Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 2 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 3 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 4 | One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) . |
| 5 | She arrived in central London so late that she had to park in the street outside the English department , with not a free parking meter in sight . |
| 6 | ‘ The fact that she has to live in the public eye , I mean , I would slit my wrists already . |
| 7 | It was better to make it clear right from the start that she preferred to work in the other surgery alone , rather than work together in both village and complex . |
| 8 | A curve is a good shape to choose if there are plenty of items that you wish to include in the picture , as it can accommodate quite a lot of material . |
| 9 | How terrible to adore like this so that you want to lie in the same grave and share nothing with the world but live above it like Zeus and Hera . |
| 10 | Now , the seminar session that I 'm going to run , we can eith we 'll have Jeannie set up but we can sort of kick off with a discussion about topics that you want to cover in the revision |
| 11 | Father , we thank you that you continue to work in the lives of our fellow believers , restoring health and strength to the sick , comforting those who are sad , supporting those who are lonely . |
| 12 | The job 's been won , there is no need to hang around , you 've proved the point — that was all that you wanted to do in the beginning , was n't it ? |
| 13 | The very day that we began to meet in the community centre where we are based , three mothers with their children began to attend . |
| 14 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 15 | But at the last minute , self-interest takes over ; in the stark presence of the perforated piece of paper and a stub of pencil on a string , we realise that we have to live in the ‘ real world ’ , and our courage fails us . |
| 16 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 17 | We need to be here now , and we need to ensure that we continue to create in the future . |
| 18 | Meeting in Budapest on March 6 the defence ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland sought to co-ordinate policy towards NATO 's North Atlantic Co-operation Council ; they committed themselves to an " open barracks " policy along similar lines to the existing " open skies " policy but stressed that they wished to act in the spirit of dialogue and consultation rather than to set up a closed grouping . |
| 19 | Crucially , Realism provided a justification for the kind of foreign policy which the leaders of the USA felt that they had to undertake in the period immediately after the Second World War . |
| 20 | Ingush members of the Provisional Council had resigned , making it clear that they wanted to remain in the Russian Federation . |
| 21 | By retaining the link between finance and accounting , local politicians are forced to bear some of the cost of their programmes in the annual taxes that they have to levy in the short run . |
| 22 | If we group together all the industries that were predominantly in public ownership on the departure of the Labour government , we find that their total employment was thrown into decline in the North from 1978 to 1981 , but that it continued to grow in the South . |
| 23 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 24 | The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets . |
| 25 | It was raining outside , a thin veil of rain that was blown by the wind so that it appeared to undulate in the air like gossamer curtains . |
| 26 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |
| 27 | It is known that he wished to stay in the Government and would have liked to have pressed on with the reform of prisons . |
| 28 | His parents fully understood his difficulties and raised no objections when he said that he wanted to live in the poorest part of South-East London for a year , to study conditions and work in a lay capacity amongst the people . |
| 29 | Until the hon. Gentleman turned to the future of the HMI , he was hard pressed to find anything that he wanted to oppose in the parents charter . |