Example sentences of "an [noun sg] that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we cancel this event because of a shadowy terrorist threat it will be an admission that these people can control our lives . |
| 2 | Although in the case of learning disabilities he accepted that he was dealing with congenital conditions incapable of radical improvement , his regimen called not only for humane treatment but also for an appreciation that disabled people deserved special understanding because of their superior spiritual status . |
| 3 | This group of people was recognised by the meeting in Tokyo over a year ago , and this is an issue that many people — both my friends and strangers that I come across in collecting or canvassing for Amnesty — ask me about . |
| 4 | The United States further eased its trade embargo against Vietnam on April 29 with an announcement that commercial sales of food , medicine and agricultural supplies to meet basic human needs would be allowed . |
| 5 | We have been trying to din into the heads of the electricity boards an inkling that different people are susceptible to different levels of radiation exposure and that there is no safe level . |
| 6 | There is often an implication that skilled means highly skilled although this connotation confuses the concept of existence and level . |
| 7 | Well I meant to say , if , if , if we , if there is an assurance that elderly people are going to be helped , and there 's going to be a day centre there , I think we do handle the elderly pretty much anyway in this county , I would be certainly prepared to support it . |
| 8 | It might also appear from such an analysis that working-class people are converging towards RP back [ a ] in grass , path , and middle-class people diverging from it , when in fact there is no evidence that the usage of these speakers is influenced by RP in any way at all . |
| 9 | During the conference Dino said through an interpreter that many people back home are worse , are still there and are not being treated as they should be , fuelling the controversy over whether the UN airlifted the most deserving cases . |
| 10 | During the conference Dino said through an interpreter that many people back home are worse , are still there and are not being treated as they should be , fuelling the controversy over whether the UN airlifted the most deserving cases . |
| 11 | However , it embraces a whole spectrum — from a deeply responsible press that is extremely careful in what it publishes and which tries to balance one thing with another , to an element that many people regard , perhaps rightly , as frequently scurrilous or simply aimed at making a profit . |
| 12 | The amazing improvements in symptoms which can be brought about by medication have created an expectation that most people treated in hospitals will be recovered from their acute episode of disorder and ready for discharge within a few weeks . |
| 13 | Some names , such as ‘ Hoover ’ are identified with a particular product to such an extent that many people refer to their vacuum cleaner as ‘ the Hoover ’ . |
| 14 | Although Eliot was privately a most generous man — to an extent that many people , especially the young , may not always have been aware — he exercised a public prudence that sometimes faintly amused his associates . |