Example sentences of "that [adv] [vb base] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All you kids that just sit in line , |
| 10 | These tiny helpless little things that just come to life day by day , until they 're people . |
| 11 | We passed a few minutes in the exchanges that usually pass for conversation between people who know each other slightly and have no real business connection . |
| 12 | Solbourne 's product allows developers to create graphical user interfaces that dynamically switch between Motif and Open Look . |
| 13 | To identify proteins that directly interact with CREB we have used a protein blotting or Far Western technique to probe crude nuclear extracts from F9 cells . |
| 14 | But the whole discourse of noise-as-threat is bankrupt , positively inimical to the remnants of power that still cling to noise . |
| 15 | One must also mention the limitations that still exist for employment of females in the catering industry in the Middle East . |
| 16 | ( The top prize in this group went to a writer who also started his career in these pages , Duncan Campbell , who now regales readers of another weekly with stories of government intrigue that clearly appeal to competition judges more than do articles on technology . ) |
| 17 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 18 | Organisms of the kind that now live on Earth would die virtually instantly if they were transported beyond its protective cocoon . |
| 19 | In short , an essential step in the evolution of all the life forms that now exist on Earth , was the co-operation of two quite different kinds of molecule : nucleic acids based on nucleotides , and proteins consisting of amino acids . |
| 20 | He is absolutely right to be scornful of the pretentious organisational plans that often pass for science policy in developing countries . |
| 21 | As mentioned above , the additional property information form deals with the more complex questions that often relate to leasehold property . |
| 22 | Soft-bodied , voracious molluscs that often shelter by day beneath leaves and plant debris , and feed at night . |
| 23 | Because of the added pressures that often occur at work and in the family at midlife , people are particularly at risk of increasing their drinking at this stage . |
| 24 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 25 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 26 | The reason for the neglect of climatic consideration has been partly the relative youthfulness of the science of urban climatology , and partly the relatively weak communication links that presently exist between climatology and planning . |
| 27 | Adge King , Stephen King and Paddy McNamee are three names that readily come to mind . |
| 28 | In a word-association test , joy , gioa , Gaudium et Spes , are not terms that readily spring to mind in his connection . |
| 29 | Cute and sweet are not adjectives that readily spring to mind on surveying the stage wardrobe of Andi , the blonde frontwoman of local cover band Sunshine . |
| 30 | So erm I mean the justification for this kind of course I would claim is ultimately to try and make people more realistic about what is possible and er the , because th th the advantage of knowing what 's possible is you can avoid impossible experiments that ultimately result in disaster for everyone . |