Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most amateur gardeners are ‘ afraid of the knife ’ and do not prune hard enough , leaving too much old wood , with the result that the growth buds that grow on are at the top end of 3 or 4 or more inches ( 8 or 10 or more cm ) of the previous season 's growth . |
| 2 | Since reorganization , however , as we have seen , many of the new colleges of higher education have turned to the CNAA for validation , a process that has not been without its stresses and strains . |
| 3 | Soil : The favourite growing medium for waterlilies is heavy garden soil that has not been in contact with insecticides or weed killers . |
| 4 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 5 | words certainly do go out , you forget , when you go to use a word that has n't been in use sometime and the younger person says to you what does that mean ? |
| 6 | ‘ No , not like anything that has ever been in the world before . ’ |
| 7 | Planning in the railways has traditionally had an important political dimension that has sometimes been at odds with its use as an internal business tool . |
| 8 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 9 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |
| 10 | Changes over time also indicate that living alone is on the increase as a feature of old age : the General Household Survey ( OPCS , 1985 ) shows that in 1973 , 40 per cent of those aged 75 and over lived alone ; ten years later the figure was 47 per cent . |
| 11 | Kelly jumped Captive Audience off smartly , glancing back to check that Shine On was with her . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State claims that opting out is in the best interests of patients . |
| 13 | Filled with shock of a kind that had not been with him since the actor-manager 's first refusal , Paul took himself out into the snow . |
| 14 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
| 15 | Emily had taken her revenge swiftly , severing the ties that had long been between the Grenfells and the Morgans . |
| 16 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 17 | His father 's four mahogany filing-cabinets from Primrose Cottage were there , in pairs against two walls , between glass-fronted bookcases that had always been in the room . |
| 18 | There was a book that had always been in Primrose Cottage , a thick book with a torn green dust-jacket . |
| 19 | For somebody that had never been in sales before you remember a lot from the course |
| 20 | We 've been in touch with all the local schools in the in the Mansfield area er we 've followed up inquiries of girls that have not been at school and so on and er these er have led to er to nothing . |
| 21 | ‘ You , that have not been near me all day , and would n't have been if I was dying ! ’ |
| 22 | Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point . |
| 23 | These are questions that have long been of concern . |
| 24 | Thanks to records above all we are no longer in danger of forgetting such joyous Purcell inspirations as this , pieces that have always been in danger of dropping out of the repertory simply for being ‘ occasional music . ’ |
| 25 | ( It will be clear that PHOTOGRAPHY NOW gives no special favouritism to work from Britain — but our belief that work here is at a very impressive pitch of creativity is echoed internationally , judging from the exhibitions and other attention from around the world , and much of the Museum 's collection can be found in the Aperture publication BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY : TOWARDS A BIGGER PICTURE , published in New York in November 1988 ) . " |