Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] that [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 2 | Could she give us just a handful of examples of people who were moved from geriatric beds into the private sector in the early stages of the development of the policy and were given the assurance that she says was publicly given that the Government had no intention of meeting fees , however high ? |
| 3 | The most significant one is , how anyone in society today can be independent of the executive , given the power that it wields . |
| 4 | Keeping in touch with a wide range of people interested in primary education has many benefits including helping to ensure that your school receives the publicity that it deserves . |
| 5 | It is our policy that no one should be discharged from long-stay hospitals without the existence of a care programme that defines that person 's needs — and , furthermore , naming an individual key worker who will be responsible for ensuring that the person receives the care that he requires . |
| 6 | To be sure , God 's Spirit is at work in the East and everywhere , but that is different from saying that he contributes to beliefs which deny the truth that he has inspired . |
| 7 | ‘ We precipitated the 13 October thing ’ , stated the occupiers , ‘ because we dispute the fact that It belongs to , or is owned by , anyone , or any small group of people . ’ |
| 8 | While Deng is doing his best to assure the world that nothing has changed , that China will push ahead with its reforms and will hold its door open for foreign business and investment , the post-Tiananmen purging of liberal intellectual elements and the new emphasis on ‘ political education ’ have enormously strengthened the position of the Communist Party 's hardline Marxists , led by Yang Shangkun , the president , and Li Peng , the prime minister . |
| 9 | The more important reason for his elevation is that Mr Major thinks he must reassure the right that he has not gone soft . |
| 10 | I would make the point that it has taken thirty five years for us to reach this point where we have comprehensive strategy for York , we have battled with er various greenbelt boundaries in the past , I think there has never been erm a total review development plan requirements for the Greater York area , no more of its implications on possible greenbelt boundaries , we now have that and the greenbelt local plan , Southern Ryedale local plans are being progressed on the basis of that strategy , and there are other plans in the pipeline . |
| 11 | If you can hold your feelings and examine them , force yourself to hear the voice and ask why it produces the response that it does , you are beginning to get the better of it , to break the fearful silence that surrounds it and , incidentally , to add another voice to your writing repertoire . |
| 12 | The Change Coordinator will inform the person who requested the change that it has been implemented . |
| 13 | The thieves also went through my clothes and , although it sounds stupid , I hate the feeling that someone knows what underwear I 've got on . |
| 14 | These substantial resources will enable the executive to continue the progress that it has made in recent years in improving housing conditions in Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | Its supporters make the point that it breaks down rigid hierarchies and allows for greater participation in the decision-making process . |
| 16 | Germany 's failure to achieve political greatness further encourages the view that she has a great future before her . |
| 17 | The normal method of the original owner to ‘ avoid ’ the contract is for him to inform the rogue that he does so . |
| 18 | Pity the way that he has been touched by faith within our local community . |
| 19 | Their task is to so translate the text that it speaks with the original intention and force as it did to those originally addressed . |
| 20 | It will be observed that this definition , though it lays considerable and perhaps disproportionate stress on the contractual nature of the shareholder 's rights , also emphasises the fact that he has an interest in the company . |
| 21 | notify the person who originally reported the problem that it has been resolved . |
| 22 | Although the beef market is now in a better position , does not the hon. Gentleman realise the damage that he has done to beef consumption and to our farmers in the past year by constantly highlighting that issue on radio and television ? |
| 23 | Emphasis on the importance of understanding the factors affecting breeding success in males and females has the advantage that it forces us to ask specific comparative questions concerning the functional significance of particular sex differences . |
| 24 | This has the advantage that it does not require the pilot to remember any special movement of the controls other than the movement forward to unstall . |
| 25 | For this the police have settled on a compound called Tenax G C ( poly p 2.6. diphenyl phenylene oxide ) which has the advantage that it does not mix with water . |
| 26 | It therefore does n't offer any ventilation bonus like an open fire does , but it has the advantage that it does n't suffer from back-draughts , which can blow smoke and fumes back into the room from open flues . |
| 27 | It has the advantage that it does not cause corrosion to galvanised cisterns , but is now more expensive than copper and harder to bend and to join . |
| 28 | While Kittay 's theory has the advantage that it allows metaphor to be seen as operating according to the same basic principles regardless of the size of the discursive unit in question , Brooke-Rose 's own examination of the mechanisms of the verb metaphor suggest a view that minimizes dependence on an implicit ‘ proper ’ term outside the text and emphasizes the metaphoric interactions between the terms themselves . |
| 29 | A loan stock convertible into ordinary shares has the advantage that it enables the holder to retain the security of being a creditor if it wishes , while offering a share in capital growth on conversion . |
| 30 | Whilst this system has the advantage that it has no moving parts it is very much more expensive . |