Example sentences of "[that] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man that rarely smiles on camera , dresses like crap and is quietly emerging as the biggest sex-symbol despite-everything since Roland Rivron . |
| 2 | Five items from the Christmas Numbers that properly belong with Christmas Stories were included : ‘ The Poor Relation 's Story ’ , ‘ The Child 's Story ’ , ‘ The Schoolboy 's Story ’ , ‘ Nobody 's Story ’ , and ‘ A Christmas Tree ’ — see under their respective titles for these pieces . |
| 3 | Blue Boar was dropped and replaced by Blue Steel Mk 1 , an inertially guided cruise missile with a range of 100 nautical miles that eventually came into service with the V Force in 1962 as part of Britain 's Independent Nuclear Deterrent . |
| 4 | They are able to take in chemicals and convert them into usable energy and to synthesize all the components of the cell during growth that eventually leads to cell multiplication . |
| 5 | Should they be seen as the overall enforcers of the regulations , or should they merely be ombudsmen or watchdogs that only act on customer complaints ? |
| 6 | ‘ Your spy ? ’ she gibed , recalling that Cavell had been with her when another DJ had telephoned to ask her out to a street market that only operated at night . |
| 7 | This does not seem to have succeeded any more than had an earlier regulation that only waste from timber cut with axe or adze was " lawful " , not sawn timber . |
| 8 | Exercise on this level will calm the mind , improve digestion and increase the metabolic rate of the body , enabling us to detoxify and provide the vitality that only comes with balance . |
| 9 | For the serious enthusiasts , this was an opportunity to track down that long sought after plant . |
| 10 | For the serious enthusiasts , this was an opportunity to track down that long sought after plant . |
| 11 | He 's a floating penguin that literally toots with joy when he is pushed down under the water . |
| 12 | Rentokil and Retail Cleaning is not a partnership that naturally springs to mind . |
| 13 | In their natural state , such lands are characterised by large herds of herbivores that seasonally migrate in tune with biomass availability , so it is not surprising that overgrazing and land degradation ensue . |
| 14 | Neglect yourself and self-doubt begins to creep in and that swiftly turns to depression . |
| 15 | Women do not actually sound like children , and men sound even less like Great Danes — except in the light of a culturally-mediated analogy that already trades on sexism . |
| 16 | Article 2 , which sets out the general areas of workers ' rights , simply spells out many rights that already exist in law , or have been present in well-unionised work places for years before Thatcherism . |
| 17 | The development of high quality open learning texts is expensive and those that already exist in chemistry have in major part been produced using public funds . |
| 18 | If people are exposed to the variety of opinions that normally exist in relation to any major issue , the likelihood of their being easily manipulated by unscrupulous opinion-makers is greatly reduced . |
| 19 | The economic base to garage servicing ( following O'Brien , Motor Magazine , 10th September 1977 ) lacks two conditions that normally operate in pricing : the first is that consumers should have speedy knowledge of defects in what they buy ; the second that they are free to move from an unsatisfactory supplier to a more satisfactory one . |
| 20 | All you kids that just sit in line , |
| 21 | I mean reading as to be put in a context and a context that is , in fact , enjoyable to the child , not something that just happens at school that they have to do , hence one they go to school the value of parents hearing the children read , because then the parent is also involved and one does n't get this split between home and school . |
| 22 | I mean reading as to be put in a context and a context that is , in fact , enjoyable to the child , not something that just happens at school that they have to do , hence one they go to school the value of parents hearing the children read , because then the parent is also involved and one does n't get this split between home and school . |
| 23 | Similarly , in the case of the universe , could it be that we are living in a region that just happens by chance to be smooth and uniform ? |
| 24 | These tiny helpless little things that just come to life day by day , until they 're people . |
| 25 | MAI Systems Corp , the Irvine , California maker of small business computers that just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ( CI No 2,147 ) , listed $26.1m in assets and $145.0m in liabilities ; Brooke Group Ltd , which is controlled by MAI chairman Bennett LeBow , owns 82.3% of MAI 's voting securities ; the largest unsecured creditor listed in the filing was Chemical Trust Co. of California , trustee for $40m of 11.75% senior subordinated debentures ; the obligations listed for most of the other creditors were mostly for $4m or less . |
| 26 | ANDREW SMITH 'S TIP : The nest of this fish is a rather tatty affair that soon falls into disrepair and if there is not enough plant material to fix to , can develop into a vast platform of bubbles . |
| 27 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 28 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |
| 29 | Recent surveys find 80% of Americans in favour , though the proportion drops when they are offered the alternative of a life imprisonment that genuinely means for life . |
| 30 | It 's emerged that further cuts in defence spending are being considered including reducing the number of senior officers and ministry of defence civil servants . |