Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] a [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did not have enough heart or bravery around the penalty area where it matters most against a team that was committed and strong . |
| 2 | Something vulnerable in her manner brings out an element of sadism in the way the long final act teases her endurance ; but it also makes the denouement extremely touching , and the part lies well for a voice that has managed Janacek 's Capture as well as Verdi 's Violetta . |
| 3 | So often the preacher has an idea that he feels strongly about , and he then casts around for a scripture that seems to fit his message . |
| 4 | It is not official information , it is better that it goes directly to a department that can deal with it . |
| 5 | This leads directly to a situation that you should avoid . |
| 6 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 7 | Anyone in the building can breathe and move but is unable to see any thing , so the theory is that he wanders clueless in a cloud until the security-squad charges in with a chemical that breaks the foam up . |
| 8 | The product sounds exactly like a sketch that Amstrad issued at the launch of the PDA , and which was described as a possible future direction . |
| 9 | NT is , however , compliant with Posix 1003.1 base functions but it gets there via a subsystem that does not integrate with the Windows environment and Windows applications are not Posix-compliant . |
| 10 | She barely has time to recover before Nina Myskow breezes in with a smile that makes her look like a 10-year-old ( a ten-year-old Stilton , that is ) , hurls her customary , ‘ Hello , you old bag , ’ and her reflection kisses the air beside my cheek . |
| 11 | This fear derives more from a recognition that they often lack the additional personal qualities which they see as necessary for certain types of work , which is why most policemen are reluctant to deal with rape victims or to undertake community and neighbourhood policing . |
| 12 | We show here that one of the DNA strands of this PPT element , previously termed 71/72 , binds specifically to a protein that is present in protein extracts prepared from rat tissue or adult rat ganglia in culture but absent in established cell lines . |
| 13 | I also have a personal interest in seeing that the development goes ahead in a way that will only enhance the town . ’ |
| 14 | The council does , however , bring a disciplinary case against a doctor who , having decided to practice a particular form of medicine or to carry out a particular procedure , does so in a way that can be shown to have been irresponsible , or unnecessarily hazardous to one or more patients , because the doctor has failed to exercise a proper standard of professional care ; the council also brings a disciplinary case when a doctor makes outrageous and false claims regarding the efficacy of a particular form of treatment . |
| 15 | And it has the secondary virtue that it destroys a prevalent type of sceptical move , and does so in a way that explains the attraction of that move . |
| 16 | The poor boy , who resembles Philip Roth , tells the story in which he takes part , and does so in a manner that can be considered uncontroversial . |
| 17 | To this extent the theory can be seen as incorporating the central feature of Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) interpretation of the phenomenon — the suggestion that further learning proceeds slowly about a stimulus that has formed associations with its antecedents . |
| 18 | Maybe that comes in with a hat that says , Authoritarian , disciplined type of interview . |
| 19 | In fact , the godfather of gloom comes up with a plot that takes in Windsor Davies ( the ghost of sitcoms past ) , a bathtub and a big box of concentrated jelly . |
| 20 | ‘ If someone comes out with a car that looks like ours , that has the same windscreen , a roll bar in the same position and so on , that did not happen by accident . |
| 21 | It 's that stuff that comes out of a tin that 's very rich |