Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank of England reserves the right to decline to accept bids that it judges to be out of line with market conditions even if this should mean that it does not sell all stock on offer . |
| 2 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 3 | Oh aye you get to know people that you 've for years and years . |
| 4 | Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart . |
| 5 | As much as I hate comparative reviews — I can never really justify deifying one package at the expense of several other perfectly good packages — WSWIN has facilities that I find to be very attractive and useful . |
| 6 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 7 | Challenge cases that you disagree with . |
| 8 | He went home with a single man whose mantelpiece was crowded with framed family photos — partners , holidays , weddings , babies , graduations , christenings ; the man ( who was gorgeous ) told Boy that he worked in a photo processing lab , and that none of the photos were of his own family or lovers , but were all stolen . |
| 9 | ‘ I told Harry that you went to the police with the tape from the answering machine . |
| 10 | Dr John Stewart , Director of Recruitment and Admissions , told Campus that he continues to be greatly encouraged by the interest shown overseas in Stirling 's undergraduate and postgraduate courses . |
| 11 | Philip Leapor told Freemantle that he worked for the Blencowe family for five years following his daughter 's birth . |
| 12 | To meet this development section 17(2) was inserted into the Act and provides that where an application is made for an interlocutory injunction and the party against whom it is sought claims that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall , in exercising its discretion whether or not to grant the injunction , have regard to the likelihood of that party 's succeeding at the trial of the action in establishing the matter which would afford a defence under the Act . |
| 13 | Betty Maitland very obligingly looked up Danny Ram on the payroll ( his name was actually Danyatai Ram ) and told Robyn that he worked in the foundry . |
| 14 | We shall remember words that he used in an interview with The Independent : ’ If we have changed our mind to win we can change our mind when we have won . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , she does look better , ’ replied Melissa , thinking that the return of Rodney 's jacket must have convinced Eleanor that he had at last been eliminated from police enquiries . |
| 16 | For a start , they argue , America has already told Jordan that it wants to be friends again ( watch to see if America leans on Israel to be more accommodating to Jordan 's need for water ) . |
| 17 | For example , we have found that we can make good businesses by selling services that we developed for use in our own company . |
| 18 | Amid an increasingly confused situation the central government in Madrid and the Generalitat in Barcelona found themselves facing demands that they distribute to UGT and CNT members arms with which to resist ‘ fascism ’ . |
| 19 | Theorists are very stimulated by sort of quite interesting and new ideas of concept because ultimately a lot of theorists like sort of to be intellectually challenged they like things that they need to really sort of stretch their minds . |
| 20 | But I know somebody who is like it That 's the sort of thing you say , no I 'm not like that , but I know people that I work with who are like it . |
| 21 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 22 | He was different from them , did n't eat in the kitchen with us , but had my mother bake him potatoes and grate carrots that he ate in the isolation of the dining room . |
| 23 | So my skin began to look better , my guts were giving a great , big heartfelt vote of thanks , but I went on losing weight that it seemed to me I could ill afford to lose . |
| 24 | In contrast to the position in the UK , it is settled law that there exists in the US , at common law , a private right of action for insider trading violations in breach of Rule 10b-5 on impersonal stock exchange markets . |
| 25 | This account , though it applies much more widely , is essentially the same as an explanation of these social phenomena which goes back at least to Hume , who accounted for ‘ the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty in women ’ by referring to the naturally greater disposition of males to protect children that they believe to be their own . |
| 26 | He spoke with the sort of quietly threatening tone that you ignored at your peril . |
| 27 | He told him of his experience and was interested to know that the phenomenon is by no means unknown and the other went on to relate another incident involving footsteps that he heard outside the office , but when he opened the door to investigate no one was there . |
| 28 | In the emotionally charged pieces that he wrote from the war front , Nizan pointed up the inescapable fact that the future of France was being decided on the soil of Spain . |
| 29 | The electronic and acoustic weapons systems of bats , which we discussed in Chapter 2 , have all the finely tuned sophistication that we expect from the end-products of a long arms race . |
| 30 | In simple terms , the surgeon supervises and controls the robot from a computer terminal , using information that he receives from sensors at the tool-end of the robot , known as the end-effector . |