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

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1 It is precisely because of them that any progress at all has been accomplished in matters of racial discourse .
2 The sixteen and a half foot long great white shark matched the description of one that killed diver John Ford on Wednesday off the resort town of Byron
3 This was particularly appropriate because the ‘ Flickers ’ did just that ; they moved , ran , fell off bridges , drove trains through parlours , rode wild horses , attacked poor wee Indians , flew aeroplanes , and rammed just about every aspect of everything that normal people never did , on to a square screen in the local box of delights known as ‘ The Picters ’ , ‘ The Flicks ’ , or if you came from Clarkston , High Burnside , Shawlands or Jordanhill , ‘ The Cineemaaa ’ …
4 Also about this time Leopold compiled a list entitled ‘ Verzeichniss alles desjenigen was dieser 12jährige Knab seit seinem 7tem Jahre componiert , und in originali kann aufgezeiget werden ’ — [ List of everything that this 12-year old boy has composed since his 7th year , and can be exhibited in the originals ] ( 11 ) , and this may be a draft or copy of a document which accompanied the petition to Emperor Joseph II .
5 Typically , his history takes the form of establishing a concept of something that chronological history would assume had no history , for example , madness , or sexuality .
6 You must prod him with coloured pencils , or tell him he must be joking when he makes heavy weather of something that another author does neatly .
7 Loopy Lil grinned and Dot saw she did n't understand much of anything that other people said .
8 But just now it works for all of us that these Pessarane Behesht have taken it into their heads to seize the woman and child . ’
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