Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " 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 | They also offer relatively modest time allocations for practical and prevocational subjects in upper primary classes , a feature which may reflect a lack of real conviction by syllabus panels to respond to the political creed that such studies are necessary and profitable for primary level children , but may also be born of a firm realistic assessment of the lack of money and materials to make such studies workable . |
| 5 | Where Clarke was wrong was in his broad assessment that British science is being adequately funded . |
| 6 | It could be that the outer estates are approaching some kind of basic ‘ subsistence , level , where disposable income has reached such a low level that future increases in unemployment will begin to have a smaller effect in reducing local incomes per head , simply because so many people are already dependent on state benefits . |
| 7 | That is , the underlying holdings of serious reference works , older classics , local history and other works of more than ephemeral interest would fall to such a low level that most readers ' questions and serious enquiries could not be answered without outside help . |
| 8 | I just concentrated on making sure that it was comprehensive in terms of description and it was obvious from that description that certain choices and evaluations had been made . |
| 9 | If the commercial benefits to Visa of retaining the data do not outweigh the costs of their retention then there can be little hope that such data will be accessible to historians in the future . |
| 10 | There must also be professional judgement that further incidents are likely . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the meeting understood that " It has hitherto been the policy of this HQ and remains ( it is understood ) the advice of the British Resident Minister and the US Political Adviser that all classes and types of dissident and anti-Tito Jugoslavs who fall into the hands of Allied Forces either in Italy or in Austria should not be forced to return to Jugoslavia … " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The late 1950s and early 1960s were the heyday of the economic boom that Western Europe had entered in the early 1950s . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Ugandan capital Kampala has seen the devastating effect that civil war has on a sophisticated engineering scheme . |
| 18 | Peter Headicar and his colleage Bob Bixby argue that when the M40 was planned , no account was taken of the devastating effect that resulting projects would have on the countryside . |
| 19 | How well she knew — and who better ? — the devastating effect that this man 's presence could have on the female population . |
| 20 | Reports are always subjected to much criticism and it is only by writing in unexceptionable language for a specific readership that clear meanings are preserved . |
| 21 | At the end of three days of talks between the government and the ANC a government official on Dec. 4 expressed optimism that multiparty talks would resume by February 1993 . |
| 22 | This seems an odd reversal of the usual rule that Arctic animals are whiter , but otherwise they behaved as fulmar do in Shetland , appearing to spend much of their time flying and gliding over the sea . |
| 23 | Whereas conceptual art chooses to break the link between art and craft , it is this link that any painting re-enacts . |
| 24 | the Capriccio recording is fractionally the more detailed if not quite as atmospheric as the new Virgin , which lends a warmer sound to the instrumental support that many listeners may well prefer . |
| 25 | Moreover in The Tablet ( 16 April 1958 ) Shirley Williams pointed out another advantage that grant-maintained schools might have : Mr Baker has laid down that LEA schools must take in children up to the 1979 limit of numbers , so that as many parents as possible can get their children in , if they choose a particular school . |
| 26 | The Science Library holds a comprehensive collection of some 600 technical journals and it is in this field that new developments are first reported . |
| 27 | So keen is competition in this field that most photographers specialize in a single subject , for example , fashion , cars or food . |
| 28 | Will the hon. Gentleman give the House an assurance this afternoon that that practice will stop immediately ? |
| 29 | And there are other references throughout to , what I reply is a clear direction that most developments should be in erm in or closely related to settlements and , of course , that will be a matter addressed through through local plans . |
| 30 | Human existence , for Marx and Engels , occurs in terms of people 's concepts , which are incorporated in their mode of life and their subjective experience , but it is from man 's interaction with nature and from the history of this interaction that these ideas , beliefs , and values are created in the first place . |