Example sentences of "that [art] [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is due to the hard work of the community policeman , Kenny McLennan , and the constant encouragement of Councillor H.D.G. Fraser , it is hoped that the final few streets not yet covered by the Scheme will be included by the end of the year . |
| 2 | This is due to the hard work of the community policeman , Kenny McLennan , and the constant encouragement of Councillor H.D.G. Fraser , it is hoped that the final few streets not yet covered by the Scheme will be included by the end of the year . |
| 3 | It seems likely that the two latter offences were conceived to protect the interests of wealthy fathers by seeking to ensure that their daughters did not contract unsuitable marriages or forfeit their virginity and become less eligible . |
| 4 | But a report to the Security Council by the UN Secretary-General , Javier Perez de Cuellar , makes clear that the many former members of the defence forces , as well as counter-insurgency units — the notorious Koevoet in particular - though officially demobilised , are still on South Africa 's payroll . |
| 5 | That means that the first half hour rate does not , or should not , apply . |
| 6 | Members might like to note that the first half hour is usually a chance to chat ; we try to get the talks under way by eight o'clock . |
| 7 | Sunday 's 4-0 derby thrashing of Bristol City raised the signal that the 65-year-old former hell-raiser is truly back in business . |
| 8 | Revelations last year that the much-respected former Bishop of Galway had a 17-year-old son , Peter Murphy , in the United States following an affair in the 1970s were greeted with shock and disbelief . |
| 9 | One might suppose that the greater that number , the greater also the number of votes a party ought to receive . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , shit , ’ I then said , because that was how I felt and because I suddenly knew that the next few minutes were going to be extraordinarily difficult . |
| 11 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |
| 12 | Liz says that the next few weeks will be very testing and difficult … |
| 13 | The signs are that the next few years will see some extensive soul-searching about art history ; several books have already appeared . |
| 14 | Nonlinear optics is perhaps unique among systems showing chaos in that a fully quantum mechanical description of the phenomena is conceivable : there is the interesting and exciting prospect that the next few years may reveal what , if anything , is meant by " quantum turbulence " , and all-optical systems such as those described or proposed above are likely to be in the forefront of experimental tests of such concepts . |
| 15 | As a result of the House of Lords ' decision in Russell v Northern Bank [ 1992 ] 1 WLR 588 , it is likely that the next few years will see the return in popularity of " golden shares " . |
| 16 | Order effects strategy involved the effect of the position of each adjective in the list to the impression formed ; ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ , ‘ when the list ended with several good qualities this tended to affect any answer since they remained more prominent in my mind ’ , and ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |
| 17 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 18 | As a final refinement , you will probably find that the last few frames of each shot on the copy assembly are over-recorded at the edits . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope I do n't need to tell you the level of shock that the last few days have brought to this entire country . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It is true that the last few days have been hard , ’ he confessed quietly , sliding his arm along Caroline 's taut shoulders , ‘ but tonight I will look after her . |
| 21 | The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock . |
| 22 | The bright day was ruined , and the peace that the last few weeks had given her shattered . |
| 23 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 24 | Writing in The Executive Grapevine , he sees natural competition between search firms as enough to foster and maintain their quality , and considers that the last few years have witnessed a weeding-out of the less professional outfits resulting in fewer and better consultants . |
| 25 | It may not be too extreme to suggest that the last few years have seen a quiet revolution in the direction taken by our thinking about writing development and the teaching of writing in schools . |
| 26 | Corn was shipped along the Stroudwater canal to Oil Mill , although it may well be that the last half mile or so of the Painswick Stream was once navigable . |
| 27 | Further , there is such a large overlap between girls ' and boys ' test or examination results that it is true to say that a great many girls do better at mathematics than the majority of boys . |
| 28 | Even the Dutch , who colonized the nation longer than any other Western power , were more interested in trading posts than in exploration , and vested their authority in the local chieftains who in turn vested theirs on down the line so that a great many Indonesians have still never seen a European . |
| 29 | This sample of correspondence shows that a great many plants were introduced into England by John Bartram . |
| 30 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |