Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [that] [vb mod] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reality husbands demand meals at specific times , small children cry when their stomachs are empty , the hour that might be spent cooking competes with the hour that ought to be spent washing the floor or changing the beds . |
| 2 | He could just make out the railway embankment from here , but not the station or the building that used to be the Turk 's Head . |
| 3 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 4 | Built in 1903 it has bronze and marble panels in an Art Nouveau style depicting the friars from the monastery that used to be on the site . |
| 5 | I could see the socks inside the trainers — they were Dayglo green , the sort that used to be in fashion years ago — and they kept walking towards me . |
| 6 | Pat has sketched the jig that ought to be used when punching holes . |
| 7 | Great Britain is the richest empire on the globe : she has one imperial metropolis , and one small quarter of the general capital devoted to her public offices ; if , therefore , there are any ten acres on the globe that ought to be covered with externally imposing and conveniently constructed public edifices , they are those adjoining Whitehall . |
| 8 | They 've changed all the things that used to be just because they know Like form twos always used to have an end of term leaving party . |
| 9 | ‘ the relationship that used to be called that of master and servant . |
| 10 | Assisting with the creation of a viable payments union in the area that used to be described as the Soviet Union would be the single most important contribution that the Twelve could make to that unstable and dangerous part of the world . |
| 11 | There was the the cod liver what would for animals , that well , the method that used to be used , put it into the copper boiler . |
| 12 | All the beauty that ought to be but rarely is , all the promises of perfection are caught in a few moments of that iridescent light . |
| 13 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 14 | Did your grandparents mention any other parts of the glen that used to used away back in time that are just ruins now ? |
| 15 | erm And of course there 's a great deal of history which is now being written which is much more exciting than most of the history that used to be written in the past . |
| 16 | I know that he has first-hand experience of the benefits of GM schools , as the school that used to be known as Wold Newton transferred to grant-maintained status a few months ago and is showing the way and what can be achieved as a result of a move to grant-maintained status . |
| 17 | ‘ You remember the crucifix that used to be there ? |
| 18 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 19 | The hardest task for his subordinates is to decide what the phrase ( now often shortened to NWO and not to be confused with the airline that used to be called Northwest Orient ) might mean . |
| 20 | It is a spectacularly successful conjuring trick that capitalism in the West has pulled off : with one hand cutting down on paid labour by encouraging people to regard the jobs that used to be done by other workers as new forms of leisure , whilst with the other hand establishing new ( and more profitable ) economic sectors around voluntary pastoral care , such as care for the elderly . |
| 21 | In other words , they 're taking a lot of the task that used to be given to manufacturers away from them and so manufacturers today are not by and large so concerned with manufacturing brands which are their own and will sit on retailers ' shelves as with providing a product for a retailer who wants to construct his own brand . |
| 22 | Joe 's behaviour can also be s\described as mildly odd : his fear of returning to prison shows in his encouragement of the local children to play policeman games , telling them he will put bad boys into his private jail , and a sense of contrition over the faulty aircraft parts means he can not bear having anything the house that ought to be thrown away . |
| 23 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 24 | There are further curbs on union activity to think up , a pastime that used to be popular but now looks merely gratuitous . |
| 25 | I feel like a Polo Mint , a thick , brittle wall surrounding a void that used to be me . |
| 26 | It 's that picture of a cat that used to be on Marie 's wall . |
| 27 | he wer a big fan of Real Madrid tha knows , that s where all white strip came from I wer a ball boy at Elland Road between 1972–74 ( its when they were building the kop to replace the mound a muck that used to be the Gelderd end ) . |
| 28 | I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quarters of the wo , three quarters of the people on the news desk are now women . |
| 29 | I used to know a Pekinese that used to er pinch everybody 's flower pots everybo all over the neighbourhood . |
| 30 | street in central London ; name derived from a chain that used to be thrown across the roadway to prevent its use during divine service in St Paul 's Cathedral . |