Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The realisation that this illness could apply to anyone broke down the illusion that it only affects those who have dropped out of society . |
| 2 | He flew in three days ago and has become so accustomed to the highlife that he now refuses to leave . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 4 | Since the dividing line is somewhat hazy , check with your architect or other professional adviser that he/she fully understands the technical requirements . |
| 5 | Ethnomethodology is an organizational study of a member 's own knowledge of his ordinary affairs , of his own organized enterprises , where this knowledge is treated … as part of the same setting that it also makes orderable ( Garfinkel 1974 : 18 ) |
| 6 | THE CITY is in grave danger of being bullied into subscribing for shares in the water industry that it neither wants nor needs . |
| 7 | So we get Joseph Wright of Derby as early as 1780 painting Arkwright 's cotton mill by night — tiers of tiny yellow lights in the immemorial country darkness of the Derwent valley , the isolated forerunner of those tremendous galaxies of light that one now sees from the Pennine Moors after sundown . |
| 8 | Even music is so often used as a ‘ background noise ’ in shops and restaurants that it sometimes seems that we have forgotten how to listen to it . |
| 9 | In recognition that nobody really knows how the broadband Asynchronous Transfer Mode market will develop , L M Ericsson Telefon AB has announced a system claimed to support networks of virtually any capacity or configuration . |
| 10 | Considerably more sacrilegious , albeit in a flippant way , is Du Con qui fu fait a la besche , " Of the cunt , which was made with a spade " , in which God is presented as having forgotten to give Eve genitals and then allowing the Devil to remedy this , on the condition that he neither adds to nor takes anything away from God 's creature . |
| 11 | For Leavis , Cambridge English offers a way forward for the discipline as a whole by virtue of its emancipation from " linguistic grinds " and Anglo-Saxon , but only on condition that it now becomes infused by a " general discipline " addressed to the growth of " intelligence and sensibility " . |
| 12 | I 'm not arguing about that at all , but the people of Wheatley have a right to the same protection that everybody else has under the planning axe . |
| 13 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 14 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 15 | Is it the case that he merely dismisses those submissions with which he does not agree and proceeds in an autocratic fashion ? |
| 16 | After it has been sacrificed , the salamander 's tail wriggles about just like the lizard 's tail , but it has the additional advantage that it often contains poison glands which the killer finds pungently distasteful . |
| 17 | Aid has created such artificial divisions within what should be normal national programmes of health care or agriculture that it now obstructs the development of such programmes on a country-wide basis . |
| 18 | We have discussed the evidence for a body clock and the kinds of rhythmic change that it normally produces . |
| 19 | I therefore My Lords conclude that the Bill on this point should stand as it is and in general I strongly support my Honourable Friend the Home Secretary on the plans that he now puts before the organisation of police authorities in tackling the serious problems of law and order which we all face in this country today . |
| 20 | It occupied an entire building and was similar in capacity to the programmable pocket calculator that one now buys at the stationers . |
| 21 | It is a tribute to how far we have come already in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we can not predict . |
| 22 | What this will do is present at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with other units to secure the contracts that it ultimately undertakes at the minute . |
| 23 | Such judgements should be based on experience that one continually learns from , which leads to knowing what to expect . |
| 24 | The enclosure turned the Broyle into the landscape of ploughland bisected by long straight roads that it still remains . |
| 25 | The longer-term recovering member is able to give the newcomer a sense of identification that someone really does understand the problem from the inside and also a sense of hope that recovery is possible . |
| 26 | I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman has made an estimate of the cost impact on British business or the United Kingdom economy of the proposal that he apparently makes so glibly . |
| 27 | The fabled golden age of England that he apparently yearns for is merely his lost youth in disguise . |
| 28 | In contrast , the middle-class Bleak House admits the light and air of day through its open windows , and is so fertile in its humanity that it even gives birth to another , the ‘ rustic cottage of doll 's rooms ’ which shares its name , prepared for Esther by Mr Jarndyce on her marriage to Alan Woodcourt . |
| 29 | The operation , although nearly always refused by vets in Britain , has become so common in certain countries that it even has an official name . |
| 30 | COLON Put a colon ( : ) between two complete clauses to make them one larger sentence : The difference between Pip and the other characters appears again when we see how people deal with this : Pip continues to show Estella that he still wants her , never giving up . |