Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 2 | Jakarta 's Governor Wiyogo Atmordarminto insists that to drive a becak is a degrading occupation , considering Indonesia 's level of development . |
| 3 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 4 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 5 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 6 | De Candolle realized that to explain the existence of these provinces would require naturalists to tackle the question of the actual origin of species , although at this point he thought the matter was beyond the scope of scientific investigation . |
| 7 | In the 1830s , the British geologist Charles Lyell argued that to establish geology as a rigorous science , it had to be assumed that the forces that had sculpted the earth 's surface in the past were identical , both in kind and intensity , to those acting now . |
| 8 | Belatedly , Manville realized that going in cold , straight to the top , had been a serious tactical error . |
| 9 | Mr Arafat hates that plan , because it did not offer an independent Palestine . |
| 10 | OSF admitted that calls from big industry players such as Novell Inc , who 've shied away from committing to DCE until now , persuaded the organisation to reconsider its pricing policy ( UX No 424 ) . |
| 11 | Jiminez de Arechaga concludes that recognising a third party 's assent through its actions shows that the third party is taking advantage of a pre-existing right , and is not concluding a collateral agreement . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you remember , ’ a typical conversation might begin , ‘ that time back in December of '59 when Waimea was unrideable and Greg Noll caught that wave that must have been thirty-foot plus ? ’ |
| 13 | Glenn Hoddle says that playing at Wembley can be like making your debut … the sight of the twin towers still gives you a buzz but they 've got to forget all about that and get on and win the game … it 's a wonderful place to play he says and the pitch should suit Swindon but they 've got to concentrate on the job in hand |
| 14 | A DEFLECTED shot from Scott Nisbet that spun off an opponent and then bounced over the head of a bemused Brugge goalkeeper last night kept alive Rangers ' hopes of a place in the European Cup final . |
| 15 | Rafiq says that storing hashish inside the skin of a freshly-slaughtered sheep is the only way to keep it from going stale . |
| 16 | Tenant farmer Richard Whiteman says that banning hunting could have repercussions . |
| 17 | At that moment the door to the next room , which had been left a little ajar , opened and a slim , petite woman came in , elegantly dressed in a blue crêpe de Chine suit that echoed the colour of her eyes . |
| 18 | Eddie Polland was the winner of the card and pencil contest with a four rounds total of 290 but a year later Barry Brennan bettered that score by nine shots . |
| 19 | WHILE the Ipswich fans taunted ‘ You 're going down with the Arsenal ’ , Town star John Wark predicted that troubled Manchester United could still walk off with the first Premier League Championship . |
| 20 | Ertl showed that evoked potentials on the EEG showed shorter latency and greater amplitude for high IQ subjects than for low IQ subjects , In recent years this approach has been broadened and improved by the Hendricksons , and we now have physiological measures on the EEG evoked potential which correlate as highly with typical IQ tests as one of these IQ tests correlates with another ! |
| 21 | Wright replies that built into her schedule will be visits to a favourite retreat house in Edinburgh — ‘ to recharge my batteries ’ . |
| 22 | Smithers calculates that to finance a corporate-sector deficit of ¥40 trillion at the current high corporate-borrowing rate of 5% ( almost 4% after inflation ) would cost ¥2 trillion a year . |
| 23 | Mr Shamir has one : the Camp David accords that brought peace between Israel and Egypt in 1979 . |
| 24 | Tilda loved that smell , and stretched her nostrils wide . |
| 25 | A Country Diary : EGGLESTON BURN , Teesdale : Small burns that feed the main rivers of the Pennine Dales create some of the wildest features of the landscape . |
| 26 | ( Ms Obholzer blocked that exit by telling him that domestic gas in Vienna was now non-lethal . ) |
| 27 | I do n't think the David Gedge that sat at home with his girlfriend exists any more . |
| 28 | According to director of corporate communications Keith Luckton , GRE felt that issuing an interim report clearly labelled unaudited did not fully inform shareholders of the work done by the auditors during the year . |
| 29 | Hence Durkheim insisted that to understand one set of social phenomena we must see them in the round — in their wider , social context . |
| 30 | Small wonder that display technology is generating such interest worldwide and why electronics companies do not want to be excluded from this technology . |