Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jencks concludes that to search for a comprehensive policy to tackle the underclass is a waste of time ; different policies are needed for different problems that may be only loosely related . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the system of brick flues that runs under the entire floor of the caldarium — the hot room of the baths — to circulate the hot air from the furnace . |
| 3 | They pinched his toes and rubbed the back of his heels and made a rat-tat sound on the stone flags that echoed through the spooky quiet to announce his presence . |
| 4 | It appends that promise to a clear and comprehensive code of conduct ( one that builds helpfully on the recently published Fleet Street set of principles ) . |
| 5 | It appends that promise to a clear and comprehensive code of conduct ( one that builds helpfully on the recently published Fleet Street set of principles ) . |
| 6 | The needles splinter the wind into dirges and laments that tell of the long and tragic history of the trees . |
| 7 | development which only just exceeds that permitted by the General Development Order , Class I ( development within the curtilage of a dwelling-house ) , Class VI ( agricultural ) and Class VIII ( industrial ) developments ; |
| 8 | The fabrication of an African persona is reflexive ; an extraordinary meditation on the self ; a powerful exploration of the fears and desires that reside in the writerly conscious . |
| 9 | Section 92(1) states that to amount to a statutory nuisance the odour must be EITHER prejudicial to health OR a nuisance . |
| 10 | Pristina is surrounded by artillery ranges that belonged to the old Yugoslav army . |
| 11 | It is often the way he extends his hand to take hers and the way she responds that lead to the successful conclusion of a balance , lift or pirouette . |
| 12 | He remembers that work on the new school building had to be completed by the end of August since the hop kilns were needed in September . |
| 13 | Structural models of hemisphere specialisation which posit that perceptual asymmetries arise because the brain structures that deal with a particular class of stimuli are lateralised exclusively or predominantly to one hemisphere rather than the other can not cope with this variability . |
| 14 | He looked about the room , conscious suddenly of the lowness of the ceiling , of the dark oak beams that divided up the whitewashed walls , the fresh cut roses in a silver bowl on the table in the corner . |
| 15 | RIGHT A view of Tel Megiddo in Israel looming above the landscape shows the size of tells that formed in the Near East through continuous habitation of the site . |
| 16 | The albatross descended in wide , slow sweeps that ended in an undignified flurry of feathers and a thump as it landed heavily on its platform in the Patrician 's bird garden . |
| 17 | Simple L-R filters that correspond to the simple C-R filters of figure 8.3 are shown loaded with resistance R L in figure 8.5 . |
| 18 | Research on the Plynlimon catchment in upland Wales , for example , indicates that streamflow from the afforested area is c. 15 per cent less than from nearby grassland ( Blackie and Newson 1986 ) . |
| 19 | Welch implies that to account for the apparent increases in zooplankton biomass over the past 30 years in the North Pacific without a marked concomitant increase in phytoplankton biomass ( as reflected by chlorophyll ) , phytoplankton productivity must have increased . |
| 20 | Zweig explains that faced with the vast quantities of surviving documents in conventional archives few historians can be comprehensive , but with an electronic archive and a toolchest filled with versatile software historians could work with digital information more exhaustively ( 1993 : 256 ) . |
| 21 | But these bright spots were dimmed by the assassination of the Western-orientated Hashemite royal family in Baghdad on 14th July 1958 during the Nasser-inspired coup , which ended Britain 's treaty relations with Iraq and led to the RAF 's withdrawal from the Habbaniyah and Shu'aiba air bases that lay on the air-reinforcement route to the Far East . |
| 22 | Section 2 of the 1920 Act provides that communicating with a foreign agent is evidence of obtaining or attempting to obtain information calculated or intended to be useful to an enemy contrary to section 1 of the Act . |
| 23 | Many , therefore , blamed Callaghan for the explosion in union wage claims that followed in the early seventies . |
| 24 | Claims that verge on the outrageous are made for this material — but very many fishkeepers will vouch for its effectiveness . |
| 25 | ‘ So long as you do n't gossip with him , no , ’ he said flatly , and turned on his heel to stride coolly out on to the terrace again , so tall he had to dodge the metal chimes that hung over the french windows . |