Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 2 | This is a new idea that receives just this one reference in the paper . |
| 3 | He is saying this — outlining the aim — to his analyst in the course of the therapeutic sessions whose speech forms part of the oral record that constitutes almost all of the book . |
| 4 | Just what is it about Barbados that produces so many wonderful cricketers ? |
| 5 | To all who thought as Joyce did , the Munich crisis of 1938 had posed a problem of conscience that admitted only one solution . |
| 6 | Some might regard that influence as excessive . |
| 7 | Monsieur de Levantiére smiled benignly , thrilled at the unique combination of willingness , reliability and intelligence that became increasingly apparent in his protege . |
| 8 | One group , the art college or trendy mods , developed a style of dress that became increasingly resplendent , while the other group , the hard mods , or the gang mods , developed into the skinheads . |
| 9 | However , post-war industrialisation and the alarming rate of scientific and technological progress ( particularly the discovery and use of atomic weapons ) created a shift in public opinion that became increasingly evident during the 1950s and 60s , and culminated in the formation of various national and international groups dedicated to campaigning on behalf of the environment . |
| 10 | Edward III 's orchestration of support for the war was skilful and successful , yet fundamentally he depended on the co-operation of the nobility , who recruited and led the contract armies that became increasingly important as the war continued . |
| 11 | As we crossed ground that became increasingly boggy , the vegetation increasingly salt-spattered and sparse , Tony began to enthuse on the likelihood of our seeing geese and red-necked phalaropes . |
| 12 | Out-migration , however , had become more interregional , a trend that became even stronger during the interwar depression years . |
| 13 | Caterling was a lethal swordsman in the time of Richard III , a protector of the Royal Forests who was renowned for his evil grin , a grin that became even broader when he was despatching a poacher with his trusty sword . |
| 14 | There was nothing dramatic to mark its going — just a stream of air bubbles that became gradually smaller and ceased altogether after about twenty seconds . |
| 15 | Clarke thereby played a major part in the thrust towards international standardization that became so important in late nineteenth-century European science . |
| 16 | Behind them she could work with a charm and singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes . |
| 17 | Behind them she could work with a charm and a singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes ’ . |
| 18 | However , what such an analysis fails to take into account is that the evidence of wrong-doing that became so public in the United States would almost certainly have never surfaced in the United Kingdom , given the laws of libel and the willingness of the British people to tolerate secrecy in government . |
| 19 | When the Irish victory became clear the audience of several thousand inside the showjumping arena broke into a chorus of ‘ Ole Ole ’ , the anthem that became so popular during Ireland 's progress throughout the 1990 soccer World Cup finals in Italy . |
| 20 | Another patient with a low fistula has had her pouch excised and has been successfully converted to a Kock ileostomy because of severe ileoanal stenosis requiring pouch intubation that became socially unacceptable . |
| 21 | He began to cough in rasping barks that became horribly convulsive before eventually subsiding . |
| 22 | So he was interested ; it was just an interest that became less important to him . |
| 23 | But their styles were really very dissimilar and that became very plain from the moment really that Mr Callaghan took over . |
| 24 | It was a three fingered hand that became more solid and substantial second by second . |
| 25 | However , anxious dreams produce smaller erections than those that bring more pleasurable fantasies . |
| 26 | The utmost importance was attached to the rituals and paraphernalia of government and not least to the artefacts that made visually explicit the status of the leading actors . |
| 27 | Er , but I do believe that made very important the reason , er , the first question is and people were n't reading about that . |
| 28 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 29 | Mischief or discontent , a hard master or some family tragedy that made home hateful to them had shuffled together these jacks and knaves . |
| 30 | It was the economic fragility of peasant proprietorship in areas of monoculture and drought , where two bad years drove the small man to sell his lands , that led more far-sighted reformers to argue against outright peasant proprietorship and in favour of a state-controlled and state-aided colonization with the family as the settled unit . |