Example sentences of "[art] [adj] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Danzig authorities immediately began to drag out the renewal of the Accord and , hoping perhaps to stop the visit altogether , told the British that all procedures were in temporary suspension and that this would prevent the Poles from greeting the British in the agreed manner . |
| 2 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 3 | So we must surely deduce from the following that those Pressmen on the panel were voting about something they had never actually experienced ! |
| 4 | The ministry had recruited about 170 extra clerical staff to run the BSPS system — not the 400-500 that some organisations had alleged . |
| 5 | Conflict between the COS and the evangelicals was almost inevitable given the view of the latter that any soul was worthy of salvation . |
| 6 | It must make it all the harder that this reception has availed so little in the result … still this is n't the end of everything . |
| 7 | But then the BBC or Radio Free Europe would confirm the incomprehensible that this president or that queen had honoured Ceauşescu . |
| 8 | The thick stone walls were not awesomely perfect here , but a combination of the found and the finished that any dyker would appreciate . |
| 9 | Staff need , however , to strike a delicate balance between giving optimistic support and encouragement on the one hand and accepting on the other that some individuals do not wish to , or can not , change as a result of disability and may need to be helped , therefore , to cope with permanent social impairments and distressing symptoms . |
| 10 | There are probably other examples , but these are the two that most spring to mind while contemplating William on his park bench . |
| 11 | Often the best that one engineer can do is , in any case , exceeded by the best that another engineer can do , especially another who lives later in the history of technology . |
| 12 | The concrete plinth exhibited similar stoicism , having withstood the best that several generations of secondary schoolboys could formulate and explode against it . |
| 13 | Our training is the best that any union can offer . |
| 14 | By refreshing the Ringbearer it does the best that any water could . |
| 15 | Indeed , the internal acrimony levelled against him at times has been such that , when his departure was announced , the best that some figures within the health network could say was ‘ we 'll be very happy to wish him goodbye ’ . |
| 16 | A clinical decision had been made in the 1960s that this hospital should serve elderly people , while the other two hospitals would care for acute admissions and the ‘ chronic ’ long-stay population . |
| 17 | Soviet spokesmen naturally used various arguments to encourage the neutralists to work for the dissolution of CENTO and SEATO , but Soviet leaders may have recognised already in the 1960s that these alliances were operating more effectively as political symbols than as military structures . |
| 18 | They wanted to hug , cuddle , kiss , make daisy chains and watch the ducklings running on the surface of the lake , but one was told to grow up and pay back the beastly Jews who were wicked people and had put daddy Schicklgruber out of work , another that anyone who did n't enjoy riding bare back across Asia splitting skulls was a sissy , the third that all Mensheviks carried a knife up their sleeve and needed purging . |
| 19 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 20 | The guitar 's overall finish is faultless : the vintage turquoise body and clear lacquered neck set a standard that many manufacturers would love to emulate . |