Example sentences of "[noun pl] that have [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next , in the order in which she would need them , were her flannel petticoats , her cotton bodice and frilled drawers , her black woollen stockings , her long boned stays and the combinations that had so irritated her skin when she was small . |
| 2 | That is why , no matter what the last-minute mediators may say , there is a danger that their aim will be interpreted not as an effort to secure Mr Hussein 's compliance with demands that have somehow escaped his attention , but as an attempt to offer him an easy way out . |
| 3 | The two are betting that with WinPad , they can exploit their dominant positions in the personal computer market to defeat the majors that have already tipped their hands , including AT&T Co and Apple Computer Inc . |
| 4 | He laid a hand on her shoulder , and she felt already in his touch the conscious , prudent reserve of the religious ; remembering the sensitive fingers that had once tuned her body like a fine instrument , her soul howled with the sense of loss . |
| 5 | Furthermore , quite irrationally , some retired husbands begin to harbour dire suspicions about their wives ' working colleagues , imagining romantic entanglements that had never crossed their minds before . |
| 6 | Among the champagne houses that have already increased their prices to the wine trade are Moet et Chandon ( 9.6 per cent ) , Laurent Perrier ( 4.9 per cent ) , Bollinger ( about 3 per cent ) and Lanson ( about 4 per cent ) . |
| 7 | Accordingly , a stimulus will be relatively ineffective both when it has itself recently occurred and also when it is presented along with cues that have previously signalled its occurrence . |
| 8 | And the figure includes only those companies that have publicly admitted their readiness to sell . |
| 9 | anti-hunt people , the League of Cruel Sports and all sorts of other organisations that have actually asked their members not to be here today , not to cause a problem , not to divert attention from the real issues in the debate er er and cause a crisis outside for all the press and the media to latch on to , that 's not what they were about . |
| 10 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 11 | After much investigation , he discovered that it was n't a British resident at all , but a Russian bird that must somehow have been blown off course from its migratory route during the hurricane-force storms of the previous year — the storms that had immediately preceded its arrival in our village car park . |
| 12 | Having initially taken the position ‘ that all inhabitants that have not lost their birthright should have an equal voice in elections ’ , he then spoke about the origins of government and in favour of property as the basis of representation , while denying strongly that the franchise should be restricted to forty-shilling freeholders , calling for its extension to leaseholders . |
| 13 | Top ales that have n't lost their bottle … |
| 14 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 15 | Cheered a little , Nicandra picked an invisible hairpin from a rosy plate , part of the muddle on top of the white-painted chest of drawers that had once held her baby-clothes . |