Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 2 | In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin . |
| 3 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 4 | She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again . |
| 5 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 6 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 7 | The growth of quangos fits in with the idea that the burden on ministers could be eased if government departments concentrated on the development of policy and ‘ hived off ’ large blocs of routine administration . |
| 8 | You need to structure it in a way that fits in with the argument that you 're go the line of argument you 're going to be putting before the magistrate . |
| 9 | It usually goes along with the claim that the ‘ technical ’ division of labour , i.e. the actual distribution of tasks , is in some sense subordinate to the social division . |
| 10 | Well , immediately on the left there 's a door an and the hall goes along by the path that you , you come up to that door . |
| 11 | Many mujaheddin leaders were reported to be abroad and it was thought that Mujjaddedi , leader of the smallest mujaheddin group as well as of an influential Sufi brotherhood , was trying to delay stepping down in the hope that on their return they would support his continuation in office . |
| 12 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't cash in on the fact that you know I — I 'm susceptible to you . |
| 14 | Or are we going to go along with the priorities that our non-Christian friends have ? |
| 15 | He concluded that the approach was ‘ too heavily fictionalized ’ to go down with an audience that was having to deal with the everyday realities of war . |
| 16 | Fortunately , Luke 's anger seemed to have evaporated along with the steam that surrounded them . |
| 17 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |
| 18 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 19 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 20 | Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place . |
| 21 | Tell her you know how she feels , but do n't give in to her demands , as she 'll soon latch on to the idea that throwing a tantrum gets her what she wants . |
| 22 | And , as consolation Marje , you really can hang on to the hope that as he was the secret true love of your life , perhaps you were the secret true love of his . |
| 23 | Or should they hang on in the hope that these assets will soon be worth serious money ? |
| 24 | At bottom then there was some democratic basis for the Unionist case , for the government was pressing on with a reform that they knew was not backed by the electorate . |
| 25 | At Hamilton Terrace Minton used as his studio and bedroom an airy ground-floor room with french windows opening on to a balcony that overlooked the large garden . |
| 26 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 27 | When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris . |
| 28 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 29 | Home in on a cause that you can do something about . |
| 30 | A new board is voted in on the promise that they 'll get a better deal . |