Example sentences of "[that] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Chairman was a master printer , older than I was but an extremely good-looking man , so that my excitement had a sexual side as well as a political one . |
| 2 | But as I run my bath , I am reminded that my self has a physical outline . |
| 3 | The only thing that really happened was that my mum got a divorce in 1972 on the grounds that he had sexually assaulted me and there was mental cruelty to her . |
| 4 | A further family link with Eliot was momentarily established in 1941 by the fact that my sister attended a poetry reading by him under the auspices of the English Association . |
| 5 | How will I know that my child has a fair chance at Compact opportunities ? |
| 6 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 7 | It was difficult to convince him that my ability to hold a tape recorder did n't automatically furnish me with a degree in electronics . |
| 8 | ‘ If you really want to know , I was thinking how much I hate crowds , despite the fact that my job involves a lot of travelling . ’ |
| 9 | Let's just say that my father talks a lot about queers and why they should be flung into prison and the key thrown away . ’ |
| 10 | I remember being glad that my father had a job which did not need him to climb ladders . |
| 11 | At any rate she cut him short : ‘ Are you saying that my father had a shameful secret of some sort ? ’ |
| 12 | When you find out why Francis was killed you 'll also find that my father had a hand in it . ’ |
| 13 | Although the hon. Gentleman accepts that my announcement represents an improvement over the previous situation , I am anxious to see that those who want to serve have an opportunity to do so . |
| 14 | The tests on this sample confirmed the vet 's opinion that my dog has a metabolic disorder . |
| 15 | He will know that my Department gave a grant for a feasibility study into large-scale CHP in Leicester , but the scheme did not proceed . |
| 16 | Bearing in mind the fact that my constituents want a reliable and quality service , will he take steps today to confirm that the orders that are placed for the new Networker rolling stock will be supplied in the near future , for the betterment of the north-west Kent commuter ? |
| 17 | Except that my nose stopped a terrible blow ; |
| 18 | I 'm just happy that my results shut a few people up in 1990 . |
| 19 | I was surprised that my failure to get an audience for my paintings was so quickly overcome by the act of writing about them . |
| 20 | It even seems to me that my article constitutes a commentary which despite its broad irony nevertheless contains arguments Joseph Kosuth avoids . |
| 21 | ’ Because , ’ I said cleverly , ’ You know that my partner has a close connection with the FedPol . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's just that my mother lives a few miles away from there , in Blindenhall . ’ |
| 23 | But if it is discovered and threatened , it twists its legs outwards and arches its back in such an extreme contortion that it suddenly and disconcertingly exposes its underside — and that is a vivid scarlet , a spectacular warning that its skin contains a burning poison . |
| 24 | Macedonia , which in January took the first steps towards independence [ see p. 38704 ] , faced hostility from Greece which felt that its name implied a territorial claim on the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 25 | Each Authority has a duty to provide its respective radio and television services as public services for the dissemination of information , education and entertainment , and to ensure that its programmes maintain a high general standard , in particular as respects their quality and content , and a proper balance and wide range of subject matter … . |
| 26 | AN IMPOVERISHED African country ( the name changes according to where you hear the story ) decided that its agriculture needed a shot in the arm . |
| 27 | In fact , it is only a slight exaggeration to say that the main deterrent effect of monopoly policy has been not the threat of what changes might be required as a result of the MMC investigation , but the threat of having to tie up a large quantity of senior executives ' time to argue the firm 's case in the event that its activities attract a reference to the MMC . |
| 28 | I detest William S. Rubin , former head of Paintings and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art in New York , who spotted the deception too late , and then unintentionally justified the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ by stating that ‘ the Reina Sofia will find it hard to acquire a collection of twentieth-century masterpieces to match ‘ Guernica ’ ’ , and that its removal reflected a wish to ‘ attract crowds to a museum which would otherwise have only a handful of visitors ’ . |
| 29 | Studies of the way in which earthquake waves are transmitted through the Earth have shown that its interior has a concentric structure . |
| 30 | The worst result of the earthquake was that its consequences gave an excuse to the town-planners , not least the great urban visionary himself , to undertake grandiose schemes of urban renewal . |