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

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1 It seemed to me extraordinary that this man should have such immense authority in caste-ridden India ; yet no one has questioned his greatness .
2 The staff nurse said that she had thought it strange that this statement should have been volunteered ‘ out of the blue ’ moments after her mother had arrived .
3 Is it possible that some learning difficulties arise from the ways in which schools are organised and managed ?
4 That this Conference , while recording its desire to see working men in Parliament on the Unionist side , thinks it undesirable that any distinction should be made between them and other members , and therefore expresses the opinion that all Unionist organizations should select and support with all their power the best candidate they can find to represent their constituency , irrespective of his social and financial status .
5 Israel made it clear that such development would be primarily in social and welfare spheres , and would not include any kind of economic development which ran contrary to its interests .
6 This makes it clear that each pupil is entitled , as a result of the law , to a broad and balanced curriculum which is relevant to his or her particular needs .
7 We will be able shortly to debate those matters more fully in the House , but we have on many occasions made it clear that this Parliament will decide on the single currency issue at some date well into the future if and when it should arise .
8 As in much self-conscious fiction , we are constantly being reminded of the fictionality of the novel , but Verbivore makes it clear that this fictionality also applies to the ‘ simulations ’ of the media which its ‘ fictions ’ purportedly replace .
9 Criticisms within and without Parliament made it clear that this audit model of control was beginning to falter in the post-war period .
10 Bearing in mind the fact that Prince Metternich eventually left Vienna disguised in a laundry basket is not it clear that this incident is in the highest diplomatic tradition ?
11 We would like to make it clear that this delay was not caused by any default on the part of the defendant who is charged with their murder nor by his legal advisers .
12 He has also asked us to make it clear that this plan is in no sense intended to be fixed and final .
13 Even Weick does n't make it clear that this dilemma is not found only at the action level .
14 The lengthy preamble makes it clear that this Directive is a harmonisation measure requiring member states to equalise the level of protection granted to consumers when they enter into contracts with traders , businessmen or professionals .
15 His expression made it clear that any man or boy unlucky enough not to find another situation need not expect any sympathy : his place would have been filled .
16 Brezhnev himself , addressing the Polish party congress in November 1968 , made it clear that any threat to the socialist order in a given country would be considered ‘ not only a problem of the people of the country in question , but a general problem and concern of all the socialist countries ’ .
17 However , in a letter to the BMC , Longleat Estate have made it clear that any cleaning work necessary to stabilise climbs will be done on the advice of its own specialists , dependent on the interests of tourists and the estate 's employees and not undertaken from a climbing perspective .
18 Successive governments , however , have made it clear that any alteration of the state pension ages is unlikely .
19 And it has made it clear that any attempt to organise a system of regional arms control or supervision should exclude Israel .
20 One critic thought it ironic that this building ‘ of which the aim was so obviously beauty , should have achieved so startling an ugliness ’ , but after more than a century Swanage would hardly seem the same place without it .
21 Most of my constituents find it amazing that that part of the road is missing , given that it is a planned and agreed eastern relief road for city traffic .
22 The marketing blitz has raged at full tilt for some time now , making it likely that this blockbuster will live up to its imperial ambitions .
23 There was some role dissonance in the expectations of each side in this marriage , which made it likely that some kind of counselling help would be required at intervals .
24 You have always said that you think it important that this House should be given information first .
25 Like the last editions we 'd had , it was censored , but enough remained to make it plain that all hell had been let loose over The Satanic Verses .
26 Examining patients with and without uraemia enabled us to look at the gastric mucosal damage over a very wide range ( 43 fold ) of in vivo ammonia production making it unlikely that any association was missed .
27 The fact that some deaf people appear to use a completely different form of coding just as effectively , makes it essential that some re-assessment of the models be made .
28 Does he find it surprising that some Opposition Members are opposed to re-location ?
29 Is he aware that that drug is not grown on some poppy field in South America but that 98 per cent .
30 Is he aware that that Committee is charged with the responsibility of assessing the legal and political impact of EEC proposals on the United Kingdom and for its reports , together with the proposals , to be debated here before decisions are made by the Ministers concerned ?
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