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

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1 ‘ Is that right the filth came in looking for your Mickey and the electric went ?
2 I do not include in that 70 the number of occasions when the hon. Members for Brightside and for Dagenham have said contradictory things .
3 But of course , Couples has n't had that outstanding a career , so far .
4 I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed .
5 Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care .
6 Suppose we believe that the snow is what is muffling the sound of the traffic , or that flipping the switch made the windscreen wipers start to work , or that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm .
7 To make that possible the system resorts to three major devices already mentioned : preferential voting , the transferability of votes and election by quotas .
8 Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair .
9 Harpin , for example , follows the traditional primary curriculum model of writing , distinguishing only the creative and the factual , but admits that this a weakness in his work .
10 These were inconsistent with privilege , and also with the more central connotation of Zuwayi hurr : that such a man accepted no orders .
11 That such a man should be placed in the role of ruler over God 's chosen people was deemed a curse — an affliction visited by God upon His people , a punishment for transgression both past and present .
12 And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven .
13 He feels very strongly that such a case should in future be dealt with by assessors in an open court .
14 Although for a considerable time before the resumed hearing it was known that this House was to consider whether to permit Hansard to be used as an aid to construction , there was no suggestion from the Crown or anyone else that such a course might breach Parliamentary privilege until the Attorney-General raised the point at the start of the rehearing .
15 The discussion of concepts of accountability in Chapter 1 suggests , however , that such a separation may not be justified .
16 ‘ Why is that such a problem ? ’ asked the doctor .
17 That such a king should play bo-peep
18 The amount concerned — about £30,000 — is insignificant given that such a tie would bring in £1 million in gate receipts and television revenue .
19 It is owing to the fact that Christianity is a historical religion , having a necessary reference to a past period of human history , that such a discussion needs to proceed .
20 That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives .
21 However , few would argue that this has a determining influence on the size of the public sector or that such a diversity of actors can he described as a single ‘ elite ’ Rather , authors such as the US Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental relations and Rose and Peters in Britain tend to stress the plurality of causes of growth in public expenditure .
22 It was not merely that such a proposition cut across yet another area of previous consensus .
23 He retained , however , sufficient contact with reality to know , and privately to say , that such a development was incompatible with the British parliamentary system .
24 It is certainly not the case that this can be discerned in the work of all the nouveaux romanciers at the same time ; however , that such a development did indeed take place suggests that a new poetics was being tacitly formulated .
25 It was pointed out , in Chapter 1 , that such a defence will have conservative implications since it puts the moral patients at the mercy of those interests , whatever they might be , that prevail amongst moral agents in a society .
26 It is in that sense , and that sense only , that such a promise gives rise to an estoppel .
27 Mr. Gilberd instructed the defendant to confirm with the bank that the cheque was acceptable , and the defendant later told him that he had done so and that such a cheque was ‘ as good as cash . ’
28 Bourdieu argues , however , that such a state of affairs would tend , not to impede , but to promote ‘ scientific progress ’ .
29 Walesa argued , however , that such a system would politicize the union , and that it would undermine the rights of the thousands of non-government supporters who currently belonged to Solidarity .
30 Every reasonable effort is made to provide it but if they merely demand ‘ everything you 've got ’ on a particular accident they are told firmly but politely that such a request is not acceptable .
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