Example sentences of "that [verb] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an update of the story on the second anniversary of the disaster , Barron 's , the American business magazine , quoted Vincent Cannistraro 's dismissal of Juval Aviv 's Interfor Report as ‘ absolute nonsense ’ , and the more recent NBC and ABC newscasts that shared some of its conclusions as ‘ total rubbish and fabrication , . |
| 2 | These ‘ ideas , formed the basis for group action and it is the way in which these spontaneously evolve and are carried out that constitutes one of the most active elements of ‘ hanging about ’ … |
| 3 | The unknown adds spice to the adventure whether it is a relative newcomer 's first trip to windsurf on the sea , or a move to a place that produces more of a challenge with better waves for an aspiring expert . |
| 4 | He was coming up to his twenty-seventh birthday and his face had already acquired some of the lived-in look that became one of his characteristics later in his career . |
| 5 | He had n't sounded very pleased about something — that made two of them . |
| 6 | She closed the lid ; when the catch failed to operate , she slammed it a second time with a violence that made several of the slumberers lift their heads . |
| 7 | LADY Arran , a 71-year-old countess with a penchant for speed , put Britain back in the record books yesterday with a storming run in a hydroplane that made light of choppy conditions at the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont , Nottingham . |
| 8 | She came out of the cubicle to find a woman in a figure-hugging red dress , with a plunging neckline that revealed most of her tanned bosom , repairing her lipstick in the mirror above one of the washbasins . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been found guilty of a breathtaking fraud that cheated thousands of people . |
| 10 | Similarly the melting that produced most of the erupted lavas resulted in a limited and/or systematic fractionation of Sm/Nd . |
| 11 | The drums and percussion section of orchestral recordings lack their customary undernourished bass and tizzy top-end — a reversal of the traditional finding with compact disc — and the strong pulse that underpins music as varied as Bach 's Violin Concertos and Stravinsky ballets ( both well represented in the test programme ) was captured with a power and ‘ snap ’ that make many of the Ariston 's closest price competitors sound feeble . |
| 12 | Nationalized industries tend to be much more capital-intensive than the rest of the economy , and it is precisely the presence of these large capital costs that generates the economies of scale that make many of these industries natural monopolies . |
| 13 | Once again the train loops inland through moors that make those of Lewis look like playparks . |
| 14 | Despite an awful muddy sound that renders much of Chuck 's vocal incoherent , ‘ Rebel ’ still sounds uniquely pugilistic — a crucial call to arms that never fails to move . |
| 15 | Despite an awful muddy sound that renders much of Chuck 's vocal incoherent , ‘ Rebel ’ still sounds uniquely pugilistic — a crucial call to arms that never fails to move . |
| 16 | The story of Bosnia seems to me to be a betrayal that involves all of us , all Europe ; a betrayal of something unique and valuable and worth defending . |
| 17 | It was the process of his metamorphosis from a 33-year-old into a 121-year-old that got most of the film 's pre-publicity . |
| 18 | It was almost prophetic in its wisdom : ‘ There is really something morbid about the film as a whole — a fascination , almost a wallowing in death and suffering that represents one of the least appealing tendencies in the audience as well as the film-makers . |
| 19 | Typically , Sulawesi , the island that defies many of Wallace 's rules of animal distribution , has two hornbill species of its own . |
| 20 | He constantly ignored Bolingbroke 's maxim that Members of Parliament are like hounds that grow fond of the leader ‘ who shows them game and by whose halloo they are used to be encouraged . ’ |
| 21 | There should have been a better backcloth , something that smacked more of the dramatic and less of the bare ordinariness of these humble homes . |
| 22 | The reason it 's in this format , is this is now the national standard form of accounts for social services , and the thinking behind it is , whether you were an authority that provided all of its services directly at one extreme , or at the other extreme , you were in a party that provided no direct services , and bought them all in from other providers , you would still need to meet , to meet those costs . |
| 23 | If we 're right , he also loathed the complete destruction of Stalinvast — even though he co-operated with Obispal in kindling the hydra , a task that cost millions of lives . ’ |
| 24 | The Somme dragged on through July , a futile and terrible battle of attrition that cost hundreds of thousands of lives , through Aubers Ridge , Delville Wood , where the Cameronians had a section of trench they called Buchanan Street , and into a dreadful September , when Haig decided to try and break through on the Somme with a secret weapon , the tank . |
| 25 | FastPort will give your printers the plug and play functionality of printers that cost thousands of dollars more . |
| 26 | Soft acid waters , from the peaty hills that supply much of Britain 's water , are eating into the iron water mains of many towns . |
| 27 | The main determinant of territory size in predators is the resource dispersal in the territory , the distribution of the productive areas that supply most of the food for the predators ' hunting area . |
| 28 | There were only about a hundred Cotswold sheep left and a few bloodlines.It was vital to save the breed that created much of our wealth . |
| 29 | MNU — This is the file that contains all of the menu options . |
| 30 | A guide that covers three of the Soviet Union 's largest cities , packed with maps , colour illustrations and information on the history , architecture and key sites of these glorious cities . |