Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew he had a private hope that some day he might make a book with them . |
| 2 | An illustration of the economic damage that flexible exchange rates can inflict is provided by the experience of the UK during 1979 – 81 . |
| 3 | Apart from the inherent improbability that trained intelligence agents would simply add an armed suitcase bomb tagged for New York-JFK to a pile of international luggage waiting to be loaded in Luqa and then trust to luck that , unescorted , the bomb would get through the baggage-handling and security arrangements of two other major airports and be loaded aboard the target aircraft before the timer triggered an explosion , there remained the problem with the provenance and reliability of the Frankfurt baggage-list that was said to have identified the suitcase in the first place . |
| 4 | Where Clarke was wrong was in his broad assessment that British science is being adequately funded . |
| 5 | Above all , it is at the European level that expanding aid programmes could be devised to stimulate a widening of trade and recovery in the south and east . |
| 6 | It is a telling comment on ninth-century political practice that this humiliation , according to Nithard , brought Bernard into a more accommodating frame of mind . |
| 7 | The implicit argument is almost a feudal recognition that such land is given conditionally and that where the obligation is broken the gift shall revert , on action , to the donor , founder or patron . |
| 8 | In 1981 a leaked memo from the Chief Medical Officer at the DHSS warned of the dangers to young children 's intelligence posed by lead in petrol , and in 1983 a Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution published a strong recommendation that immediate action should be taken to remove lead from petrol . |
| 9 | The Ugandan capital Kampala has seen the devastating effect that civil war has on a sophisticated engineering scheme . |
| 10 | How well she knew — and who better ? — the devastating effect that this man 's presence could have on the female population . |
| 11 | Whereas conceptual art chooses to break the link between art and craft , it is this link that any painting re-enacts . |
| 12 | Will the hon. Gentleman give the House an assurance this afternoon that that practice will stop immediately ? |
| 13 | In this instance that old racing saying : ‘ Back the outsider of three ’ was certainly true ! |
| 14 | Japan , too , is highlighted as part of the huge Japan Festival which is running for three months in Northern Ireland and throughout Britain — but , yes , it was another coincidence that Scottish Opera chose to offer us Madama Butterfly ! |
| 15 | A One easy way to give naturally curly hair that perfect ringlet look just like you see in magazine pictures is simply to shampoo and rinse your hair and afterwards comb an even amount of conditioner through the hair . |
| 16 | And yet to the world at large he claimed to have conducted a most detailed investigation into the whole matter , sufficient to enable him to arrive at an informed judgement that British policy remained correct . |
| 17 | Judging by this description that breathless voice probably belonged to none other than ‘ By Jove ’ Allison . |
| 18 | We would conclude from this study that exfoliative cytology for biliary strictures is simple to perform , highly specific , able to provide a diagnosis when other methods fail and should , therefore , be carried out routinely . |
| 19 | On this issue indeed the comparison with Eliot is inescapable , Eliot very early learned and bowed to the English rule that social amenity must not be disturbed — alike in his life-style and , after Poems 1920 , in his poetic style also , he observed this rule punctiliously . |
| 20 | But I do n't think reference has been made to a document that is referred to in P P G one , namely the doc the white paper , This Common Inheritance , er D O E document , and in that there 's a clear indication that this question of a new settlement erm should be considered , paragraph six point four eight reads , however well urban land is used , there will continue to be a need for building on greenfield sites , it is important that new housing on such sites is carefully placed to preserve the open countryside , and respects the quality of the landscape . |
| 21 | Campaigners in Scotland against corporal punishment welcomed the clear indication that this form of treatment of children was frowned upon , even though this case was lost . |
| 22 | The ICA saw ‘ no great merit ’ in the suggestion ; but Touche Ross supported it and made the further recommendation that each firm appoint a finance partner . |
| 23 | It could indeed be argued with some force that international morality was tending to improve slightly during this period . |
| 24 | It 's a funny wheel that funny wheel for it . |
| 25 | There is some fear that such resistance might pass into weed populations so making both them and " volunteer " crop plants more difficult to eradicate . |
| 26 | What suggestions are there in this extract that British influence in Europe was in decline during the middle decades of the nineteenth century ? |
| 27 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |
| 28 | Table 7.1 thus also supports the contention made in the first half hour of this chapter that short-term contract workers in the service sector are mainly " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 29 | Today we see that women who have the right qualities can exercise authority equally with men , but we are also coming to a fresh recognition that Christian leadership should always be seen as service . |
| 30 | Age discrimination is so intertwined with the social fabric that legal action must become the major objective . |