Example sentences of "of [noun sg] that [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straining the last possible revolutions from her roaring Paxman engines , the old lady of the fleet , Vigilant was first to reach Guiding Lights , but despite darkness and mist had to wait no more than a few minutes for the other cutters to join her — a feat of seamanship that later lead to great praise from their Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 2 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 3 | The 1925 Widows ' , Orphans ' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act was thus the product of several impulses — desire by the advocates of 1924 ‘ new Conservatism ’ ( especially Neville Chamberlain ) to forge a specifically Conservative brand of social reform in the new post-1918 conditions of virtual mass democracy , the mothers ' pensions challenge by Labour , the ‘ all-in insurance ’ activity within Whitehall in 1923–4 ( represented by the Anderson and Watson Committees ) , and the first glimmerings of realization that better pensions might encourage retirement and reduce the unemployment statistics . |
| 4 | ‘ It is a harsh fact of life that lower division clubs have to sell to survive . |
| 5 | Slim people generally eat the same kinds of food that fatter people like to eat . |
| 6 | The fundamental design concept of a microcomputer is that it should provide real computing power to tackle the same kinds of task that larger computers handle but in a machine which is almost as easy to use as a calculator and typewriter . |