Example sentences of "that [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 2 | ‘ Or maybe I 'm a fruitarian bat , ’ said Marina , laughing , ‘ the one that got turned down for every Drac film because she would n't suck blood . |
| 3 | That is bad news , and threatens a continuation of the debilitating battle between the government and the parliament that has dragged on since last November . |
| 4 | In fact , it 's a term that could be aptly used to describe that whole flowery genre of catch-all fiddle-and-flute pop that has sprouted up in this country since Mike Scott first became an executive member of An Bord lascaigh Mhara . |
| 5 | Mr Mohamed Al Fayed thus obliged a leading French newspaper to substantiate , by implication , a grand version of his personal history that has turned out to be false . ’ |
| 6 | Light dawns on the small Year Niner 's face as she hastens to explain that the stain on the front of her school blouse is jam that has squirted out of her break-time doughnut , and not blood at all . |
| 7 | Since the first edition of this book both the Matrimonial Homes ( Co-ownership ) Bill introduced in the House of Lords in 1980 ( which would have made provision for statutory co-ownership of the matrimonial home ) and the Land Registration of Law of Property Bill ( affecting the practice that has grown up following the case of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland ) [ 1981 ] AC 487 ) have failed . |
| 8 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 9 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 10 | Off-worlders are restricted to the spaceport and the small city that has grown up around it , but that was all right . |
| 11 | In a lifetime they have gone from a self-assured majority to a beleaguered minority , strangely distanced from the city that has grown up around them . |
| 12 | While appreciating the sophistication and fluidity of de Gaulle 's conceptions , one can not overlook the extreme reactions they provoked at the time or the extensive and mostly critical academic literature that has grown up around them since then . |
| 13 | The capital that has grown up around the old village of Muscat is a place of broad roads , shops , trees and flowers , imposing offices and graceful buildings in great variety . |
| 14 | This highlights perhaps the major difference between BR and RENFE in the way the machinery is used and the culture of industrial relations that has grown up around it : the handling of individual grievances . |
| 15 | One of the reasons that Britain habitually trails in this sort of event is the culture of dogged amateurism that has grown up in recent years . |
| 16 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 17 | Given the losses and a circulation that has fallen back to 540,000 , in third place in the race behind the Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph , a premium price could not be expected . |
| 18 | The heart of the economic matter is whether the government will insist on collecting more money than it spends , so that it can reduce the mountain of public debt that has piled up since 1980 ( see chart 1 ) . |
| 19 | Now , with the same director , part of the original company , and an influx of the new wave of circus talent that has surged up from the streets something magical has happened . |
| 20 | Other than the exemptions described above , tax has to be paid on any capital gain that has built up on an asset you give away during your lifetime . |
| 21 | I feel his glare now , but let my own eyes wander past the fence to the yellow lattice of the heavy lifting gear and the big iron disc of the magnet hanging down , and the motorcar-mountain that has built up over the holiday season . |
| 22 | Meconium is the foal 's faecal material that has built up in the rectum before foaling and sometimes gets quite firm and impacted and must be passed within the first 24-hours of life . |
| 23 | Another slight problem is that when the filters are cleaned , much of the bacteria colony that has built up in the foam could be washed away . |
| 24 | Spring-cleaning , repainting and clearing out cupboards can all be good ways of dispelling any unpleasant or heavy atmosphere that has built up in the home . |
| 25 | So , Oshkosh 92 truly lived up to the legend that has built up around this event , there was indeed something to interest and captivate anyone with an interest in aviation . |
| 26 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 27 | Hon. Members will have an opportunity to debate the Bill , but , whatever happens , it is far better to have a system that is more accountable to local people and that will , we hope , put an end to some of the ridiculous mismanagement , inefficiency and wasting of money that has gone on for far too long . |
| 28 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 29 | In the face of this central problem , the valuable work that has gone on in recent years in narratology , and other aspects of fictional form , is curiously difficult to apply in practice . |
| 30 | ‘ You tend to forget all the hard work that has gone in over the season . |