Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that trains from distant towns had special coaches attached ( or there were even dedicated special trains ) to bring those sentenced to imprisonment for serious offences to Huntsville . |
| 2 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 3 | After the Tower Report was published in February 1987 , and the PROF notes revealed that had passed by computer between the characters , the basement became home to a band of five-o'clock-shadowed Boy Scouts delighting in their own secrecy . |
| 4 | More to the point , the West thinks that pushing NATO 's frontier to the Soviet border would , at the moment , help just the wrong people in Moscow . |
| 5 | The taxpayer argued that to rely on the substantial omissions from Mr Slade 's tax return as grounds for investigating Mr Kempton 's tax affairs was to imply guilt by association . |
| 6 | Opponents argued that teaching other languages , especially those spoken at home , would impede the ability of children to speak and write English . |
| 7 | A solid forward base and sound defence is not enough , because it 's try points that count at no-time . |
| 8 | Of the Persil soap powder offers that enabled two passengers to travel for the fare of one and of the utter complexity of offers and restrictions that taxed the ingenuity of many booking clerks and ticket collectors until the Blue ( cheaper ) and White ( all Fridays and occasional other days ) Savers were standardised as BR 's on the whole highly successful marketing tool against coach competition . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the system of brick flues that runs under the entire floor of the caldarium — the hot room of the baths — to circulate the hot air from the furnace . |
| 10 | Jakarta 's Governor Wiyogo Atmordarminto insists that to drive a becak is a degrading occupation , considering Indonesia 's level of development . |
| 11 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 12 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 13 | All authorities agreed that adding the substance to water was the best way to limit the daily dosage . |
| 14 | In 1954 , for example , Galton and Simpson created Hancock 's Half Hour on radio : satirical playlets about the pale squalor of outer-suburban life that launched a series of tiny exercises in comic realism to replace the music-hall turns that had once dominated the BBC Light Programme : an earthy , irreverent spirit of realistic comedy translated into visual terms in 1960 , when Granada TV started Coronation Street as a comic reflection , for mass audiences , of back-street life in the urban North . |
| 15 | To remedy this , they designed a motor in the driver 's wiper pivot that increases pressure on the screen as the car increases its speed . |
| 16 | GOLFBREAKS HOLIDAYS THAT SUIT YOU TO A TEE |
| 17 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 18 | Sir Ivor Jennings once said " If Parliament enacts that smoking in the streets of Paris is an offence then , in the eyes of the English Courts , it is an offence . " |
| 19 | It will inevitably be a political process but it will be a more informed political judgement , the reformers claim , than the pure bargaining process that preceded it . |
| 20 | ( Other accounts suggest that Marenches probably had much less difficulty in obtaining the monarchs agreement than he maintains . ) |
| 21 | It would be inappropriate if the COB Rules regulated that exempted business merely because the firm was a member of SFA for other activities . |
| 22 | The 1981 census found that compared with the national average of 14% , inner urban areas have particularly heavy concentrations of lone parent families . |
| 23 | But the experts say that has to start with the teenage nation . |
| 24 | Certainly there is plenty in the literature about using cobalt-60 sources for sterilisation and DoE researchers found that spent reactor fuel rods did the job quite effectively .. |
| 25 | Birds of paradise skins that had been prepared in the traditional way by natives of Papua New Guinea had had their legs removed ; for a considerable time even respectable scientists thought there might be a land where birds never settled . |
| 26 | Thus it is plausible to view science as an enormous cluster of innovations , of which the most successful are diffused by means of a contagion process that produces a logistic curve in all facets of scientific activity . ’ |
| 27 | Its crust was already thick and rigid enough to hold open huge basins as early as 4.2 x 109 years ago ; and the great floods of mare basalt that filled the basins apparently ceased to erupt about 3.1 x 109 years ago . |
| 28 | ‘ Equalization of lifetime income profiles ’ concerns inequalities in lifetime income growth and involves developing career income profiles that rise with age . |
| 29 | This time it was the specialist defence press that placed the construction of military adaptation on the venture . |
| 30 | As with Auer 's lace , the verisimilitude was striking and The Times reported that touch alone could convince the beholder that the minutely detailed weeds with their infinitely varied tints were not actual specimens from the sea shore.2 |