Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seamen are therefore determined that they will have nothing to do with Germans of any description until the Germans have made full reparation for the cruel murders committed and the lives lost on the high seas from submarine action " . |
| 2 | At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination . |
| 3 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 4 | Morrissey and the lads were apparently miffed that their last two singles were n't as successful as they had hoped . |
| 5 | Then he got peevish and decided on a rain storm and the dinosaurs were so overgrown that they would n't fit into the ark so the flood destroyed them all . |
| 6 | Sir James Graham of Netherby Hall rebuilt the trap and the Scots were so enraged that they gathered a small army of local people and set out to tear it down . |
| 7 | The potatoes were so filling that there was n't a great deal of room left for all the other foods they usually ate . |
| 8 | However , the companies were reportedly assured that UI 's 1993 programme would continue , along with its input on requirements , early access , licensing and conformance and its work in promoting and marketing Unix . |
| 9 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 10 | She was near the east bank of the River , five hundred paces south of the town , lying on a flat white rock where the crocodiles could not get her , though by the time she was discovered by a Medjay patrol at the sixth hour of day when the sun was at its highest , the vultures had eaten her eyes and part of her face , and the flies were so glutted that they could not leave the feast unless they were picked off . |
| 11 | As many of their domestic loans were backed by property , the banks were also betting that Japan 's land bubble would not burst . |
| 12 | The Maronites were later to claim that there had been provocation for the killings but the attack appeared to have been carefully planned . |
| 13 | The Americans are clearly hoping that it will be possible to bring the Palestinians and Israelis around the negotiating table without confronting the contradictions and achieve an historic breakthrough . |
| 14 | The Americans are clearly hoping that it will be possible to bring the Palestinians and Israelis around the negotiating table without confronting the contradictions and achieve an historic breakthrough . |
| 15 | The electrodes were so positioned that current flowing through them caused a particular pleasure . |
| 16 | Artificial languages have been constructed for which it is possible to ascribe unique , non-zero probabilities to generalizations , but the languages are so restricted that they contain no universal generalizations . |
| 17 | But the graduates are already finding that publicity stunts are n't that easy , picking grapes in a gown and mortar board does have it 's problems . |
| 18 | To assert that the knave of hearts was the person who stole the tarts is not to assert that one believes that it was he who stole them . |
| 19 | The problem for the fathers was how to express that God could be said to have uniquely identified God 's self with Jesus of Nazareth , without making Jesus into God . |
| 20 | ‘ Teaching at home is a bloody waste of time — the students are so alienated that they are just not interested . ’ |
| 21 | The Adventurers were also to ensure that all levels were driven with only a slight gradient … " just sufficient to drain out the water " . |
| 22 | Far below the Earth 's surface , the rocks are so compressed that the pores are closed . |
| 23 | There was no reversal of policy : Nkrumah had been right in assessing their relative positions on Africa , only now the Tories were out to show that they had shed pre-war Conservatism . |