Sentence examples for a proper that from inspiring English sources

He's an Englishman of unspecified age, and a writer, although whether nascent or failed we aren't told; we can glean, from his diction, a proper (that is to say, British-public-school) education, which at that time signalled at the least a middle-class background.

Like many others in the catalog (Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov and J. P. Donleavy are among those who were published by Girodias), "Louise Walbrook" was a perfectly "proper," that is to say serious, author.

McTaggart first argues that every substance is gunky, that is, every substance is such that it has a proper part that is also a substance.

If we behave in a way that is proper, that's how the industry survives.

"I'd prefer a proper review that let us draw evidence on that," she said.

In such circumstances, Nigel Farage would probably be back with a vengeance, demanding that we have a proper Brexit that restores our freedom – and he might be unstoppable.

"I am well aware that this is a proper crisis that needs to be met with a proper political response," he said.

That gives us enough time for a proper inquiry that will examine what has gone on here".

This is a perfect pub: a proper pub that serves proper beer and proper food; not a gastropub, or a pub that has problems with its identity.

And that he spent nearly 45 years in Washington, a proper noun that's a dirty word in presidential politics?

A proper tackle that.