Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [verb] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solid as a bull whale in his confidence and peering through eyes that suggest he is not lacking in a little magic himself , Hugh Smith calmly rebuts every argument that London is in decline . |
| 2 | Apart from this tenacious defence of local liberties the Caroline bureaucrats , in common with other administrative technicians of the ancien régime in Europe , found that the main obstacle to modernization lay in the inertia of the average Spanish office-holder and the sheer size of the administrative apparatus — the superfluity of posts that nourished what was later to be termed empleadismo . |
| 3 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 4 | The infusion of desire that rushed her was so immense that she obeyed instantly , drawing her legs up to his hips . |
| 5 | The introduction There are hundred of stars that shine there are hundred of fish in the sea , there are hundreds of people the whole world over , there 's only one mother for me , only one mother for me , I love her and she loves me , there are and shells on the shore , there are and shells on the beach there are the whole world over but there 's only one mother for me . |
| 6 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 7 | I did a degree in Economics , and erm the first kind of history that interested me was really rather meticulous and careful and detailed economic history . |
| 8 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 9 | The house of Baskerville , the eminent Birmingham printer , was sold in 1788 and the seven acres of land that surrounded it were advertised as ‘ a very desirable spot to build upon ’ . |
| 10 | He has written a scientific paper in the journal of the Royal Society of Medicine that says you are likely to have significant long-term reductions in minor health problems if you acquire a dog . |
| 11 | The main communications network should not carry or traffic engineering data indiscriminately ; this type of data should only be provided against requests that have themselves been authorized . |
| 12 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 13 | For example , The Independent , a British daily newspaper , recently ran an advertising campaign with posters that read It is , are you ? |
| 14 | Bearing in mind that soil itself is a chemical or a mixture of chemicals the basics of cleaning in this context are identical to those of basic reaction chemistry typified by the following equation : |
| 15 | It follows a ruling in the High Court that the government 's guidance to officers that operate it is too strict , limiting awards of grants and loans to poor people . |
| 16 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |