Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close . |
| 2 | It was quite clear to me that 260,000 people would be reduced very substantially and that for every person who was made redundant in British Steel , seven people were affected — another three in the family , plus the people serving that family in the shops and in other ways . |
| 3 | It is a source of some regret to me that this column will not be here to report the changes . |
| 4 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 5 | At present the flysheet is vivid purple and sky blue but Ariel tell me that this tent will appear in apple green and gold for next season . |
| 6 | It struck me that this place must be fairly normal as lodging houses go , for on the whole the lodgers did not complain . |
| 7 | ‘ It seems to me that this practice will only pay its way because of what they now call ‘ companion animals ’ . |
| 8 | In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic . |
| 9 | They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits . |
| 10 | It has n't occurred to them that some people might actually have to survive on any money they 're given . ’ |
| 11 | I am afraid that I can not agree with you that all rivers should simply be recognized as public rights of way , attractive though that might appear . |
| 12 | But where erosion has removed the outer shell , the elegant curving walls of the flotation chambers that are revealed remind you that these creatures may well have been virtually weightless in water . |
| 13 | What about if I suggested to you that some people would think that being anti-vivisection was in bad taste , how would you answer the point ? |
| 14 | ‘ I have to inform you that this street will be evacuated this afternoon between nineteen and twenty hundred hours . |
| 15 | I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment ! |
| 16 | I hated the growing fear my father ( and we ) shared during his illness , that he would mess the bed , and once suggested to him that all families should be required once a month to show each other the contents of their potties . |
| 17 | There was a light about him that all onlookers could see . |
| 18 | I have told him that COED CYMRU can have eight pages , provided he can raise a minimum of £1,000 to cover its production costs . |
| 19 | He said the figures excluded urgent treatment cases and Darlington GPs had said to him that such cases could be dealt with in a matter of days . |
| 20 | You ca n't falsely tell him that criminal proceedings will be taken as a result of non-payment . |
| 21 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 22 | Commentators claimed that Mubarak was enraged and embarrassed by Iraq 's invasion , after he had announced in late July [ see p. 37632 above ] that Saddam had assured him that Iraqi forces would not move into Kuwait . |
| 23 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 24 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
| 25 | Harry could see the realization dawning on her that small talk would be wasted on this guest . |
| 26 | She was going to say ‘ industry ’ , but it occurred to her that this admission would come oddly from an expert on the Industrial Novel . |
| 27 | My father was the only one of her relations who dared to tell her that this man should not be trusted . |
| 28 | And you think when , when you get one that 's not as good , you think well why do they why is it that that speaker ca n't give such a good talk , why is he giving a talk ? |
| 29 | Why was it that one laugh could make her forget how maddeningly single-minded he was ? |
| 30 | Why is it that those countries can accept basic , decent minimum standards for their people whereas this Government will not accept them for the British people ? |