Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The ‘ progressive ’ parent who believes in total involvement in shaping the disposition of children may end up in a stifling relationship that offers precious little access to the outside world . |
| 32 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |
| 33 | Wang Sau-leyan was still in full view of Fischer 's secreted camera , his well-fleshed face split by a grin that revealed unexpectedly fine teeth . |
| 34 | She gave Roman Dana 's message in a monotone that revealed far more than she knew . |
| 35 | Thing is I bet you the spikes that goes exactly next door to him I 'll paint yellow . |
| 36 | That underrated favourite of Martin Scorsese , Harvey Keitel , appears in Reservoir Dogs , a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong because someone has grassed on the top thieves . |
| 37 | Certainly there are similarities : he is one of a group of city businessmen confronting their mid-life crisis by plunging into a macho holiday endeavour that goes badly wrong . |
| 38 | The refusal this week by Virginia Bottomley , the new Health Secretary , to outlaw ‘ gagging clauses ’ in health workers ' contracts raises alarm about the climate of fear in British society that goes far wider than the NHS . |
| 39 | But since it was established in 1775 to serve as a printer to Edinburgh 's legal , banking and ecclesiastical communities P&W has developed a strong position in financial printing , providing it with a coverage that goes much wider than ‘ Sketch and describe an electronic circuit . ’ |
| 40 | It is a duty that goes very wide . |
| 41 | Now I would guess that goes further that most school curricular . |
| 42 | There 's a run that goes almost straight . |
| 43 | It was this particular characteristic of syphilis , that both the primary sore and the secondary rash will go away after a certain period , that produced so many varied cures in the pre-antibiotic era . |
| 44 | It was a marcher territory that produced extremely loyal Germans and abused and confused Poles . |
| 45 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 46 | The bricks from which the Midlands and south-east of England are built come from clay pits that make splendidly impermeable rubbish dumps . |
| 47 | The metaphoric networks that bind together thematic sequences are organized by two underlying figures : enclosure and penetration . |
| 48 | It 's hunger that drives so many ballet students there , not an innate artistic urge . |
| 49 | It was part of Thorfinn 's philosophy : the Viking philosophy that lived afresh each coming day . |
| 50 | It is our duty to lighten that load as much as possible . ’ |
| 51 | In the case of dieting , do not force yourself to diet in a way that involves too much hunger or deprivation . |
| 52 | The merchant unwittingly parodies Christ 's resurrection in his withdrawal to his counting-house to review his affairs : He descends only to join the rest of the household in a superficial scanting of Christian ritual between the call of the business world and the lure of socializing : Note the distraction and reluctance implied by the " " But … " " at the beginning of line 251 in comparison with the consecutive " " And … " 's that introduce more pleasing activities . |
| 53 | Fluke 's ‘ Joni ’ , a furious homage to Joni Mitchell 's ‘ Big Yellow Taxi ’ , was one of the dance singles that got away last summer . |
| 54 | ‘ The teams that stay up will be those that lose as few goals as possible . |
| 55 | They look super in the portfolio : far better than all those grotty 10 cm doubles that sold so many army surplus sleeping bags . |
| 56 | Equally to the point , the spectre of drastic economies that haunts so many men and women is often the result of their having only the haziest idea as to their likely income and expenditure . |
| 57 | This is a type of book that crept almost unremarked into the field . |
| 58 | In fact , even the Japanese language version of these is worth a look , if only for the few English words that remain obstinately untranslatable and stick out glaringly among the elegant Japanese characters . |
| 59 | Neither the novel nor the house , however , treat Gothic as more than a superficial application to values that remain essentially Palladian . |
| 60 | Luscious fruits and vegetables , sausages and cheeses of every description , breads that smelled as wonderful as they looked , lay heaped in profusion on market stalls shaded by cream-coloured umbrellas . |