to Nicaragua apparently convinced him and his director Roger Michell that that unhappy land was ‘ one of the world 's few areas of moral black and white ’ .
20 It 's a tragedy that more commercial use can not be made of the waterways .
21 It is a political tragedy that this whole subject has all but disappeared from the world 's agenda under the impact of the past three astonishing years in Europe .
22 ( 1981 ) from their five-year follow-up of sixty-five disturbed ( and therefore considered high-risk ) adolescents provide some tentative indication that such abnormal parenting may have some causal significance , but the evidence is not that strong .
23 As yet , though , there was no indication that this particular voyage of the Beagle was to be considered as one of the most important events of all time .
24 What is now becoming clear is that clozapine produces a build up of dopamine in different receptors from other neuroleptics , and this gives a strong indication that another neurochemical abnormality underlies at least some symptoms of the disorder .
25 It was included in small amounts in tonics as a stimulant , a practice that all modern pharmacology texts agree is useless and possibly dangerous .
26 This meant in practice that all foreign intervention , by the United States and Pakistan as well as the USSR , must come to an end ; secure guarantees must be provided that there would be no further intervention in Afghan affairs ; and the People 's Democratic Party ( which remained strongly Soviet-aligned ) was to be accorded a dominant position in any future Afghan government .
27 It also assumes that there has been no hidden export of Leicestershire 's residents to cheap ( and possibly nasty ) nursing homes elsewhere in Britain , a practice that some other health districts have been accused of .
28 However , the effect of requiring unanimity means in practice that any one constituent body has a right of veto .
29 But it is submitted that a ‘ body of persons ’ has a collective character independently of the question whether it is a mercantile body or not , which the law is bound to protect ; in other words that any such body can sue in respect of an imputation of any conduct whatsoever of which its agents , and therefore itself by its agents , can be guilty .
30 But the book does explore the emotional effect that this major change has on a small boy 's life in a clever and very unusual way .
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