Example sentences of "[adj] [that] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | It was significant that during a press conference called on 18 May 1960 Khrushchev not only denounced Eisenhower but also asserted the importance of the Cuban revolution , which had suddenly become the subject of enthusiastic and laudatory articles in the Soviet press . |
| 62 | It is true that over a decade when the senior civil service was moving from being primarily regulatory in outlook to being primarily managerial , there was a lack of research , of assessment of situations before action could be properly planned . |
| 63 | It is true that at a rehearsal where the eye has nothing to engage it , a recitative immediately becomes boring ; but at the performance , where between the stage and the audience there are so many objects to entertain the eye , a recitative like this is over before the listeners are aware of it . |
| 64 | It is true that at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in April — May 1946 Byrnes seemed unusually eager to exchange views and to talk in broad terms of how Soviet influence in the Middle East and elsewhere might be resisted . |