Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the commercial benefits to Visa of retaining the data do not outweigh the costs of their retention then there can be little hope that such data will be accessible to historians in the future . |
| 2 | We mentioned earlier in this chapter that some people feel uncomfortable or trapped by the public contract of marriage , yet still allow themselves to be married . |
| 3 | Another rule that worried people on first reading , and I can understand why , is the rule relating to political activity in this country . |
| 4 | It is worth mentioning at this point that many people who were adopted as babies feel the need in midlife to search out their natural parents . |
| 5 | It is at this point that elderly people often lose out , such is the pressure to give top priority to protective work with small children . |
| 6 | Although the traditional concept of the map is changing , paper maps will continue to be widely used , because their use requires low technology ( a pair of eyes , or even one eye ) , they are cheap to produce in large quantities , easy to store , and are well understood by the map-using community , although there is some evidence that many people are unable to relate the pattern on a map to the corresponding real-world features . |
| 7 | So satisfactory was this knowledge that many people were content with nothing else . |
| 8 | And again there is a suggestion put forward to support this theory that local people wo n't have access to housing , and the suggestion is that ou that migrants have the ability to outbid locals . |
| 9 | Double jacquard is so fashionable this season that most people would love to receive a sweater or jacket knitted by this technique . |
| 10 | This assumption that big means better can be questioned . |
| 11 | It is clear from this survey that elderly people continue to need the affirmation of self which sexual expression can bring . |
| 12 | It is now part of the history of this country that many people came here to try to avoid the holocaust that Nazi Germany became . |
| 13 | Barrie Irving of the Police Foundation is quoted as saying : ’ There is much evidence that more people are going out with knives . |
| 14 | However , with three exceptions , there was little evidence that disabled people and their organisations were properly consulted about the kind of service which they wanted . |
| 15 | Back to that news that five people have been killed and another five seriously injured in a motorway pile-up . |
| 16 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 17 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |
| 18 | On the same day that The Boomtown Rats play Leixlip Castle in Dublin to 14,000 people , that Bob Geldof sweeps out on stage screaming ‘ Who 's won ? ’ referring to the battle with Dublin eldermen for the right to play ; the same day that 30 people are hurt and Geldof refers to Ireland as a ‘ banana republic ’ and a ‘ despicable nation ’ , U2 appear at the Garden Of Eden club in Tullermeny . |
| 19 | Is it any surprise that some people took that example and ran up horrendous debts ? |
| 20 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 21 | For even if we achieve the objective of a full franchise then the purpose of that full franchise will not work for disabled people if they do n't have full access to polling stations , they only then have the alternative of using postal or proxy votes and not exercising their franchise in the same way that able-bodied people er will do and their full right are part of the measure that I 'm seeking the house to agree that I should pursue . |
| 22 | Now we could n't be in any doubt that some people were not to be trusted . |
| 23 | For awareness of Mystery brings a paradox : at the same time that religious people claim to have knowledge of this Mystery they become more deeply aware that it is infinitely beyond any understanding . |
| 24 | There can be little doubt that some people in early Anglo-Saxon England were dealing in gold and were concerned about quality and quantity , and it does not matter if the balances were the property of foreign traders because the implication remains that transactions were taking place . |
| 25 | That should not be surprising , because when asked to name one favourite flower , beautiful above all others , again there can be little doubt that most people — in Britain at any rate , and whether gardeners or not — would choose the rose . |