Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the discussions of the mid-1970s it was hoped in some institutions that this step might be the forerunner of others involving greater delegation of powers . |
| 2 | In the first edition of this volume I pointed , optimistically , to some signs that this situation was changing slowly with , for example , the establishment of the Older Feminists Network in 1982 and the recent Age Concern/EOC joint initiative on incomes in old age . |
| 3 | In some cases that smiling face belongs to the wife of the managing director ! |
| 4 | It was only after some months that endothelial denudation was observed with platelet mural thrombus attached to exposed lipid-containing macrophages . |
| 5 | But I think in the few months that this administration has er , has been in office , it is encouraging to see that the county council is operating inside the budget , er , which I believe was actually set by the previous administration , erm , er over which we had no influence whatsoever . |
| 6 | The answer does not lie in saying that London has some advantages that other parts of the country do not enjoy . |
| 7 | The point here is that given the institutional and political realities of the formulation and implementation of nuclear policy , it would be difficult to characterise any rights to which the peace movement may wish to lay claim ( for example , the right to a nuclear-free world ) as legally protected ‘ choices ’ , especially given the insistence by some governments that nuclear policy is not a ‘ justiciable ’ issue ( Weiss , Chapter 11 ; but see Offczors and Ruete , Chapter 13 ; Hickman , Chapter 12 , all in this volume ) . |
| 8 | In this climate , it was only within these last few years that serious restoration work was initiated . |
| 9 | The impression has been strengthened in the past few years that macro-economic developments and policies are now essentially international in character . |
| 10 | Though there were complaints in some places that 1 January 1913 came and went with no settlement in sight and though seamen on weekly boats in Hull were aggrieved at receiving less than their colleagues elsewhere , 2s.6d increases on weekly wages and 10s on monthly were fairly readily conceded , more in some places . |
| 11 | Except for marine products , the few goods that polar regions yield are seldom valued highly enough to offset the high costs and risks of exploiting them . |
| 12 | It has been claimed by some writers that distinctive feature analysis is not irrelevant to the study of language learning , and that pronunciation difficulties experienced by learners are better seen as due to the need to learn a particular feature or combination of features than as the absence of particular phonemes . |
| 13 | I think in some ways that particular example illustrates a characteristic of microcomputer systems in general , and that is that from a technological point of view what we 're talking about is an extremely sophisticated approach to the problem , but the objective is very clear ; that you come down to perhaps maybe a quarter or an eighth the amount of copper in the wiring harness . |
| 14 | Even allowing for the surprising restraint that the media has shown in not reporting some instances that local residents would term ‘ a riot ’ , Britain remains a remarkably peaceful society , if the riot index is the only indicator used . |
| 15 | In the early 1480s there are some indications that English seamen were seeking to extend their activities . |
| 16 | There are some indications that inappropriate dedications were not approved : in Rome alone Augustus had eighty silver portraits of himself destroyed , declaring that such images were unsuited to portraiture of mortals . |
| 17 | For a few seconds that stony-visaged politician looked kindly and I realised that , apart from his mistress , Benjamin was one of the few people Wolsey really loved . |
| 18 | Defeat in five of the last six presidential elections had convinced some Democrats that fresh ideas were needed , while others call for a more forceful and enthusiastic avowal of liberal policies . |
| 19 | This central finding of the study was intensely controversial since it implied , firstly , that the USSR showed signs of fundamental weakness and was less of a ‘ threat ’ and , secondly , it appeared to run counter to the view of some econometricians that developing countries , especially those purchasing advanced foreign technology in large quantities , must eventually catch up . |
| 20 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 21 | But no prospective beneficiary will be free to arrive until 1991 or later , raising private fears among some MPs that continued flight will mean a de facto Chinese takeover long before 1997 . |
| 22 | But no prospective beneficiary will be free to arrive until 1991 or later , raising private fears among some MPs that continued flight will mean a de facto Chinese takeover long before 1997 . |
| 23 | By a similar slip of logic it is sometimes presumed in such discussions that voluntary bodies are the only or the main beneficiaries of voluntary help and cash aid . |
| 24 | In the discussion I have taken the necessity of quantification for granted ( although it sometimes happens in such communities that some patterns of variation are obvious without formal quantification ) . |
| 25 | It is by following up such topics that this subject can truly come alive for the reader — banking and finance ( domestic or international ) influence the everyday life of most people . |
| 26 | There is little excuse for allowing these situations to drift ; and it is in preventing such situations that professional practice based on research parts company from common sense and rules of thumb or the use of ‘ hunches ’ . |
| 27 | Such indications that young people may not view the CAB as being in touch with their attitudes and problems has prompted many bureaux to devise special outreach projects . |
| 28 | By last year the crisis had reached such proportions that Southern California introduced radical new regulations to control air pollution . |
| 29 | He has also brought a paraffin pressure stove ( though if Optimus or Primus I am not sure ) of such proportions that correct plumbing would allow it to centrally heat a sizeable town . |
| 30 | As we have shown elsewhere , however , it is not always the case in such examples that full merger within the language system has come about . |