Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But I think that everyone concerned needs to realise that this is not a process without cost , nor one that can magically happen overnight .
2 Mr Lawson responded pleasantly : ‘ I am glad that my honourable friend raised that issue because , although it is an absurdity , it is believed by many people other than my honourable friend , who understandably picks up things that he hears other people say . ’
3 When my edication was finished , as they do say , I was took hum , seven months larning being all that my poor parents cud afford me , but I shall have to bless God to aull etarnity for that edication .
4 I noticed that my swaying foot had rubbed against him , leaving a dusty mark on his navy trousers .
5 He , too , was shocked to hear that my great expectations came from the prisoner I had helped so long ago , and when I introduced him to our guest , Herbert could hardly hide his dislike .
6 Until recently I should have rejected the premise that my earliest years represented some sort of attack upon my individuality and insisted that , on the contrary , I was surrounded with kindness and loving care — as indeed I was .
7 They reckoned that my extra weight had protected my heart , and I was also wearing heavy , rubber-soled safety boots .
8 again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself
9 Charlie did not know , at that time that I had also been hit in the chest and that my right lung had been punctured and had collapsed ’ .
10 We may find that my Golden Goose gets its scraggy little neck damaged in the normal course of play . ’
11 It all goes on in my head and I usually find that my first sketch depicts the piece I end up with .
12 Most of the equipment is stored in the boot and the problem I now faced was that my new car had a smaller , different shaped boot .
13 The only possible excuse for her behaviour is that my temporary excision has gone to her head .
14 They kept me in hospital for a week , even though after the first day they were able to tell me that my violent indigestion following my curry debauch had not dislodged — or even seriously inconvenienced my small passenger .
15 In other words , the total reproductive success that my parental investment has produced is now greater than it was before I started .
16 I decided that there might well be a few odd cancer cells lurking about that my immune system had n't spotted or had been too demoralized to deal with — and anyway , was n't I , like everyone else , making thousands of cancer cells every day ?
17 No test was available for HTLV3 ( as it was then called ) , but an immunologist established that my immune system had abnormalities .
18 I replied that I had not done so-that I was happy in the Foreign Office , and in the House of Lords which I had never contemplated leaving , and that it was in these fields that my strong preferences lay .
19 ‘ He advised them that my stated intention to vote against would put the Prime Minister 's future at risk .
20 A lot of people said last year that I should n't have had a factory bike , so I was happy that my early results demonstrated I was worthy of an NSR .
21 a boys ' school and the headmaster there advised me not to put him there , he said send him to Newport Grammar school it 's the best school in Essex , best grammar school in Essex and he said that my two boys go there
22 I felt myself being pulled backwards , upwards , so that my visual field did indeed resemble that of a camera , a camera in some computer-graphics title sequence .
23 I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content .
24 After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared .
25 Judith Searle 's elder son , Matthew , is now eighteen : ‘ It has been a source of real satisfaction that my elder boy has this month ( October , 1990 ) joined Wadham as a mathematician , so I can start all over again . ’
26 The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s .
27 They were perfectly civil but I sensed that my private engagements had a pretty low priority .
28 It was her duty to tell me — a ‘ mother 's duty ’ — that my obstinate refusal to comply with Jean-Claude 's wishes meant I was becoming a burden to him .
29 I believe that my provisional proposals remain appropriate .
30 It was a miracle that my tortured body had n't been found in a disposal somewhere !
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