Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My recent visit has convinced me that that kind of solution is now dead . |
| 2 | For the sake of this exercise , it matters little that , as a Soviet planner , I fail to narrow the gap between my compressor technology and yours ; nor does it concern me that one rouble of imported Western equipment requires five roubles in investment support : if the six roubles I invest produce fifty roubles of output , how have I injured myself ? |
| 3 | It seems to me that this explosion of energy has been drained of its radical potential , diverted into areas of service provision which should be the State 's concern . |
| 4 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 5 | It seems to me that this way of looking at things is the only one which allows us to understand the validity of the second law , and the heat death of each individual world , without invoking a unidimensional change of the entire universe from a definite initial state to a final state . ’ |
| 6 | Some of my colleagues have suggested to me that this account of the survival value of the god meme begs the question . |
| 7 | They told me that this sort of thing happens , it 's part of training , and to stick in there and show the buggers they were wrong . ’ |
| 8 | Given that privacy is plausibly one of the necessary conditions for being an explication of consciousness ( see below ) , it seems to me that any establishment of an interesting sense of machine privacy must be relevant . |
| 9 | What will give you that extra bite of interest is something like — and here I stop and open my indexed notebook of Victoriana ( and I advise you to keep a similar book for your chosen period ) and I find under " B " : boiled mutton on the sideboard for breakfast . |
| 10 | , you are with us today and I assure you that all members of of Council join me in conveying our love , affection and good wishes to you . |
| 11 | ‘ As to that machine paying for itself , let me tell you that one side of one tube alone has thirty-nine thousand rivets to be inserted . |
| 12 | I do n't know , I do n't know , although I ought to warn you that another way of interpreting the Greek would be , but now a man wishes to be another approached that man . |
| 13 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 14 | There is neither Jewish nor Gentile bias in this chronicler of the Holy Spirit 's initiative in mission throughout the world , though his application of the famous ‘ blinding ’ passage of Isaiah 6 to Jewish leaders who refused to receive their Messiah , and his assertion , ‘ Be it known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the gentiles : they will listen ’ ( 28:25–28 ) , is suggestive of the direction in which the Christian mission would , for the most part , go . |
| 15 | However , I must remind you that earlier versions of the principle of nationality , which I describe in my book as the ‘ revolutionary-democratic ’ and ‘ liberal ’ , are not so based , although there are overlaps . |
| 16 | ‘ I must warn you that any mention of Clare agitates your grandmother . |
| 17 | I put it to you that any alteration of Church Lane at any point between the A Nineteen and the centre of the village would be seriously detrimental to the existing character of that area . |
| 18 | Actually , he admitted in private that Sir Isidore Salmon had told him that continued support of the British Union of Fascists would mean the withdrawal of all Lyons 's advertisements from the Daily Mail , as well as any other financial inconveniences which could be arranged . |
| 19 | The Director General , before considering a complaint , may require the complainant to satisfy him that alternative methods of dealing with the matter have been tried and found inadequate . |
| 20 | ‘ At the moment , it seems impossible to convince him that any kind of action at all is necessary . ’ |
| 21 | Thirdly I can tell him that eighty percent of prescribed items are now free of charge compared with sixty percent in nineteen seventy nine . |
| 22 | I can also tell him that urban aid of £9.7 million has been made available over the years for homelessness projects in Scotland . |
| 23 | Also on Feb. 24 Qian had an unscheduled meeting with Takeshita when he told him that full normalization of Sino-Japanese relations could hinge on Japan 's " correct understanding of history " . |
| 24 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 25 | It suddenly occurred to her that total disregard of her escapade was a very subtle punishment indeed . |
| 26 | He looked upwards now at the bunting stretched across the girders of the platform , then said , ‘ With a little imagination you know I could dismiss the Coronation and take it that this show of affection was all for my being twenty-one today . |
| 27 | A description in G.Paynes ' Collectania Cantiana tells us that four vases of black ware , one of reddish colour , two cups of imitation Samian ware , two black paterae and the neck of a large goblet with handle were found at a depth of four feet at the feet of ten human skeletons . |
| 28 | They remind us that these types of behaviour are not necessarily confined to those with dementia . |
| 29 | Officials refused to indicate the exact origin of the material but did say that " experience tells us that this kind of material comes from Eastern Europe " . |
| 30 | He addresses Dame Sirith imperiously , and with a French expression : But Dame Sirith 's final words remind us that this courtliness of expression is located in a fabliau in which the actions and attitudes are as commercial ( pris , mede ) and as crude , sexually , as in any French counterpart : These lines do not quite move into the register of marked language that we have seen in the French fabliaux and shall see in Chaucer 's English fabliaux except in so far as references to women 's thighs do not find a place in the conventional rhetorical portrayal of a courtly lady . |